To encourage people to take positive action for the environment, the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) held a free seminar at Sydney Olympic Park on Thursday 3rd October, 2013. The occasion marked a change within the organisation. For the first time in its 25-year history, AABR has opened its membership to anyone interested in […]
Ticks and tick-borne diseases – protecting yourself, is now available as a PDF. It is subtitled “A review of current information and options for bush regenerators, bush workers and people who love the bush.” This publication, edited by Virginia Bear and Lynn Rees, was prompted by a number of bush regenerators and ABBR members […]
8.30am, Friday 17th January 2014 Join AABR member Scott Meier for a morning site tour to look at restoration work being done a 14 hectare site of coastal ecological communities surrounding Norah Head Lighthouse, on the Central Coast. BYO drinking water, hat and sunscreen. Meet at 8.30am in the car park on Bush Street, just before the […]
If you are engaging contractors or employing staff, please be aware that (as of Oct 3 2013) AABR membership is no longer recognition of competency as a bush regenerator. This is now conveyed by AABR Accreditation. (Click here for formal notice).
information exchange ~ professional development ~ networking ~ connecting with other AABR members and like minded people These events are for AABR members and other people interested in ecological restoration. To register your interest and suggest ideas for future events, email secretary@aabr.org.au. Also keep an eye on the AABR newsletter & and on this website for […]
Fig 1: The Fingal Head trial plot where buffalo grass was sprayed and slashed. After persistent follow up about 90% cover of natives has regenerated. Species include prickly couch, native violet, native lobelia, blady grass, plectranthus and native rats tail. Very small numbers of a few grassland forbs (including golden everlasting daisy) were planted. Photo: […]
Fig 1 (left image): 1995: Degraded paddock prior to Phoenix Flats (Photo KWRP) Fig 2 (right image): 2001: Forming Phoenix Flats (Photo KWRP) Kooragang Wetland Rehabilitation Project has created 10ha of coastal saltmarsh, Phoenix Flats, from a degraded, disused paddock. The site is adjacent to a tidal creek on Ash Island 15km west of Newcastle in the […]
Fig 1 (left image). Control burn of ESBS at North Head (Photo Sydney Harbour Federation Trust) Fig 2 (right image). Regeneration of ESBS occurring after a burn at North Head. (Photo Sydney Harbour Federation Trust) Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS) is a nationally and state-listed Endangered Ecological scrub and heath vegetation community confined to deep, […]
Fig Top Left Part of the rainforest plantation at the private property owned by Jephcotts – 2006 (Photo Mark Dunphy); Fig Top Right. EnviTE map of the Big Scrub showing remnants, camphor and corridors (Map Paul O’Connor, EnviTE Environment) The Big Scrub is an area of subtropical rainforest in north coast NSW on deep volcanic soils. Believed […]
The great sandy beaches and the associated fore dunes of south east Queensland are under enormous pressure from pedestrian and vehicle access. That is, unmanaged pedestrian access that causes trampling of the dunal vegetation (such as beach spinifex Spinifex sericeus) poses the major threat to recruitment, resilience and structure in the vegetation community of the […]