Cooper Park – Council caring for the bush

On Tuesday 5th April, Rudi Adlmayer, Woollahra Council’s Bushcare Liaison Officer will be guiding us through Cooper Park, Woollahra which is in a highly urbanised area of Sydney. Rudi will talk about the park, its history of bush regeneration and some of the strategies he has used there for the last 20 years with the bushcare volunteers.

Cooper Park is a fascinating area with a combination of sporting facilities, cultural values and structures build during the 1930’s by unemployment relief schemes plus early bush regeneration. The Plan of Management for the park states that Cooper Park’s plant communities would most likely have been Shrubby Open Forest (ridges and upper slopes), Tall Open Forest (sheltered valley slopes and creek embankments) and a Swampland Association (lower flat area at western end of park).

The walk will move through Cooper Park, a 15ha site with 12 ha of bushland,  and look at some of the remnant bushland and discuss some of the history of ecological restoration in the park, then finish at Woollahra Council’s Bushcare site to observe the restoration the group has made on a highly degraded site over the last twenty years.

In this UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration this event provides a chance to see what can be accomplished in a decade or two and the structures and support that is required to make a difference. It is a rare opportunity to be able to pick the brains of a highly experienced bush regenerator operating within council structures to support volunteers.

Cooper Park is also the location of a ‘Go Slow for a Mo’ trail, a pop-up nature wellness trail designed to refresh your mood, energy and focus.

More information: Cooper Park Plan of Management

Register for this field trip

COST

MEMBERS                   $5

NON MEMBERS          $10

STUDENTS                   $0

Keeping calm with COVID

AABR will continue to ensure all events are as COVID safe as possible, will comply with all COVID rules and will communicate all requirements prior to events.

MEETING POINT

Meet at the end of Kendall St Woollahra at entrance to Cooper Park