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Restoring Ross Road for the Reef

Exploring the future of restoration and conservation in changing climates at Haining Farm

...the seed science field, for example, we’ll soon be seeing approaches that bring together a practitioner’s on-ground understanding of an ecosystem with the underlying genetics of a species. “We’re talking...

Seeds from the sky – can drones help stop the local extinction of Alpine Ash?

...if they’ve been impacted by catastrophic natural disasters like bushfires. “We’re testing how drones can help us regenerate strategically positioned ‘restoration islands’ – dense plantings of key species including the...

Survey finds greater range of water bugs in restored sections of Harvey River

...control sites, from 22 species originally to 39 this year. This shows the restored sections are moving things in the right direction,” said Ross Wylie, Senior Program Officer at Greening...

Protecting and Connecting ACT Woodlands

Seed testing: why it’s important for Australia’s ecological restoration

...species, such parameters are unequivocally described by the International Seed Standards Association (ISTA). Moreover, the high variability within a species, for example, of seeds collected from different plant populations (or...

What is carbon farming?

...be ‘farmed’ through a variety of methods. Land managers can increase the amount of carbon their land stores by integrating plantings of native plant species into their system, for example,...

Rescuing Queensland’s largest freshwater turtle

...Burnett, Mary and Fitzroy Catchments along the central and southern coasts of Queensland, the White-throated Snapping Turtle was formally described in 2006 and is listed as an endangered species. Egg...

Road-testing a Malleefowl Prioritisation Tool

...of just three Australian species of mound-building birds. They use their large, powerful feet to create enormous mounds of sand and leaf litter, where they incubate their eggs. The chicks...

Restoring Australia partners celebrate two years and half a million trees

...which customers buy at Officeworks.   So far, the initiative has helped successfully restore more than 900 hectares of land and provide habitat for 14 threatened or endangered wildlife species....

Bushfire crisis update

...to announce that two members of WA staff visited the property last week and noted some re-sprouting of a range of species two months after the fire in 5-year-old revegetation....

Large-scale biodiversity and carbon project in WA redefines restoration

...restoring landscape connectivity within a global biodiversity hotspot whilst sequestering carbon at a significant scale. More than 80 native plant species have been incorporated into the restoration work so far....