| Project Name | Service Provider | Location | Project Description |
|---|
| Protection of biodiversity 'hotspots' in the Eurobodalla |
Greening Australia |
Moruya |
The project will focus on conserving and enhancing the environmental condition of valuable riparian and coastal zones. It also provides support to Landcare and Dunecare groups across the Shire. The Green Corps participants will be involved in fencing and fence maintenance, seed collecting and propagating, installing interpretive signage, maintaining walking tracks, participating in a shore bird recovery program and installing a native garden at the local Youth Centre. |
| Rainforest Botanic Gardens and fauna habitat improvements around Lismore |
Greening Australia |
Lismore |
The purpose of the project is to create opportunities for the community for passive recreation in the area as well as providing suitable habitat for fauna within this urban corridor. The project will also improve the biodiversity of Tucki Tucki Creek. Project activities include developing a sensory garden, installing an Indigenous bush tucker garden, constructing a BBQ in the Friends of the Koala planting area, installing plant label posts and undertaking paving in selected areas. |
| Uralla Subcatchment Works and Tribal Tracks Team |
Greening Australia |
Uralla |
This project will be working with the Southern New England Landcare group to improve aspects of Uralla’s waterways. The participants will encourage bank stabilisation and habitat improvement through planting and erosion control, increase community awareness of natural resource management through educational material, protect sites of cultural heritage from vehicles through erecting steel bollards and protecting remnant vegetation and plantings through weeding and fencing. |
| Camden Airport, River Flat Eucalypt Forest Regeneration and Maintenance |
Greening Australia |
Camden |
The purpose of this project is to improve the biodiversity at the Camden Airport site and to add value to previous restoration works. The team will be involved in managing a range of environmental restoration activities which include establishing a Bushcare group for the area, photo point monitoring, undertaking bird surveys, removing weeds, planting native vegetation, seed collection and propagation. |
| Greening South and Ropes Creek |
Greening Australia |
Ropes Creek |
The purpose of the project is to undertake environmental restoration at Ropes Creek which includes the Endangered Ecological Community Sydney Coastal River Flat Forest. In addition to this, the Green Corps team will assist in the development of a community nursery and native seed production facility. The participants will be involved in collecting and propagating native seed, planting and maintaining sites, establishing production facilities for rare native groundcovers, undertaking targeted weed removal, assessing and surveying fauna habitat, facilitating community engagement and assisting local Bushcare groups with public tree planting days. |
| Foreshore Restoration Project - Port Macquarie / Camden Haven |
Greening Australia |
Port Macquarie |
This project will be working with the Port Macquarie Landcare Group to improve degradation caused by wave action and pedestrian and vehicle movements. The main areas of work will be undertaken at Pelican Point, Middle Rock and Henry Kendall Reserve. The participants will be involved in activities including installing fencing and pathways, designing and erecting signs, planting native vegetation and removing weeds. |
| Creating Cultural Cohesion at Buronga, NSW |
Greening Australia |
Buronga |
Project activities will occur in the Riverine Section of the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens. This is a not for profit community operated organisation. The Green Corps team will, among other activities, design and install a ‘sclerophyll’ garden bed consisting of plants that have adapted to survive in arid areas; monitor water usage using Enviroscan technology (a technique used to determine the water needs of plants); carry out biodiversity monitoring and pest animal and pest planting monitoring; undertake track rationalisation; construct nature trails, install interpretative signage and implement erosion control measures using environmentally friendly materials. |
| Farm Based Mentoring and Threatened Species Conservation at Broughton |
Job Futures |
Nowra |
This project is located at ‘A Taste of Paradise’ – a not for profit farm based project established in 1999 as a Mentoring and Work Experience Project for teenagers between 13 and 20 years of age. The Green Corps team will undertake activities such as regeneration of conservation areas including planting and propagation of tree species that prove to be good sequesters of carbon; research National Climate Change strategies and actions and identify opportunities to promote carbon offsets by tree planting; conduct climate awareness field days and work with Berry Landcare/Futurecare in setting up a ‘Clearing House’ to share information on the environment. The team will also participate in fauna and flor surveys and enhance their cultural awareness through study of Indigenous plant uses at Booderee Botanical Gardens (as part of their accredited training). |
| Blackbutt Environment and Community Corridor |
Job Futures |
Shellharbour |
The project aims to address a range of environmental challenges including eradication of invasive weeds and removal of informal tracks impacting on the natural habitat of wildlife. Participants will be involved in activities such as restoring and preserving local habitats and ecosystems through revegetation, formalising public tracks and blocking off alternative pathways with strategic planting of native species, fostering community involvement in the restoration and conservation of the site by providing information and education on the importance of the site and participating in the collecting, cleaning and propagating of native seed. |
| Picton Caring for Stonequarry Creek Country Project |
Job Futures |
Picton |
