Author: Todd Dudley, President, North East Bioregional Network The site in 2014 The St Helens Sports Complex is located on the outskirts of the town of St Helens, north east Tasmania. While it is primarily set aside for sporting activities, it has viable remnant patches of bushland within its environs. In 2014 the [...]
Spanish Moss living in Oak and Old Mans Beard, Savannah Photo L Brodie A study by STEP STEP is a community-based environmental organisation covering suburbs in northern Sydney from Ku-ring-gai and Hornsby local government areas and surrounding suburbs with a membership of over 550. Its primary aim is to work for the conservation [...]
Drone over Hexham Swamp Supplied by Sky Land Management. Photo: S. Pritchard At the AABR field day at Hexham Swamp, near Newcastle NSW, Phil Milling, Managing Director of Sky Land Management, demonstrated and told us how drones can be used for a variety of land management activities. Sky Land Management commenced in 2014, [...]
Restoring the Cumberland Plain in north western Sydney – AABR Walk and Talk Xuela Sledge, Project Manager, Cumberland Plain Restoration Program – Greater Sydney Landcare Greater Sydney Landcare and NSW National Parks and Wildlife have teamed up with several other partners to coordinate the Cumberland Plain Restoration Program (CPRP). This is a Saving our Species [...]
Restoration of Akaroa Quarry - Tasmania - using a variety of methods Todd Dudley - North East Bioregional Network In 2016 the North East Bioregional Network (NEBN) objected to a proposed re opening of a quarry to extract granite for an extension to the St Helens Point barway rock wall. The mine is located in [...]
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Hundreds of AABR members rose to the challenge of supporting post-fire regeneration only to have their intent somewhat stifled by a pandemic. In spite of this five NSW site coordinators managed to navigate the COVID constraints and deliver on-ground outcomes. We will be sharing the process and the achievements from 12 months of post-fire regeneration [...]
A six year - $250,000 Environmental Trust project enabled a community group to formally identify threatened species, record and monitor the local flora and fauna and undertake bush regeneration which has aided connectivity and set the multiple public reserves on a recovery trajectory. An assortment of community engagement events were undertaken and a plethora of [...]
The Koorangie Marshes are part of the Kerang Wetlands Ramsar site that is culturally significant to the Barapa Barapa people. Prolonged waterlogging and rising salinity, which resulted in the death of River Red Gum and Eumong canopies, had historically impacted almost half of the Koorangie marshes. In partnership with the Barapa Barapa peoples the regeneration [...]
