The first event to celebrate AABR’s 40th anniversary was held at Killara Park in northern Sydney on 14th March. Twenty-three people gathered on a perfect morning to learn about the restoration of a tiny patch, 0.5 hectares of Sydney Turpentine Ironbark Forest, a critically endangered ecological community. Peta Lilly, AABR's Walks and Talks coordinator, [...]
Issue 2 - September 2025 It's Time - A word from the President. Peter Dixon Time is the essential ingredient in bush regeneration. In his latest report, AABR President Peter Dixon reflects on the patience, persistence, and long-term commitment needed to truly restore ecosystems — and how AABR helps give nature the time it needs. [...]
Friends of Mount Painter and Mount Painter Nature Reserve by Sarah Hnatiuk, Co-convenor of Friends of Mount Painter friends.of.mount.painter@gmail.com A case study describing the history of the site and the bush restoration carried out since 1989. Canberra, the Bush Capital and Mount Painter In designing Canberra in 1911-1912, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin [...]
President's Perspective - Planning for Ecological Restoration Projects -Peter Dixon Giving for Guidance - AABR is raising funds to develop guidance materials for the ERIK project. Prickly Pear Treatment Pilot Study -Lyndal Sullivan and Marianne Bate Restoration of Lowland Subtropical Rainforest at Coramba Nature Reserve on the Orara River - Kris Grace-Hely Spanish Moss - [...]
By Lyndal Sullivan and Marianne Bate December 2024 Figure 1- Location Map of Red Hill prickly pear pilot study site, ‘Gleniston’ north-east of Mudgee. In December 2022 a small trial of herbicide treatment of Prickly Pear (Opuntia sp.) was undertaken in the Mudgee area. It pointed to the effectiveness of spraying with Fluroxypyr. [...]
By Kris Grace-Hely Ecological Restoration Strategies, Coffs Harbour NSW Coramba Nature Reserve At nine hectares, Coramba Nature Reserve is the largest intact remnant of Lowland Subtropical Rainforest on Floodplain in the southern Clarence Catchment. The Reserve is located west of Coffs Harbour on the NSW mid north coast, near the township of Coramba. [...]
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 [...]
