Welcome to the January edition of the Hotspots News Online.

Articles in this edition:

1. Fire Season Update, January 2024
2. Hotspots Workshops Update, January 2024
3. Safe Havens - Large Forest Owls Project
4. Landholder Booklet Updates
5. Burning Approval Process Fact Sheet
6. Watch Nana Glen Workshop Video
7. Eco Burn Education - an Award Winner!
8. Fire and Restoration Resource Hub
9. Apps and Links - cultural burning calendars and more!

To find out more about Hotspots workshops and to register, click here or in the Hotspots workshops article below.

Kind regards,                                                                                                             
The Hotspots Team

Large areas of eastern, central and northern NSW are expected to see increased risk of fire in summer 2024 as areas burnt in the 2019/20 fires are now able to support dangerous fires again. Learn more here.

A calmer weather period has allowed the Hotspots teams to get workshops rolling out across the state with two workshops delivered already both with close involvement from Indigenous fire practitioners. Learn more...

The Nature Conservation Council’s newest component of its Large Forest Owls Project, the Safe Havens Project, funded by the NSW Environmental Trust, has held its first community workshop outlining recent data, nest box techniques, and impacts on local owl populations across the Richmond and Clarence Valleys. Learn more...

The Hotspots Fire Project has updated its Managing Fire on Your Property booklets for landholders in the Southern Rivers, Northern Rivers and Hawkesbury Nepean regions, with changes to climate change predictions, Fire Danger Ratings and more. Read more…

The Hotspots Fire Project has updated its fact sheet on the Burning Approval Process with the most current advice on what to do when seeking approval to burn on your property. Read more…

Watch a video about a Hotspots Workshop conducted up on the north coast in 2021 at Nana Glen, and the outcomes for a range of landholders. Read more...

Mid Coast 2 Tops Landcare has been partnering with RFS, MidCoast Council, the Hotspots team and Nature Conservation Council to run a program called Eco Burn Education. Last month, at the 2023 Sustainable Communities Tidy Towns Awards, the program walked away a winner! Read more...

Check out the NCC’s Biennial Bushfire Conference recordings, new short courses for landholders, a children’s book about a hazard reduction burn and a new initiative to protect small mammals after fire. Read more...

Fires Near Me has been updated to Hazards Near Me, check out a natural disaster map, wind app, the new Emergency Plus app from the Government, report any Fire Ants in NSW and more! Read more...