Have your or your hives been affected by the recent bushfires?

Various types of emergency help are available through NSW Department of Primary Industries

If you require assistance to care for your hives as a result of the recent fires, you can call the Agriculture and Animal Services Hotline on 1800 814 647. Once your call is registered, DPI staff will call you back to discuss your individual circumstances and help identify available help.

For information on personal hardship and distress assistance, contact the Disaster Welfare Assistance Line on 1800 018 444 from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm Monday to Friday.

Further information on disaster assistance is at www.disasterassist.gov.au and the NSW emergency information and response website at www.emergency.nsw.gov.au

If you or someone you know needs extra support, the Mental Health Line is a 24-hour telephone service operating seven days a week across NSW on 1800 011 511

The Rural Resilience team work with primary producers across regional and remote NSW, and are there to listen, learn and link rural communities, families and individuals with the most appropriate services and information. www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rural-support/rural-resilience-program

If you are a landholder affected by bushfire in the North Coast, Northern Tablelands and Hunter regions, you’re urged to report damage to property and infrastructure. This online natural disaster damage survey enables the DPI to determine the area that natural disaster has impacted and the scale of the event, the severity of the impact, the value of the impact to primary production, and provide ongoing support where it may be needed. To complete the survey, visit www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/climate-and-emergencies/emergency/community/primary-industries-natural-disaster-damage-survey