Project Description
Restoring native vegetation cover on an island dominated by Kikuyu and Coastal Morning Glory poses unique challenges, especially when the island provides critical seabird breeding habitat. The Five Islands Nature Reserve is a culturally significant site and the success of the restoration project has been due to the project bringing together the Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council, scientific, Friends of Five Islands and academic communities.
| Topic | Mins: seconds |
|---|---|
| Opening Titles | 00:00 |
| Acknowledgements | 00:15 |
| Site location/connections | 1:18 |
| Nature Reserve Fauna | 2:05 |
| Threats- current and historical | 2:25 |
| Successful Management of Kikuyu | 3:20 |
| Planning and adaptive management and volunteers | 3:45 |
| Traditional knowledge | 5:25 |
| Employment opportunities | 6:25 |
| Art connections | 7:00 |
| Scientific expertise | 7:55 |
| Aerial treatment | 8:45 |
| University research- evaluating success | 9:30 |
| Volunteer engagement | 9:50 |
| Project partners | 10:30 |
| Community solutions- social dimension | 11:30 |
| Funding partners | 12:15 |
| Question: Drone Monitoring | 12:35 |
| Question: Erosion and planting | 14:04 |
| End credits | 15:00 |
Read More – Links
- Roder, Nial J., Spatial Mapping of Vegetation Change on Big Island, Five Islands Nature Reserve, Port Kembla, BEnvSc Hons, School of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Wollongong, 2017
- Illawarra Aborigines- An Introductory History This book chapter was originally published as Organ, MK and Speechley, C, Illawarra Aborigines, in Hagan, JS and Wells, A (eds), A History of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Press, 1997, 7-22
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