Showing posts with label land restoration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land restoration. Show all posts

Monday, June 29, 2009

Two months to go

To all our valued visitors and prospective participants,
The 'Caring for Country: Restoring Land and Cultural Understanding' workshop is past approaching, please don't hesitate to contact us for further information and securing your place as we only offering limited places.


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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Coorong Biodiversity Restoration Project (CBRP)

Henry's Island

Photograph by Malcolm Haines

ABOUT THE RESTORATION PROJECT (CBRP)
… jointly administered and operated by the Coorong Wilderness Lodge (CWL) and the University of South Australia (UNISA) and team of volunteers.

The Coorong Biodiversity Restoration Project is a research-based land restoration program. The purpose of this program is to demonstrate the application of ecological principles and strategies to integrate scientific and cultural land restoration approaches, using examples of:

*Research on local ecosystems with students, lecturers and visiting
experts, through a partnership with traditional land owners

*Cultural knowledge by the local custodian the Ngarrindjeri people,

*Enhancing natural regeneration with the assistance of the local birds(emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) and other fauna,

*Designing habitats for threatened species and sustainable ecosystems orange-bellied
parrot, Neophema chrysogaster, southern emu-wren, Stipiturus malachurus (race intermedius , sand goanna, Varanus gouldii/rosenbergi)

*Planting and monitoring of a mix of local species on extensively degraded land