Join a Revegetation Group
The Australian landscape has dramatically suffered from the arrival of European farming and our clear-fell domination of the native environment. This decline continues, even though we know it leads to salinity, soil acidification and erosion. It's time to heal what previous generations have harmed. Now it is our responsibility to start fixing the environment. Membership and involvement in a not-for-profit community revegetation group will fund and support the planting of hundreds of native seedlings each year.
How to do it now!
Join your local bushcare, swampcare or landcare group:
- Bushcare or check-out the Weeds of the Blue Mountains website
- Swampcare
- Bush Backyards
Plant a bush friendly garden without invasive species and control weeds on your property.
Contact the BMCC Biodiversity Conservation Officer, Michael Hensen on (02) 4780 5471 to see if there are projects for volunteers.
Find out more about revegetation in Australia. Here's a start to get you going:
Why this action is important?
Natural Resource Management (NRM) is the critical battleground for Australia over the next 50 years. We face a declining natural environment as a result of almost 200 years of mismanagement of our landscape, however well-intentioned some of the actions have been. As a result, we have dying river systems, salinity, soil acidification, invasive species and soil loss. To add to these problems is the emerging issue of climate change, including increasingly higher temperatures and scarce, yet heavy rainfall due to global warming. As a result we are trying to overcome human inertia and politics to revive a dying continent in a changing climate. The time has come to join up and help out those frontline groups implementing appropriate NRM practices across the country.
