Building on recovery works
The Helping Hands for the Sheoak project, supported by the Natural Resource Conservation Trust (NRCT) has had a kick-start with a partner tour of proposed planting sites and works undertaken to date.
The aim of the project is to continue the recovery of valuable Sheoak stands on private land, which will have multiple benefits, including providing more feed trees for the nationally endangered Glossy Black-cockatoo.
Grants and Partnerships Manager, Robyn Edwards, explains that “this Wildlife Unlimited project is partnering with landholders, Biodiversity Legacy, Far East Victoria Landcare Group, Moogji Aboriginal Council and Friends of Mallacoota”.
Robyn adds, “As part of the tour we visited two properties participating in the project and the Moogji Aboriginal Council nursery where Sheoaks for planting are being grown. The group also looked at a different protective guarding installed by the project, where heavy browsing of previously planted seedlings had been occurring.”
Far East Victoria Landcare Facilitator, Josh Puglisi, notes that “larger exclusion fences and other types of tree guards will be utilised across the sites as browsing by deer and macropods are the biggest threat to the establishment of the seedlings”.
This tree planting project builds on the Landcare, Birdlife Australia and DEECA Sheoak recovery works that were undertaken as part of the Black Summer bushfires response. Project sites range from Lakes Entrance and Marlo through to Wangarabell and Genoa in the east.
Banner photo with thanks to John Tann via Flickr.