Protecting and restoring Wirra-lo Wetlands – Wetlands Revival Trust
Damien Cook, ecologist and co-founder of the Wetland Revival Trust (WRT) outlines the project planning process the WRT are using to implement their goals outlined in the Blueprint for Action which include Ensuring restoration is based on sound science and practical knowledge: Embedding the National Standards for the Practice of Ecological Restoration in their work processes [...]
Demystifying reference ecosystems for bush regenerators – how their use is critical to best practice regen.
The guest speaker at this year’s Annual General Meeting is Dr Andy Baker who will be demystifying reference ecosystems, expounding their virtues and answering that question of every bush regenerators lips, Are we getting sub-optimal results by not defining our reference ecosystem? Dr Baker will be discussing the following scenarios Grassland – What happens if we [...]
Interpreting the National Restoration Standards for improving the reliability of local restoration projects
The second in a series of lunchtime webinars co-hosted by AABR vic and ECA Vic. Tein McDonald (a principal author of the National Restoration Standard) will first highlight ways the Standards’ principals and tools can be applied locally. Lincoln Kern (Consultant / restoration designer) will then highlight how the standards informed the La Trobe University [...]
Heroes of the Big Scrub
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 [...]
Management planning for conservation sites
Our aim through this series of co-hosted presentations between AABR Victoria and Ecological Consultants australia- Victoria is to improve outcomes in biodiversity restoration management through better design and provision of guidelines and presentation of both successful aspects of past projects as well as those we can learn from in ways they could have been done [...]
Innovations in the chemical management of vertebrate pests Q & A
The Q & A session of the Innovations in the Chemical Management of Vertebrate Pests webinar addressed the following questions from the audience. Q & A Timecodes 00:00 – 01:50 Might the lack of native plant recruitment after vertebrate pest control in sclerophyll veg communities be related to whether the soils are original or not? [...]
Innovations in the chemical management of vertebrate pests
Weed control is only one part of ecosystem management, animal pest management is another critical part of improving biodiversity outcomes. The 20 April webinar of the Chemicals In the Management of Biodiversity (CIMB) Working Group had two experts in the field of vertebrate control share the broad themes and detailed insights into chemical use of [...]
Big Scrub Restoration – Past Present Future – Q & A
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 [...]
Tony Parkes – Science Saving Rainforest Project – Big Scrub Landcare (AABR AGM Guest Speaker)
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 [...]