Original story at WetlandCare Australia: Helping Hands Improve Wetland Habitat at Pasturage Reserve
WetlandCare Australia have worked in partnership with Bundaberg Regional Council, Friends of Pasturage Reserve, Bundaberg Landcare, Gidarjil rangers, the local Impact team and the Bargara Lions Club to undertake the planting of 950 local native trees at Pasturage Reserve.
Pasturage Reserve, adjoining the coastal village of Bargara, is one of the 20 important wetlands targeted for environmental restoration works under WetlandCare Australia’s $2.5 million Coastal 20 wetlands restoration project, funded under the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country program. The area is of high conservation value because it contains one of the few melaleuca swamp remnants along the Burnett-Elliott coast and provides habitat for threatened species.
WetlandCare Australia staff, Gidarjil Rangers, Impact team members and Landcare volunteers worked together to plant over 950 native trees at Pasturage Reserve last week.
Bundaberg Council and the local Impact team had done a fantastic job of preparing the site prior to the planting day on Wednesday 17th April. Over 950 wetland seedlings had been carefully propagated by the Bundaberg Landcare nursery and the willing and capable hands of the Gidarjil ranger group, Impact team and Landcare volunteers along with WetlandCare Australia staff made fast work of getting the young plants carefully installed into their new surroundings. The hard-working team was sustained by a BBQ lunch kindly provided and prepared by the Bargara Lions Club.
The success of the tree planting event was a direct result of a strong collaboration between the partner organisations and the local community. Adam Gosling, Regional Coordinator at WetlandCare Australia, said “This is a great example of what can be achieved when everyone works together towards a common goal. WetlandCare Australia could not have achieved such a great result without the collaboration and support of these groups and local community”
This successful planting project will increase coastal native vegetation and habitat, enhancing the existing remnant paperbark and estuarine vegetation communities at Pasturage Reserve. Revegetation of the area will also reduce the impacts of invasive weed species and will improve water quality to the adjacent important turtle breeding areas.
For more information on the Coastal 20 project please contact:
Laura White
Senior Project Officer
02 6681 6169
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