C4 General Meeting

Join us for the C4 General Meeting this April, where members are encouraged to come together to discuss key issues, strategic direction, and the ongoing management of our organisation.

This is an important opportunity to stay informed, share your thoughts, and contribute to the future of C4. Your voice matters, and we welcome all members to attend and participate in shaping our work moving forward.

Agenda:

• 5:00PM: General Meeting
  • Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country
  • Attendance and Apologies
  • Confirmation of Previous Meeting Minutes
  • Management Committee Role Appointment
  • Key Project Updates
  • General Business
  • Next Meeting Date
  • Meeting Close
• 5:30PM: Short Break
• 5:45PM: Guest Speaker – Steve McAlpin
• 6:30PM: Dinner Break

Dinner: Light dinner provided, BYO refreshments.

Speaker: Steve McAlpin, “The Great Desert Skink at Uluru (and beyond!)”

Tjakura. The great desert skink is an extremely important species, both spiritually to all Aboriginal peoples across the western deserts and also ecologically wherever they occur.

They are landscape architects, constructing huge burrow systems that may contain a family of an adult pair and sibling juveniles from litters born during three consecutive years. The connecting tunnels of the burrow systems are used by hundreds of other species – both vertebrates and invertebrates and both predators and prey. The burrow systems also harvest sheet flow rainwater, occasionally creating an oasis of plant varieties through the area of the burrow system.

Despite having a huge distribution area across the western deserts of Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory the great desert skink is a listed threatened species. Feral cats are decimating many populations across their distribution. Work is now being undertaken to manage feral predation and monitor subpopulations across the vast western deserts region.