Appropriate Approaches

You will be amazed that such a degraded site could be regenerated at all – but particularly given the controversy at the time that became known as ‘The Battle of the Brush!” This dramatic work helped us break free of dogma and assess the resilience of each site on its own terms. This is the [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The Rs of Restoration Presenter – Danny Pettingill The adoption of drone technology is increasing across industries providing advancements and efficiencies in data collection, analysis and on-ground outcomes. This technology provides significant opportunity in the landscape management sector to collect data, utilise multispectral and GIS workflows and deploy on ground [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The Rs of Restoration Presenter - Liam Gallagher This presentation explores the need for agencies to enhance their engagement with Aboriginal fire practitioners and each other to effectively support cultural fire practices. It delves into: The significance of cultural fire: Understanding its role in Aboriginal culture, land management, and environmental [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 – The Rs of Restoration Presenters: Ian and Michael Davidson Knowing the condition of native vegetation at a site is important to ensure that the most appropriate and sustainable land management decisions are made e.g. weed control, revegetation, burning etc. There is no standard approach to easily determine the condition of [...]

AABR National Forum 2024 - The Rs of Restoration Presenter: Craig McGrath, City Of Yarra Craig's presentation highlights Applying the 18 elements from the national standards to contract specifications. Designing restoration, regeneration, resilience programs around urban systems that don’t have an actual reference pallet. Incorporating National Standard elements within a repeatable rapid assessment tool that [...]

AABR National Forum March 2024 - The Rs of Restoration Yes it’s all about resilience assessment – but accurate prediction requires ongoing trial and error. Presenter - Tein McDonald, AABR The National Standards describe how four restoration approaches fit along a continuum of resilience - with spontaneous natural regeneration at the highest resilience end and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]