Assisted regeneration

50 years of regen - are we winning. Peter Dixon - AABR Fest 2024 - Welcome address Peter Dixon knows the bush regen world from just about every angle: volunteer, contractor, landcare facilitator, catchment strategist, program manager, grant-maker and now AABR President for the second time. In his welcome address at AABR Fest 2024, he [...]

Weedlings and Seedlings: Why Tiny Plants Make or Break Restoration – Rusty Linnane | AABR Fest 2024 Imagine applying for a grant on the strength of a rare species on your site… then accidentally spraying its only seedling in a primary sweep. That quiet risk sits behind every bushland job where we don’t really know [...]

Restoring natural vegetation means working in living systems full of interacting players: native species, weeds, different plant functional groups and all the ways they compete, collide and sometimes help each other. No wonder restoration sites can feel overwhelming. In this AABR Fest 2024 presentation, bush regenerator Pete Juniper cuts through that complexity with “Some Boiled [...]

Innovation in Conservation Symposium – May 10, 2024 – Ryde TAFE Cultural burning opportunities and bush regeneration - Den Barber In this powerful, personal talk, Den Barber—Aboriginal Partnerships Manager at Landcare NSW and founder of Yarrabin Cultural Connections—shares his cultural fire journey. From National Parks firefighter to leading cultural burning workshops across Country, Den reveals [...]

Innovation in Conservation Symposium – May 10, 2024 – Ryde TAFE Expert panel - The Future of Urban Biodiversity This insightful expert panel dives into the future of bush regeneration under a shifting climate. From rising heat and unpredictable rain to bureaucratic hurdles and funding gaps, the conversation unpacks what it really takes to regenerate [...]

Innovation in Conservation Symposium – May 10, 2024 – Ryde TAFE Topsoil translocation- 25 years- What’s been learnt? 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

The following questions were posed to Dr Tony Parkes at the AABR AGM held 19/2/22. 00:25 Why don’t we value the Big scrub and when do you think it will change? 02:45 Is this work being done elsewhere in the world…The Science Saving Rainforests? 04:45 In the genome project are the species limited to those [...]