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Annual Reports
Annual Operational Report - F.Y. 2004
FY 2004 has been our busiest and most expensive year yet conducted at Waterfall Springs.
We have focused on construction of habitats, infrastructure development and animal recruitment.
Our Application to form a Foundation to provide for tax deductibility on cash donations is now months in the making ---- and could still be months from being approved The final draft is about to be sent to the Dept of Fair Trading .The delay in this process has forced our Association to take out significant loans (secured by Redranger) to bridge the funding gap as we await receipt of funds generously committed by our sponsors. Until such time as our Foundation is registered, our Association cannot accept these intended donations, in a tax-deductible manner.
On behalf of our registered organisation, Waterfall Springs Conservation Association Inc, I would like to sincerely thank all our generous sponsors for the valuable contributions.
From time to time Debbie will forward you a very brief summary of the progress of our Endangered Species Breeding program, which has been made possible through you support.
Commencement of Rock-wallaby facilities commenced in 2001, and has continued through till the present time. We are at last pleased to advise, that all planned major construction is now complete although we have around a years work to complete fencing and landscaping.
We have constructed an additional 13 separate rock wallaby habitats, most are basically large earthen mounds with concrete culvert incorporated to form numerous tunnels, dens and caves. Quarried rock is then placed on selected aspects of the earthen mound to create escarpments.
These facilities will provide excellent habitats for the Endangered Rock Wallaby breeding programs we have undertaken.
To recruit valuable breeding stock, we conducted 3 separate, 4 week, trapping missions on Kawau Island New Zealand to Rescue and Repatriate the Endangered Brush-tailed Rock-wallabies that were taken to the island 100 years ago.
As expected, this was a very difficult, lengthy and expensive campaign .By May 2004 we imported 33 wallabies, the total cost of the exercise including construction of Quarantine facilities and habitats for the animals was $ 210,000.
Waterfall Springs is now home to 4 Endangered species of wallaby. With the commencement of managed breeding programs under the direction of the various state government Recovery Programs, it became necessary to enlist the services of an experienced wildlife Keeper. In June, Debbie Breen was appointed as Sanctuary Manager and has now enlisted the services of an experienced group of Permanent Volunteer Keepers to assist with the animal husbandry requirements.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF SPONSORS AND DONORS:-
Our Sponsors and Donors have played a VERY important, in fact critical roll in this project. Listed below are some of the major contributions:-
Australian Geographic Society - Tiane |McCormick - Sponsorship Administrator, gave $5000.00
Ron and Kay Collins of Kulnura - donated 300 tons of red rock for the Yellow-footed rock-wallaby habitat.
Department of Conservation - Warkworth, New Zealand for endless logistical support on Kawau Island.
Beresford Concrete Products - donated 40 tons of precast concrete pit risers.
Boulderstone Hornibrook - supplied and delivered 30 tons of culvert pipes and 3 tons of galvanised structural tube.
Earth Sanctuaries Foundation - contributed $75,000 towards the Kawau BTRW rescue in exchange for 8 of the animals repatriated.
Hanson Construction Materials (formally Hymix) - donated and loaded 1050 tons of Basalt rock and soil.
Kennards Hire - have pledged $ 40,000 cash towards the cost of the Kawau BTRW Rescue Project.
Koppers Logs - donated two tons of treated pine logs and sawn timber.
Ray Weaver - Auckland, NZ, in his position of President of the Pohutukawau Trust, for endless assistance in negotiating permission for us to trap the wallabies on private lands of Kawau Island.
Redranger / Nolathane - donated $ 50,000 in cash for the 3rd consecutive year.
Steel Fencing Services at Berowra - donated 3 tons of gates, chain wire, colourbond roof sheeting and fence fittings.
Sydney Environmental and Soil Laboratories - have pledged $5,000 towards the Kawau BTRW Project.
Tuggerah Veterinary Clinic - Drs Victoria Onus and Annette Lockley - provided veterinary services day and night as required to conduct Quarantine inspections of the repatriated Kawau Is BTRW.
Uniworld / Deawha , Korea - donated $ 10,000 in cash for FY2004 and expressed interest in continuing financial support.
Charlie Vatarno of Yarramalong - donated 1100 tons of clean earthen fill.
Yarramalong Turf Supplies - donated hundreds of square metres of turf required for the enclosures.
Regards,
Lloyd Oldfield
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