Engaging Others

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 [...]

Innovation in Conservation Symposium - May 10, 2024 - Ryde TAFE Regen2.0 - the future of bush regeneration to give a future to the Bush AABR Keynote -Peter Dixon- Symposium Theme: Innovation in Restoration The Symposium title about Innovation in Restoration is apt because we have to constantly improve our impact and effectiveness and efficiency [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

The second in a series of lunchtime webinars co-hosted by AABR vic and ECA Vic. Tein McDonald (a principal author of the National Restoration Standard) will first highlight ways the Standards’ principals and tools can be applied locally. Lincoln Kern (Consultant / restoration designer) will then highlight how the standards informed the La Trobe University [...]

Heroes of the Big Scrub is an inspiring story of landscape scale restoration. The video showcases the people who understood the processes of rainforest restoration ecology, and have dedicated their life's work to enabling substantial recovery of the Big Scrub against all odds. The video looks at the role of assisted natural regeneration and revegetation [...]

Our aim through this series of co-hosted presentations between AABR Victoria and Ecological Consultants australia- Victoria is to improve outcomes in biodiversity restoration management through better design and provision of guidelines and presentation of both successful aspects of past projects as well as those we can learn from in ways they could have been done [...]