Experience counts – New Standards reflect 30 years of repairing Australian Nature

It’s been two years since our last highly successful forum – and AABR is rearing to go again!

Join us for an outstanding day of invited speakers marking the NSW launch of the National Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration in Australia.

Date: Thursday, 21 July 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Where: Teachers Federation Conference Centre, 37 Reservoir St, Surry Hills

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FORUM PROGRAM
9:00-9:15 Setting the scene – Introduction to National Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration. Jen Ford, SERA Board.

SESSION 1
9:15-9:40 Principles in practice: Thirty years of ecological restoration on the Merri Creek, Melbourne. Brian Bainbridge, MCMC
9:40-10:05 Wetland restoration case studies from the Discovery Bay Coast in South Australia and Victoria. Mark Bachmann, Nature Glenelg Trust
10:05-10:30 Upping the ante on restoration – landscape scale restoration on Travelling Stock Reserves in the NSW Riverina Ian Davidson, Regeneration Solutions
10:30-10:45 DISCUSSION
10:45-11:00 Morning tea

SESSION 2
11:00-11:20 Using regional revegetation guides to inform reference ecosystems in fragmented rural landscapes of south-east Australia Gill Earl, Murray LLS
11:20-11:45 Restoration in fragmented landscapes: The importance of genetics Linda Broadhurst, CSIRO
11:45 – 12:05 Using the Atlas of Living Australia to assist provenance selection for restoration plantings under climate change Trevor Booth, CSIRO
12:05-12:30 Seed production to overcome seed supply uncertainty for biodiverse restoration: Snapshot from recent Churchill Fellowship tour of U.S.A. Paul Gibson Roy, Greening Australia
12:30-12.45 DISCUSSION
12:45 – 1.30 Lunch

SESSION 3

1:30-1:50 Launch of RegenTV – Suzanne Pritchard and Tein McDonald, AABR.
1.50-2:02 Forty years of restoration and production on a working sheep station: Barrabool, NSW: a case study.  Martin Driver, ANPC and pastoralist
2:02-2:14 Massaging the Bradley Method to treat 44 hectares of African Olive at the Western Sydney Parklands Edgar Friemanis, Ecohort P/L
2:13-2:26 Trajectories to full recovery: Rocky Creek Dam Regeneration area, Big Scrub, northern NSW. Brett Weissel, Rous Water
2:26-2:38 Back to Basics – with a twist: Reflections from a local government, bush regeneration program. Karin Nippard and Andrew Jennings, Northern Beaches Council
2:38-2.53 DISCUSSION
2:53-3:10 Arvo tea

SESSION 4
3:10-3:30 Restoring underwater forests Ezequiel (Ziggy) Marzinelli, Uni NSW
3:30-3:50 The Dewfish Demonstration Reach: Aquatic habitat restoration for native fish recovery Andrew Norris, DAF-QLD
3:50-4:10 Protecting paradise: restoring the flora and fauna of World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island Hank Bower and Sue Bower, LHI Board
4:10-4:30 DISCUSSION

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