Welcome to the 2021 Spring issue of the Gecko Newsletter.

In this issue read about:

• Bushcare and COVID-19 update
• The ‘Rights of Nature’ – an Australian first
• Creating Habitat around The Gully Lake
• Blue Mountains Aboriginal Advisory Council’s ‘Statement of Recognition and Commitment’ endorsed by Blue Mountains City Council
• ABC Post-fire ongoing healing of country video for NAIDOC Week.
• The Butterfly Effect
• Farewell Malcolm
• Project Plant It – 80 trees planted for koalas at deanei forest
• Popes Glen Big Day Out – post-fire Gorse treatment
• Repairing the Australian bush in the 1890s
• Book review: “Twenty-Five Years of Bushcare’ Sublime Point Bushcare
• Spring has Sprung – Photo competition
• Vale Jeanell Buckley
• Vale Fred Lyford
• Bushcare Gecko is now online
• Events Webinars: Eucalypts of the Blue Mountains, Launch of “Twenty-Five Years of Bushcare’ Sublime Point Bushcare