Conservation Enterprises Unlimited :: Hopkins River Restoration Projects

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Little Desert Nature Lodge Combining financial, marketing, visitor experience, sustainable design and environmental management skills into one dedicated team, we are working closely in partnership with Third Ecology Architects and the Little Desert Flora and Fauna Foundation to develop a Master Plan for the Lodge.

This oasis in the desert has been recently purchased by the Foundation as an education and accommodation centre. With our help, it will soon be positioned as one of southern Australia's "must-see" ecotourism destinations.
Glenelg Hopkins CMA Following the success of our work rehabilitating the Hopkins River, the Glenelg Hopkins Catchment Management Authority approached us to deliver additional benefits to the region.

By working with farmers to plan and install stock-watering reticulation systems, we have removed the need for stock to access the river. Additional native trees will also be planted as part of this project, further enhancing the river's biodiversity values and providing windbreaks for stock and attracting birds back to the farms.

The Hopkins River now has an even greater chance of recovering from many years of neglect.
University of Tasmania FoundationWe are working with the University's Foundation to identify international interest in Tasmanian Devils and to secure substantial resources to be used to create large-scale insurance populations outside Tasmania.

The Australian and Tasmanian governments and the University of Tasmania are partners in the official "Save the Tasmanian Devil" program. Researchers are working to understand the transmissible cancer that threatens to wipe this well-loved marsupial from the face of the earth.
City & Nature InstituteThe Korean City and Nature Institute conducts a range of programs in Korea with a special emphasis on the delicate marine and coastal ecosystems that support so much of the country's commerce and culture.

When the Institute was considering the development of a community-based coastal education and interpretation centre, they turned to Conservation Enterprises Unlimited's marine education and interpretation specialists to provide advice and case studies on proven physical and programmatic models.
Conservation Volunteers AustraliaWe have designed, and manage, the Wild Futures program for Conservation Volunteers in Australia and New Zealand.

Through Wild Futures, corporate partners can support the recovery of threatened species by combining financial contributions with staff volunteering in locations known to be important for threatened wildlife. Conservation Volunteers is one of Australasia's largest forces in practical conservation activities.
Wild CarbonWild Carbon is an climate repair program with a wild twist: it reconnects and re-establishes native forests to give hope and homes to wildlife in need.

Conservation Enterprises Unlimited has created and operates Wild Carbon to provide a value-added alternative to traditional carbon offset products. Our Wild Carbon program will help wildlife in Australia, Mexico, Brazil and the USA - and give organisations an opportunity to do something truly restorative with their carbon.
Hopkins River Recovery A part of our Wild Carbon initiative and in partnership with Conservation Volunteers, this revitalisation project is restoring kilometres of the Hopkins River across three farms and will connect wildlife to habitat in the Cobra Killuc wildlife reserve.

Having suffered extensive damage from cattle and sheep, fertilisers, significant soil erosion and loss of native vegetation, the Hopkins is one of Victoria's least healthy rivers. The project is partly funded by the Australian Government through the Mallee Catchment Management Authority.
NAFTA - CEC The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is an international organization created by Canada, Mexico and the United States under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC). At the request of the CEC, Conservation Enterprises Unlimited staff coordinated the development of the North American Conservation Action Plan (NACAP) for Pacific leatherback turtles.

This NACAP, developed for the Pacific leatherback sea turtle resulted from a trinational workshop hosted by the CEC in San Francisco, California, in March 2004.
Australia-Korea Foundation Working in partnership with the Korea Ocean Research and Development Instutute, Conservation Enterprises Unlimited staff developed and implemented a series of workshops in Seoul, Ansan and Sogwipo, focussing on best-practice design of education and ecotourism experiences to benefit Korea's sensitive nearshore environments.
Corner Inlet & Nooramunga Conservation Enterprises Unlimited was commissioned by the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority to identify essential conservation needs of the Corner Inlet and Nooramunga catchment, to facilitate discussion and planning among the catchment community and to develop the first Strategic Directions Statement for Corner Inlet and Nooramunga Catchment.

