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Sorting out the R words: using the Standards to improve restoration project design.

2024-07-30T07:42:57+10:00

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 [...]

Igniting change: Collaboration for cultural fire – Liam Gallagher

2024-07-30T06:05:33+10:00

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 [...]

Tony Parkes – Science Saving Rainforest Project – Big Scrub Landcare (AABR AGM Guest Speaker)

2022-03-24T05:56:44+10:00

Big Scrub Landcare are now driving an innovative program to ensure that all plantings use genetically diverse planting stock to overcome potential inbreeding and build greater adaptability to climate change within the landscape. Dr Tony Parkes (AO) - retired organic chemist and merchant banker (turned rainforest restorer) - is the Founder and President of Big [...]

Big Scrub Restoration – past, present and future

2022-03-24T05:58:52+10:00

Dr Tein McDonald provides the background to the upcoming AABR Video on Heroes of Big Scrub Recovery and sets the scene for Tony Parkes talk on the Big Scrub Landcare's (BSL) Science Saving Rainforest project. Big Scrub was a once a 75,000 ha swathe of subtropical rainforest on the volcanic soils of the north coast [...]

Supporting recovery of fire-affected bushland in Victoria

2021-06-04T10:17:59+10:00

Federal, State and Regional agencies along with community groups and private landholders have all been striving to address the consequences of the bushfires of 2019-20. This Zoom webinar highlighted the insights, actions and opportunities that are occurring as the ecosystems transition with various levels of support.

Six years and $250,000 – What a community group learnt from implementing a major project :: Suzanne Pritchard :: SERA Conference 2018

2020-04-01T20:28:41+10:00

A six year - $250,000 Environmental Trust project enabled a community group to formally identify threatened species, record and monitor the local flora and fauna and undertake bush regeneration which has aided connectivity and set the multiple public reserves on a recovery trajectory. An assortment of community engagement events were undertaken and a plethora of [...]

Scaling up – Is it possible or an ongoing aspiration? :: Jen Ford :: SERA Conference 2018

2020-04-01T20:28:41+10:00

Comprehensive strategic planning and site assessments, coupled with thinking creatively around landscape connections are some of the ingredients required to scale up projects. By understanding the capacity of assisted regeneration, a spectrum of bush regenerator skill levels and resources can be utilised to maximise outcomes.  Jen Ford provides two examples that explore how the planning [...]

Fire management business in Australia’s tropical savannas :: Jeremy Russell-Smith :: NCC Forum 2015

2020-04-01T20:28:41+10:00

The north Australian savannas are vast and have the potential to provide significant indigenous business opportunities for markets in greenhouse gas emissions, living tree biomass and non-living biomass as shown during the Carbon Farming Initiative. Jeremy Russell-Smith provides an overview of the fire management strategies that have been undertaken within the context of indigenous management [...]

Big Scrub – making a vision of genetically appropriate seed production areas a reality :: Tony Parkes :: SERA Conference 2018

2020-04-01T20:28:42+10:00

Rainforest restoration pioneers, Big Scrub Landcare, are again at the forefront of restoration ecology investigating solutions to the problem of genetic inbreeding in the hundreds of thousands of Big Scrub plantings. With the long term viability of the Big Scrub and associated investment at stake, they have developed a strategy to test for genetic diversity, [...]

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