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Current and recent projects in the area covered by Lismore, Kyogle and Richmond local government areas include:
Restoration of Lowland Rainforest on Floodplain at Boatharbour with Wilsons River Landcare
Myall Creek Riparian Restoration Cats Claw Creeper Control
Control of Riparian Vines to Protect Biodiversity on Jiggi Creek with Jiggi Landcare
Cubawee Bank Stablisation on Leycester Creek with Yabur Yulgun Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) Aboriginal Land Council
Targeted Rivers Program, Double Duke-Myall Creek
Strategic Environmental Weeds – Big Scrub
Key Corridor Connections
Evans River catchment to coast corridors project
Invasive Species Weeds of National Significance (WONS) Lantana, 2009 -2010
Bungawalbin Creek Riparian Vegetation Enhancement: Cocks Comb Coral Tree Control (Community Coastcare)
Lowland Rainforest in the NSW North Coast Bioregion including the Clarence, Richmond, Brunswick and Tweed regions – proponent Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group (Open Grants Project), managed by EnviTE Environment.
Protect and Preserve Biodiversity at Nimbin Rocks & Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council Indigenous Training Program – proponent Ngulingah LALC (Working on Country Project)
Funded by the NSW Environmental Trust
Restoration of Lowland Rainforest on Floodplain at Boatharbour with Wilsons River Landcare 2007-10
Professional bush regenerators have rehabilitating significant riparian vegetation (Endangered Ecological Community - Lowland Rainforest on Floodplain) on a kilometre of the Wilsons River at Boatharbour. Major weed species degrading riparian vegetation included Asparagus Fern, Madeira Vine and Small-leaved Privet.
EnviTE Environment prepared a restoration action plan to guide on-ground works. Project partners included: Wilsons River Landcare Group, DECC and private landholders.
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Myall Creek Riparian Restoration Cats Claw Creeper Control 2008-11
Cats Claw Creeper and other weeds are degrading high conservation value riparian ecosystems (Rainforest and Wet Sclerophyll Forest), in the Myall Creek sub-catchment. Threatened flora and fauna species are present including the Giant Barred Frog (Mixophyes iteratus). The project includes two sites; upstream on Camira Creek (4.2 ha) and downstream on Myall Creek (4.8 ha). This project will contribute to improvements in riparian vegetation, habitat connectivity and biodiversity.
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Control of Riparian Vines to Protect Biodiversity on Jiggi Creek with Jiggi Landcare
The aim of this Jiggi Landcare project is to engage professional bush regenerators to control invasive environmental weeds along the 25.36 km length of Jiggi Creek. Community surveys and ground truthing were used to select and prioritise areas to be included in the three year project. Exotic vines have spread at a rapid rate with large sections of riparian vegetation now obscured below a canopy of vines. Vines such as madeira and cats claw creeper are being controlled. Jiggi Creek is distinctive in the Richmond River catchment due to its healthy, intact and almost continuous riparian vegetation cover. Many threatened species, both flora and fauna, have been recorded throughout its length. Twelve landowners and Landcare members are working with EnviTE Environment to achieve the project objectives.
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Cubawee Bank Stabilisation on Leycester Creek with Yabur Yulgun Community Development Employment Project (CDEP) Aboriginal Corporation (Protecting our Places project) 2009-11
EnviTE Environment bush regenerators have been contracted to revegetate, restore and rehabilitate the banks of Leycester Creek on the culturally significant aboriginal site of Cubawee. The creek banks on site are almost devoid of vegetation which has resulted in bank slumping and erosion. Slumping and erosion of creek banks will be remediated through revegetation with native riparian flora species of local provenance. This project will contribute to improvements in riparian vegetation, bank stability, habitat connectivity, water quality and biodiversity.
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Funded by the Northern Rivers Catchment Management Authority (NRCMA)
Targeted Rivers Program, Double Duke-Myall Creek 2004-09
The Myall Double Duke River Rehabilitation project involved implementation of on-ground works including weed control, planting, fencing to exclude stock access from the stream bank, provision of off-stream watering points and remediation of channel instability. Approximately 25 km of stream bank has been targeted for weed control and more than 11 km has been fenced on 17 properties. Cats Claw Creeper is the major weed, infesting ~90 ha of high conservation value riparian vegetation.
