Monitoring

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Dr Tein McDonald provides the background to the upcoming AABR Video on Heroes of Big Scrub Recovery and sets the scene for Tony Parkes talk on the Big Scrub Landcare's (BSL) Science Saving Rainforest project. Big Scrub was a once a 75,000 ha swathe of subtropical rainforest on the volcanic soils of the north coast [...]

The Guest Speaker at Annual General meeting of the Victorian Branch of The Australian Associaiton of Bush Regenerators was Craig McGrath who shared how as City of Yarra's Biodiversity Officer he is Using the National Restoration Standards in contract management, a Council’s perspective. In 2001, Craig commenced a community engagement role at the City of [...]

The first speaker in a series of information sessions on tips & techniques for bush regenerators is Martin Bass from Drone-Wise Australia. Martin, an experienced aviator, commercial drone pilot and educator, enlightened us with the technical capabilities of drones. Martin’s presentation provides an overview of the Types of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), how they [...]

How is your council dealing with the use of Glyphosate? Do they have the latest information? At the November 17 meeting of the Chemicals In the Management of Biodiversity Working Group (CIMB) the findings from the recently released report on alternative glyphosate treatments, commissioned by Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV), were presented by report authors, [...]

Renewal in the desert. The Barrier Field Naturalists’ Club And The Broken Hill Regeneration Reserves. Celebrating the restoration vision Of Albert Morris. Filmed in and around Broken Hill in 2017. Script: Virginia Bear and Tein McDonald. Thanks to everyone who assisted during filming in 2017 and editing in 2021. Particular thanks to the following people: [...]