Seven years after the release of the Cradle Mountain Masterplan, CCA is delighted that another huge achievement has been ticked off the list of ambitious goals! The official opening of the Dove Lake Viewing Centre last month marked a significant milestone met. CCA welcomes this additional asset to the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Not without mentioning the completion of the new Visitor Centre in 2020, we [...]
CCA is delighted to announce the appointment of four new board members. Top left: Barbara Hingston AM. Chair, REDC Top Right: Matthew Greskie, Chair, NAMS Canada Bottom Left: John Dowling, Director – Coventry’s Pharmacy Pty Ltd, Chairman, Meridian Lawyers Bottom Right: Cheryl Fuller, Mayor, Central Coast Council Click here to read their full introductions.
Last month Cradle Coast Authority attended the Seedlab Sisters Cradle Coast Celebration event; what a great partnership between CCA and Seedlab Tasmania. It was fantastic to be a part of this celebration event and support Seedlab along the way. Congratulations to all the team and participants! “Today made a big difference to me - a real demonstration of the value of partnerships, communication, and community in fulfilling [...]
Following the release of the Jobs and Skills Summit Issues paper, CCA’s CEO Sheree Vertigan attended one of three regional Jobs and Skills Roundtable. On 18th August 2022, North West and West Coast attendees addressed our shared economic challenges. The challenges discussed are applicable to the Cradle Coast region; with many of them previously identified in the Regional Futures Plan and relevant to the agenda of the [...]
With the upcoming local government elections in our region and the retirement of some of our CCA Directors, the Board will be taking on a different look into the future. On behalf of the Board and the CCA team I would like to sincerely thank independent Directors Malcolm Wells (Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee) and Kathy Schaefer (Chair of the Regional Development Committee) for their [...]
PROJECT OFFICER Dr Tom O'Malley Regional Agriculture Landcare Facilitator E: tomalley@cradlecoast.com T: (03) 6433 8432 For more information about our team, click here. This online module provides information to farmers and landholders about options to consider to build resilience into their farming system to better adapt to farming under a changing climate View Online Module
PROJECT OFFICER Spencer Gibbs RLP Program Manager E: sgibbs@cradlecoast.com T: (03) 6433 8436 For more information about our team, click here. This project has completed important bird surveys on King Island, to improve our understanding of the distribution and habitat requirements of the critically endangered King Island Scrubtit and King Island Brown Thornbill. These two birds are among the five Australian bird species considered most likely, in the [...]
PROJECT OFFICER Anna Wind Environment Project Coordinator E: awind@cradlecoast.com T: (03) 6433 8449 For more information about our team, click here. Check out the LITTLE PENGUIN TOOLKIT A new citizen science-based toolkit was recently launched by Minister for Primary Industries and Water the Hon. Guy Barnett and Cradle Coast Authority CEO, Daryl Connelly. Funded by the Tasmanian Government and developed by CCA’s Natural Resource Management (NRM) team, [...]
Everyone has a role to play in the system reset. How we work through this may depend on the way we interpret our social currency and adopt new strategies to rebuild. It will be crucial to ensure that we create a strong community and a strong affiliation with the consumers of our brand as we reboot, and ideally, this should start locally Prior to COVID-19, each day was routine [...]
As I reflect on my first two weeks in the job, I am struck by the potential of Cradle Coast Authority and our partners to develop a unique integrated model for sustainable economic development. A model which can enrich the region greatly, attract future investment and meet the twin needs of our economic development and natural resource management. Australia is a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) [...]