Issue 3 – January 2026

Long Reads on Restoration

All About AABR – from the AGM. Peter Dixon

Peter goes through what AABR has done and what is planned for the next year.  The President’s Report.

When Good Intentions Meet Cold-Blooded Reality: Rethinking Habitat Management for Melbourne’s Threatened Reptiles and Frogs.

By Steve Llewellyn – Based on a presentation by David DeAngelis, Ecologist, ABZECO

Steve Llewellyn provides us with the information presented by ecologist DavidDeAngelis at a recent AABR outing. David highlighted challenges from some of our most fundamental assumptions about habitat restoration. David’s presentation delivered an uncomfortable truth: sometimes, our best restoration efforts may be inadvertently destroying the very species we’re trying to save.

Beyond Bunya Dieback.

Spencer and Karen Shaw, Brush Turkey Enterprises

Bunya, Araucaria bidwillii, is one of twenty surviving species from the family Araucariaceae. Bunya only exists naturally in Queensland, but Dieback with Phytophthora moving into areas of Bunya is resulting in loss of these. Read this article to find more and what can be done to limit further spread

AABR Fact Sheets

Recent AABR fact sheets have been produced by the AABR Chemicals in the Management of Biodiversity (CIMB) Working Group.These two fact sheets provide information to improve knowledge and ensure sound use of Glyphosate and chemicals. These can be downloaded.

Safe Use of Chemicals in Bush Regeneration (PDF)

Glyphosate and Chemical Bans: What Practitioners and Councils Need to Know (PDF)

Learning via AABRs regenTV

Four presentations from AABR Fest 2024 – Return of the Regenerators are now available on regenTV.

50 years of regen – are we winning – Peter Dixon

Priorities in bushland regeneration – some boiled down rules – Pete Juniper

Weedlings and Seedlings: Why Tiny Plants Make or Break Restoration – Rusty Linnane

AABR Fest Welcome to Country – Tracey Howie

The Bush Regenerator Issue 2 – September 2025

Recent articles from September 2025

• IT breakthroughs in Conservation and Bushcare. Paul Angel (Bushland Coordinator, Canterbury Bankstown Council) and Dorothy Luther (Data Scientist, retired).
• Friends of Mount Painter and Mount Painter Nature Reserve . Sarah Hnatiuk, Co-convenor of Friends of Mount Painter.
• Last Year’s (2024) AABR Blue Gum Walk, Talk & Gawk. Peta Lilley and JP Kecman
• iNaturalist and bush regeneration. Petra Holland tells us about iNaturalist and it’s value for bush regenerators and how Hornsby Council use it.
• Having Fun with iNaturalist Kate Watson, AABR Member and iNaturalist addict.
• Collecting and recording data using iNaturalist and with input from others 

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