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Strategic Environmental Weeds – Big Scrub 2006-09
Invasive environmental weed species are the greatest threat to Big Scrub remnants of lowland subtropical rainforest.
This project funded employment of professional bush regenerators to strategically control weeds in partnership with landholders. Big Scrub consortium partners include the Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group, EnviTE, Rous Water, Ballina Shire Council, Byron Shire Council and the Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC).
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Key Corridor Connections 2008-11
This project aims to enhance wildlife corridors at Evans Head and Yarrahapinni (south of Coffs Harbour). Species at risk include; the brush-tailed phascogale, glossy black cockatoo, giant barred frog, grey-headed flying-fox, masked owl, brush-tailed rock-wallaby, wompoo fruit-dove, koala and emu. Threats to these species include vegetation clearing and fragmentation, weed invasion and degradation of habitat. Environmental restoration work being undertaken includes weed control and planting of local native plants.
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Evans River catchment to coast corridors project 2009 - 2012
This project aims to maintain and improve terrestrial, riparian and aquatic environments in the Evans River area. EnviTE Environment is working with the community and land managers to implement restoration activities over three years. The project involves development of site action plans and implementation of on-ground restoration works (fencing, off-stream water, weed control, revegetation and structural works as required) to restore and enhance wildlife habitat and corridors. Restoration sites are selected at priority sites as identified in the Evans River Estuary Management Plan and the Oxleyan Pigmy Perch Recovery Plan.
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Invasive Species Weeds of National Significance (WONS) Lantana, 2009 -2011
This project targets restoration of three high conservation value sites within the Richmond catchment which contain habitat and populations of threatened species, are strategic links and have high levels of resilience. Works are targeting control of the weed of national significance, Lantana as well as raising awareness of the works amongst the broader community. These works value add to other projects already underway or previously undertaken on the sites.
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Funded by Caring for Our Country
Bungawalbin Creek Riparian Vegetation Enhancement: Cocks Comb Coral Tree Control (Community Coastcare) 2009-10
This project aims to rehabilitate Bungawalbin Creek from Bungawalbin National Park to 7.91 km downstream of Yarringully Nature Reserve through control of Coral Tree. Condition of the riparian zone has deteriorated due to excessive Cocks Comb Coral Tree invasion and dispersal which is severely impacting native vegetation. The confluence of Bungawalbin Creek and Richmond River is dominated by Cocks Comb Coral Tree, however upstream at the top of the project area the weed infestation is only light.
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Lowland Rainforest in the NSW North Coast Bioregion including the Clarence, Richmond, Brunswick and Tweed regions – proponent Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group (Open Grants Project) 2008-09
EnviTE Environment managed this project - the largest on-ground lowland rainforest rehabilitation project ever undertaken in Australia - which was supported by the Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group (BSRLG). The project continued a long-standing successful working relationship between BSRLG and EnviTE targeting the restoration of Big Scrub remnants over many years.
The project focused on 80 sites, covering about 380 hectares across Tweed, Bryon, Ballina and Lismore shires. Just over half the sites were within the Big Scrub and nearby Richmond Catchment. The remainder were within Tweed, Brunswick and Clarence catchments. The project included eight nature reserves and 17 local government sites.
A broard partnership of regional stakeholders was involved, including: DECCW, local councils, Rous Water and four local Landcare groups (Richmond, Tweed, Brunswick and Tuckombil).
The project aimed to restore and maintain the health of the Big Scrub remnants through weed control and monitoring. The Big Scrub was Australia's largest lowland subtropical rainforest area andcovered 75,000 hectares between Lismore, Byron Bay and Ballina. Only 1% remains but these remnants support a high diversity of rare and endangered plants and animals, and are of national and international conservation significance.
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Protect and Preserve Biodiversity at Nimbin Rocks & Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council Indigenous Training Program – proponent Ngulingah LALC (Working on Country Project) 2009-13
The Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council project, Protect and Preserve Biodiversity Working on Country Project at Nimbin Rocks, involves EnviTE Environment working with the Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) to implement an indigenous training program over a four year period. EnviTE Environment staff will mentor a team of eight rangers and a coordinator, to ensure best practice environmental outcomes at this significant indigenous site, are achieved. EnviTE trainers will be employed to train the team in Certificate II and III in Conservation and Land Management. EnviTE Environment was instrumental in writing this funding application that successfully netted 2.8 million dollars over four years.
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