COVRAM a simple tool for better native vegetation management
AABR National Forum 2024 – The Rs of Restoration COVRAM – a simple tool for better native vegetation management -Ian and Michael Davidson Ian is an ecologist with over 30 years of experience in native vegetation assessments and providing land management advice. He’s the developer of COVRAM Michael is the tech guy, with a background [...]
Applying the 18 elements from the national standards to contract specifications
AABR National Forum 2024 - The Rs of Restoration Applying the 18 elements from the National Standards to contract specifications -Craig McGrath, City Of Yarra Craig is the Biodiversity Officer from the City of Yarra. The principles of the SERA National Standards pretty much underwrite the City of Yarra’s contracts. Back in 2016, I thought [...]
Accurately predicting resilience requires ongoing trial and error.
AABR National Forum March 2024 - The Rs of Restoration Yes it’s all about resilience assessment – but accurate prediction requires ongoing trial and error - Tein McDonald, AABR Tein McDonald led the team that produced the National Standards. Tein draws on the ecological literature about resilience and disturbance and her experience in restoration of [...]
AABR Accreditation
The Australian Association of Bush Regenerators is expanding its accreditation system. Right now we’re keen to hear from those more proficient and committed regenerators who’ve probably been ready for accreditation for a while. Do you fit that category? Or does someone you know? Get in touch with AABR’s Accreditation team – or visit our website. [...]
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 [...]