Rainforest Restoration Tour

Next date: Sunday, 22 September 2024 | 01:00 PM to 03:00 PM

Restoration is like baking a cake: you need a recipe, some basic ingredients and a willingness to listen, observe, and learn. No-one makes a perfect cake first try, right? Join Ecologist Bill Peel for a workshop on rainforest restoration and a tour of his home's rainforest restoration project. Learn about how to approach rainforest restoration in the Bellingen climate.

This workshop will include:

• a tour of a pre-regen site at the Point on the Bellinger River
• a tour of a home restoration project that hosts many rare and threatened species of plants and animals, some of which are breeding, and
• handouts: listing restoration and weed manuals, books on plant identification, propagation, and local contacts.

Learn the basic toolkit to begin YOUR PROJECT, including:

• what plants
• staging: planting sequences, seasons and the right plants
• when and where to plant
• where to obtain your plants (propagate or buy)
• how and when to weed
• how to manage it so you succeed and enjoy the restoration
• project ideas for all budgets and sites, and
• measuring success.

ABOUT OUR PROJECT: It began in 2014 as a Camphor Laurel forest with a privet understorey on an ephemeral tributary of Connell Creek. Now a thriving ecosystem it hosts over 300 plant species (180 are self- regenerating), 147 birds recorded (50 birds breeding), 18 reptiles, 12 mammals, 10 frogs, and innumerable butterflies, invertebrates and fungi. The project protects and provides habitat for: 2 nationally threatened ecological communities, 7 threatened plants, 1 threatened mammal and 30 migratory birds. AND IT IS ONLY 0.2 OF A HECTARE! 

Places are limited to 15 so booking is essential. Book via Humanitix: 

https://events.humanitix.com/rainforest-restoration-tour-and-workshop-2

If your plans change and you can't attend please refund your "ticket" ahead of time so that other people can join us.

This event is proudly brought to you by Bellingen Shire Council and the Bellingen Shire Learning Alliance.

When

Location

The Point, James Eather Way, Bellingen, 2454, View Map