Appropriate Approaches

Innovation in Conservation Symposium – May 10, 2024 – Ryde TAFE Mark Walters - Soil Translocation Specialist Topsoil from development sites is usually headed for the tip and, although it’s distressing to see bush being cleared, the silver lining can be found in saving the seed-rich topsoil. Mark will be sharing how using translocated topsoil [...]

Innovation in Conservation Symposium – May 10, 2024 – Ryde TAFE Dr Michell Ryan (CHEN Platypus Project). The platypus is on the path to extinction and it is critical that national conservation measures are implemented. Due to their elusive behaviour, platypus are monitored using environmental DNA (eDNA) – an innovative, non-invasive sampling technique that analyses [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The R’s of Restoration Welcome to Country - Mandy Nicholson Dr Mandy Nicholson is Wurundjeri-willam (Wurundjeri-baluk patriline) artist, the founder, singer and songwriter of Djirri Djirri dance group and Traditional Custodian of Melbourne and surrounds. Mandy also has connections to the Dja Dja wurrung and Ngurai illam wurrung language groups [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The R’s of Restoration Sharing, learning and working together: On Country Learning - Ben Cullen, Chelsea Cooke and Renee Sweetman Ben Cullen works with Trust for Nature. TFN works with private land protection using conservation covenants. Ben talks about the Warreen Beek Rangers Course. Some years ago the CMA contacted [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The R’s of Restoration Wait and see - the benefits of time to explore resilience - Brian Bainbridge Brian has worked in ecological restoration since the mid 1990s. For over twenty years Brian worked with the community-based not for profit organisation - Merri Creek Management Committee and over the past [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The R’s of Restoration Consultation and community protocols- Jillian West and Uncle Shane Guidance for protocols were detailed by Jillian Jillian West has supported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in work education and their life’s journey. Jillian wants to see her people succeed in employment and education so the world [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The R's of Restoration Using the SER Standards to improve restoration project design - Lincoln Kern Lincoln is an ecologist with a keen interest in indigenous biodiversity conservation and environmental issues. He trained in botany and environmental science in the USA, before studying environmental management at Deakin University in Melbourne. After [...]

You will be amazed that such a degraded site could be regenerated at all – but particularly given the controversy at the time that became known as ‘The Battle of the Brush!” This dramatic work helped us break free of dogma and assess the resilience of each site on its own terms. This is the [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The Rs of Restoration Presenter – Danny Pettingill The adoption of drone technology is increasing across industries providing advancements and efficiencies in data collection, analysis and on-ground outcomes. This technology provides significant opportunity in the landscape management sector to collect data, utilise multispectral and GIS workflows and deploy on ground [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The Rs of Restoration Igniting change: Collaboration for cultural fire- Liam Gallagher Liam Gallagher has a Masters in Disaster and Emergency Management from Charles Darwin University and has been with the Victorian Department of Energy Environment and Climate Action for three years working previously as a forest and fire operations [...]