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Lotteries Grant Received
12 October 2011

The FWGP have been successful in an application to Lotterywest for funding to support promotional material. The Grant of $4,653 will go towards the development of bookmarks, brochures, a CD and a DVD.

2011 Annual General Meeting
30 August 2011

The FWGP held a very successful AGM on the 23rd Spetmber 2011. Allan Burbudge gave a delightful presentation on the history of the Western Ground Parrot and efforts into its recovery with many great historical photos. Anne Bondin also launched the Tax Deductible status of the WGP Recovery Fund. The details of new committee members are contained in the 2011 AGM Minutes. Further information is contained in the Chairpersons Report as well as the Financial Report and Appendix.

2011 Annual General Meeting
30 August 2011

The Friends of the Western Ground Parrot will be holding their Annual General Meeting at the South Coast NRM offices at 39 Mercer Road in Albany, commencing at 2.30pm on the 23rd September, 2011. The Minutes and Agenda are available to download. The WGP committee are inviting nominations for new committee members, nomination forms are available for download.

The AGM will be combined with a launch of the newly acquired Tax Deductible status and a special guest speaker: Allan Burbidge, Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Environment and Conservation, who has been involved with Western Ground Parrot research for well over twenty years. We Hope to see you there.

Tax Deductible Status Received
20 June 2011

The Friends of the Western Ground Parrot applied to the Australian Government some time ago to become a tax deductible gift recipient and has just recently received notification of it successful application. This will soon be reflected in a change in the fundraising page through the link to the Give Now website that the friends have set up. Once this has been completed, another new item will be posted both on the home page and here.

Fitz survey completed
9 June 2011

A nine-day field survey trip to Fitzgerald River National Park was completed on 1 June. The goal was to survey two sites with the park. These sites have been surveyed many times, the last time being autumn 2010. We are happy to report that the number of Western Ground Parrots at each of these sites appeared to be very comparable to the results of last year's survey. Although there has been no perceivable increase in the small population at each site,  neither has there been a decrease. Short and infrequent calls by the birds made our task difficult. The survey was supervised by Abby Berryman of the DEC Western Ground Parrot Recovery Project and run by the Friends of the Western Ground Parrot. Travel and camping costs for the five volunteers were subsidised by a DEC community grant, administered by the Friends group.
Brenda Newbey, Trip Leader

Website to undergo update
23 May 2011

The FWGP committee is in the process of giving the website a revamp. this is likely to take some time but you will begin to notice small changes starting to occur. For instance the index page now has a scrolling news reel where we will endeavour to post  new information and news items as they become available.

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