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Volunteers to nip Barrington Tops’ environmental weeds in bud
National Parks and Wildlife Service are calling for all hands on deck this autumn to help remove environmental weeds from Barrington Tops National Park.
National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) Bush Regeneration and Volunteering Officer Boyd Carney said the Carters Road Wildfire, which impacted the southern end of the Barrington Plateau had cleared the way for environmental weeds, like Scotch Broom, to thrive.
“More than 4000 hectares of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area on the Barrington Tops was impacted by the “Black Summer” bushfires.
“With the fire damaging or destroying swathes of native vegetation, and stimulating seed germination, Scotch Broom has sprung up across the park, outcompeting our precious native plants in some areas.
By Molly Taylor
A LARGELY untouched ecosystem near Penola has undergone extensive weed removal to help maintain its native vegetation and wildlife and reduce environmental threats.
Spanning roughly 300 acres, St Mary’s Sanctuary is a pristine area filled with native vegetation and is considered a high-priority feeding habitat to the endangered South-eastern Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo.
Due to its significance, volunteer conservation group Trees For Life has worked to remove woody weeds at the site to improve productivity and reduce degradation of habitat from weed invasion.
A team of eight contractors spent around two weeks to treat all weeds within a 100-hectare block and a follow-up visit is scheduled in 12-months time.
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AN icon of the Australian landscape has dwindled in recent years, with a new push to reverse that trend in the Limestone Coast.
Trees For Life is offering landholders the opportunity to plant new paddock trees and protect existing trees across the South East of South Australia.
Recent research has shown paddock trees are on the decline in the South East region and there is a significant lack of recruitment of a new generation.
The Limestone Coast Paddock Tree Project aims to create a new generation of paddock trees in the region by enabling landholders to plant new native trees and to apply best practice and cost-effective methods of sustainable agriculture to preserve existing trees.