The purpose of this project is to involve participants in the environmental development of the Picton shire. This will be done through activities in the Aboriginal education space in the Wollondilly Shire Council’s Caring for Stonequarry Creek Country garden, assisting the Picton community nursery and working with local Landcare groups to restore a number of degraded sites. Activities include collecting and propagating native seed, planting seedlings, conducting water monitoring activities and removing weeds. |
| Katoomba Wildplant Rescue Nursery Project |
Job Futures |
Katoomba |
The purpose of this project is to expose the youth of the Blue Mountains to the diversity of work involved in conservation and land management and will also increase their knowledge of the traditional custodians’ use of the land. Participants will undertake water conservation activities by installing an overhead watering system in a nursery, weeding activities, collecting and storing seeds, propagating seedling plants, undertaking water quality testing with Streamwatch and undertaking erosion control activities. |
| Richmond River Care - Environmental Action and Community Education |
Job Futures |
Kyogle |
This project will provide the opportunity to work in diverse riparian environments that occur in the Richmond River catchment and learn how different communities approach a range of environmental issues. Participants will work alongside some of the most experienced community volunteers, bush regenerators, and conservation workers in the district. Project activities include planting local provenance native trees, undertaking weed control activities, undertaking one vegetation and three fauna surveys, establishing photo monitoring points within the project site and encouraging community groups to continue the monitoring and undertaking of an erosion, safety and damage audit of all existing trails along Fawcett’s Creek and make recommendations for remedial action and repairs. |
| Bomen Industrial Wildlife Corridor Project |
Job Futures |
Wagga Wagga |
This project aims to assist a region, once covered by Grassy White Box Woodland, to redress the current degraded state of the land. Some of the immediate concerns include native animal habitat loss, erosion, natural area degradation, salinity issues and weed invasion. Project activities include assisting with track closure and rehabilitation, controlling woody weeds, fencing to allow for the natural regeneration of native species, nursery maintenance including rebuilding hothouses and propagation of trees for future use by Landcare groups. |
| Bendemeer, McDonald River Restoration Project |
Job Futures |
Bendemeer |
The participants on this project will work with the Bendemeer Community Development Committee to address environmental issues affecting the McDonald River by increasing native animal habitat, erosion control, improving natural flora habitat, remove weeds and increase access to the McDonald River for amenity use. The participants will also undertake some restoration works on the McDonald River Bridge, install signage at War Memorial Park and produce a brochure to promote the area to visitors. |
| Long Jetty and Gosford Lagoons Rehabilitation Project |
Job Futures |
Central Coast |
This project will see participants involved in addressing the degradation of foreshore areas and biodiversity loss suffered as a result of development. Participants will work with local communities to raise awareness and increase community activity in rehabilitation activities around the lagoons. Project activities include rehabilitating native vegetation, collecting and propagating seeds, monitoring of seagrass and vertebrate species on Tuggerah Lake Foreshore, undertaking community education campaigns and undertaking erosion and sediment control activities. |
| Get Involved in Gosford and Lakes Bushland Restoration and Conservation |
Job Futures |
Gosford |
The purpose of the project is to assist volunteers to reduce weed mass and preserve endangered ecological communities using bush regeneration techniques. Participants will learn about Australian flora and fauna, regeneration in the native bushland and fauna habitat at the Australian Reptile Park. They will also gain skills relevant to the landscaping industry such as planning, budgeting and constructing garden beds. Project activities include protecting habitat of native fauna, undertaking flora and fauna surveys, weed removal and monitoring, animal track and scat identification and seed collection and plant propagation. |
| Blackbutt Reserve Creek Rehabilitation and Bushland Restoration Project |
Job Futures |
Newcastle |
This project will focus on four areas of Blackbutt Reserve that have been degraded due to a range of environmental influences. Participants will be involved in landscape construction as well as conservation and land management practices. Project activities include weed surveys and infestation mapping, seed collection and plant propagation, erosion control and water quality testing and monitoring. |
| Hunter River Rehabilitation Project |
Job Futures |
Singleton |
The project will target natural resource management issues identified in the Hunter River Rivercare Plan. The participants will have the opportunity to work closely with landholders and the Singleton community to restore river bank stability, enhance biodiversity and improve water quality. Project activities include stabilising banks through revegetation activities, providing a native vegetation corridor to facilitate the movement of fauna species, constructing picnic shelters, implementing monitoring programs with community groups and schools and facilitating key public events such as tree planting days and weed buster week. |
| Ngioka's Seeds of Knowledge Project at Port Stephens |
Job Futures |
Port Stephens |
The participants on this project will assist and support the volunteers at the Ngioka Centre in producing propagated plant stock and undertake foreshore and conservation and erosion works at Soldiers Point. The participants will also be trained and supervised in the collection of seeds and learn techniques on treating seeds and the processes of seed propagating. Other activities include plant identification, nursery management skills such as fertilising, stock transfer, nursery logistics, setting up photo monitoring points, weeding and reporting. |