Photos John Gollings Photography Location: Sydney region, south west Friday 13 March 2015 10.00am – 2.30pm Dr Peter Cuneo will host a day for ecological restoration practitioners to learn more about the broad scale removal of African Olive, in particular how to restore cleared ‘ground zero’ sites where it had been growing as a monoculture for […]
Location: Sydney region, north west Saturday 18 April 2015 9.00 – 11.00am Join AABR member and NPWS Area Manager Jonathan Sanders for a field tour in Scheyville and Cattai National Parks. The tour will look at research trials for using fire in the rehabilitation of altered native grasslands and integrated weed control of species such as […]
AABR’s new video service is now up and running, starting with the first 2 presentations from the 2014 conference: Nigel Tucker’s Restoration, Regeneration and Resilience in the tropics and Justin Jonson’s, Large scale reconstruction of semi-arid ecosystems in south-west Western Australia. More are in the queue for editing and uploading, Thanks to our conference sponsor […]
AABR President, Tein McDonal’s opening of the AABR 2014 Seminar.
Justin Jonson is managing director, Threshold Environmental Pty. Ltd. As restoration manager for Greening Australia (2006-9) and manager of his own company (2010 – present) Justin has been involved in designing and implementing broad scale direct seeded and planted linkages on 765 hectares of marginal agricultural land in SW Western Australia. Detailed monitoring indicates these […]
Nigel Tucker is principal environmental scientist at Biotropica Australia. Nigel is also co-author of the very popular book guiding restoration in north Queensland, ‘Repairing the Rainforest’ and will illustrate his talk drawing on his own experience of rainforest restoration projects across the wet and dry tropics. He will emphasise the importance of using a reference […]
Location: Sydney region, south Friday 20 February 2015 4.30 – 6.30pm (low tide) Ecological consultants Dr Peggy O’Donnell, Geoff Sainty and Mia Dalby-Ball will lead a tour of this saltmarsh reconstruction area that is part of the Port Botany Expansion. The work to enhance the estuary ecosystem includes weed and mangrove removal, planted saltmarsh, expansion of […]
Yesterday’s AABR symposium “Rebuilding ecosystems, what are the principles?” was a great success. The conference centre venue was a great space and about 220 people attended. From all accounts the audience were all blown away by the very high quality of the ecological restoration work represented by the 7 invited speakers as well as the […]
COSMOPOLITAN CONSERVATIONISTS Greening Modern Sydney By Peggy James $39.95 • pb • isbn 9781925003086 Cosmpolitan Conservationists tells the stories of the intertwined lives and the stories of the intertwined lives and century Sydney. Their network featured: David STEAD Walter Burley GRIFFIN Charles BEAN Thistle HARRIS Norman WEEKES Marie BYLES Myles DUNPHY Annie WYATT Each individual […]
An updated edition of AABR’s Ticks and tick-borne diseases-protecting yourself is now available. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback and advice. It has been good to hear that so many people have found it useful. We hope you stay tick-safe and enjoy your time working in the bush! Lynn Rees and Virginia Bear