Our processes and the products of this work have formed a model that is already being used by catchment planners in other locations.
The Ocean Project The Ocean Project is a large non-profit network of members, committed to finding better ways to conserve our oceans.

Patrick O'Callaghan and Bert Vescolani designed and delivered workshops across the USA and in Canada. These "Communicating for Conservation" workshops challenged traditional approaches to education and communication, melded recent reserach in persuasive communication with The Ocean Project's own research findings and presented alternative models to achieve members' conservation mandates.
Trust For Nature Trust for Nature provides land protection, management support and monitoring, purchases and on-sells private land through its Revolving Fund and accepts donations of private land for conservation via gifts or bequests.

Conservation Enterprises Unlimited was commissioned by the Trust to provide advice on trends in relationships between commercial and environmental entities. Our analysis is being used by TFN Directors to assist in strategic planning for the Trust's future directions.
Marine Discovery Centre The Marine Discovery Centre has always been a pioneer in marine education and community engagement. Though well-loved by community and clients, the MDC has a long history of challenges in an environment of uncertain government funding.

Conservation Enterprises Unlimited facilitated planning and prepared an operating strategy to enable the Centre to again excel in its conservation education work under a more predictable funding model.
National Heritage Trust Swan Bay Catchment Awareness Project

Swan Bay is an internationally significant (Ramsar, CAMBA, JAMBA) intertidal seagrass meadow that has been under pressure from land clearing and fertiliser use on its surrounding catchment areas. An NHT grant enabled experts in the Conservation Enterprises Unlimited network to develop a pioneering project that raised the profile of Swan Bay within the community and commenced measurable behaviour change of its catchment's residents.
Interpretation as a Management Tool Rottnest Island is a paradise with a unique opportunity: the entire island is managed by one authority and its natural values are astounding. When the Rottnest Island Management Authority was looking for a way to influence standards of visitor behaviour, we helped by working with a wide variety of the Authority's on-island staff, developing an agreed set of values statements, interpretive themes and visitor behaviour standards. These formed the basis of a renewed, more meaningful experience for visitors, and contributed to more consistent and appropriate visitor behaviour.
Ocean Wise The "Ocean Wise" seafood conservation program for restaurants is a major success story. Founded by Conservation Enterprises Unlimited's Patrick O'Callaghan and Tara Taylor, and the Vancouver Aquarium's John Nightingale, Ocean Wise now boasts over 100 participating restaurants across Canada and in the USA,making it one of the world's most effective retail-based Seafood conservation programs.

Conservation Enterprises Unlimited is now advising the Australian Conservation Foundation on its rollout of Ocean Wise in Australia.
Corangamite CMA We act as advisors to the CCMA by chairing the Biodiversity Operational Portfolio Group and representing biodiversity interests on the Authority's Regional Implementation Committee.

The Corangamite CMA is a statutory authority responsible for the planning and on-ground implementation of natural resource management in much of western Victoria.
Australian Conservation Foundation Our skills and experience in program design, communication planning and social marketing strategy are ensuring that ACF's Ocean Wise Australia program will change patterns of seafood consumption in restaurants around Australia.

Based on the Vancouver Aquarium's successful "Ocean Wise" program, itself established by staff now with Conservation Enterprises Unlimited, the Australian Conservation Foundation's program is spreading to restaurants in Australia's food capitals.
Predictive Habitat ModelingThe New Holland Mouse is a critically endangered heathland species about which little is known. Using a time series of trapping effort and correlating successful and unsuccessful trapsites with direct and derived landscape attributes, a habitat capability landscape representation was developed for the Angelesea heathlands. Fuzzy set analysis of post-fire habitat quality produced a useable management tool for fire planning across this important area of habitat.
TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Now attracting tens of thousands of Canadians each year, the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup started as a local beach cleanup on the shores of British Columbia.

Staff now with Conservation Enterprises Unlimited, together with other network members and the Vancouver Aquarium, grew the brand, sponsor relationship and community participation management of this exciting annual event into one of the largest environmental projects of its type.

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