AABR

AABR was established in 1986 out of concern for the continuing survival and integrity of bushland and its dependent fauna in or near bushland areas, and seeks new members and friends for promoting good work practices in natural areas. The Association's aim is to foster and encourage sound ecological practices of bushland management by qualified people, and to promote the study and practice of Bush Regeneration.

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EVENTS

The next AABR walk is on August 1st. The walk will be through Cumberland Plain woodland at Lansdowne, led by Alan Fairley. The AABR AGM will be held in October. The speaker will be Arthur White talking about maintaining and creating frog habitat. See the What's On for all the details.

The Restoring Biodiversity Industry Association will hold its next events on July 17th and September 11th. All the details can be found on the 'What's On' page and at http://www.restoringbiodiversity09.org.au.

The Society for Ecological Restoration International (SERI) is holding its annual world conference at Perth, Western Australia on 23 -27 August 2009. See details at www.seri2009.com.au/index.html

The Weed Society of NSW is holding a seminar on 'New Advances in Herbicide Use' in Epping on September 9th. More information in the 'What's on ' section.

The Australian Museum in Sydney has free entry and tours through the backrooms and corridors on Sunday 5th July.

The What's On section has more information on various events organised by AABR and other organisations. If you would like to publicise an event that might be of interest to AABR members and other interested people please forward details to This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Members, subscribers and non-members are all welcome to attend all AABR events.

RESOURCES

The Australian arm of the Society for Ecological Restoration looks at our "top 25" restoration sites. You can check them out at

www.globalrestorationnetwork.org/countries/australianew-zealand/australia

Hornsby Council have just released the second edition of their Natives and Weeds Look-alikes booklet. The booklet can be found at

www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/environment/index.cfm?NavigationID=1430

The WEEDS C.R.C. may be no more but its website is still available at www.weedscrc.org.au.

It has a wide range of great resources such as a series of management guides for environmental weeds. They are available at www.weedscrc.org.au/publications/weed_man_guides.html.

AABR has produced a report with WWF-Australia on the effect of garden plant escapes on bushland in Eastern Australia. Click here to download the Report (1.2MB PDF). The report is based on information from those working in remnant natural areas. Many respondents are AABR members.

Bush Regenerators' pay and working conditions and other pressing issues facing the Bush Regen industry. Email discussion on the Bush Regeneration list server identified over 30 urgent issues which need addressing. Click HERE to read more. Click HERE to find out how to subscribe to the list server.

The Volunteer Coordinators Network Group is for members of the Volunteer Coordinators Network or those who'd like to join. Any professional coordinator or facilitator of a community environmental program is eligible to join. Examples are Landcare, Bushcare, Dunecare, Streamwatch, Waterwatch, Saltwatch, etc. Run by AABR as a service to the Volunteer Coordinators' Network (Natural Areas).