By Lyndal Sullivan and Marianne Bate December 2024 Figure 1- Location Map of Red Hill prickly pear pilot study site, ‘Gleniston’ north-east of Mudgee. In December 2022 a small trial of herbicide treatment of Prickly Pear (Opuntia sp.) was undertaken in the Mudgee area. It pointed to the effectiveness of spraying with Fluroxypyr. [...]
By Kris Grace-Hely Ecological Restoration Strategies, Coffs Harbour NSW Coramba Nature Reserve At nine hectares, Coramba Nature Reserve is the largest intact remnant of Lowland Subtropical Rainforest on Floodplain in the southern Clarence Catchment. The Reserve is located west of Coffs Harbour on the NSW mid north coast, near the township of Coramba. [...]
The inspirational lunchtime webinar by Damien Cook from the Wetland Revival Trust- Protecting and restoring Wirra-lo Wetlands is an hour well spent is now available to watch on regenTV. Never underestimate the power of a great idea and the dedication to a cause. The lunchtime webinar series co-hosted by AABRVic and ECAVic are proving to [...]
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Watch the recording of the webinar Lincoln Kern (Practical Ecology) and Tein McDonald (Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia) will speak about interpreting the National Restoration Standards to make project design and implementation more reliable for any local level project. Tein McDonald (a principal author of the National Restoration Standards) will first highlight ways the [...]
regenTV is AABR’s video platform and we love to record the knowledge that is shared at our field days and forums because not everyone can get to a field day or forum. There’s always so much to capture with experts on hand sharing their passion projects and enthusiastic participants asking the million dollar questions. Making [...]
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 [...]
The Koorangie Marshes are part of the Kerang Wetlands Ramsar site that is culturally significant to the Barapa Barapa people. Prolonged waterlogging and rising salinity, which resulted in the death of River Red Gum and Eumong canopies, had historically impacted almost half of the Koorangie marshes. In partnership with the Barapa Barapa peoples the regeneration [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
