Our Local Environment Biodiversity
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This document provides information about the local environment, including native plants, animals, habitats, and how to protect biodiversity. It discusses common local wildlife such as ibises, rainbow lorikeets, eastern rosellas, possums, and eastern bearded dragons. It encourages helping native wildlife by adding food, shelter, and water in backyards. The document also addresses threats like pollution, litter, and improper feeding of birds. It describes how rainwater carries litter and chemicals into rivers, oceans, and explains ways residents can help like washing cars on grass and properly disposing of waste. Finally, it outlines actions the local council is taking to address pollution through raingardens, wetlands, litter booms,
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Our Local Environment Biodiversity
- 1. Our Local Environment August 2017
- 3. Vocabulary Wildlife – animals that live in the wild, not pets Diurnal – animals that feed during the day Nocturnal – feeds and moves around at night
- 4. Habitat
- 5. Biodiversity Bio –living things, plants and animals Diversity – many different things, Variety Therefore BIO+DIVERSITY = A VARIETY OF LIVING THINGS
- 6. Local Native Plants Sydney Red Gum Angophora Costata Not a true eucalypt despite being known as a gum tree
- 7. Native Plants Weeping Bottle Brush Grows along the edge of waterways
- 8. Native Plants Downy Wattle Threatened species- Protected by law
- 9. Local Native Animals Ibis are native Australian animals . They originally lived further west in NSW but moved to Sydney during a period of drought. Due to the access to food and water they have stayed and thrived here.
- 10. Local Native Animals Rainbow Lorikeet are one of our iconic local animals . A screechy fast flyer this bird can often be seen in flocks in our local parks and trees.
- 11. Local Native Animals Eastern Rosella’s are similar to rainbow lorikeets but with red heads. This bird makes a soft piping sound.
- 12. Local Native Animals Possums can be seen at night in trees and on roofs! They eat fruit and nectar from flowers
- 13. Local Native Animals Eastern Bearded Dragons Growing up to 60cm in length these dragons are less fierce than their fairy- tale versions Photo: Dragonfly environmental
- 14. Feeding Birds • Feeding can harm animals • Spreads disease • Causes damage to property • Attracts pests – rats
- 16. Backyard Buddy You can help native wildlife by being a backyard buddy. - Add food with native plants - Add shelter with rocks and places for animals to hide - Add water with a birdbath or pond - Remove danger by keeping cats inside at night
- 17. Pollution, litter, and what we all need to do
- 18. Where does the rain go? Roof Gutter Drain River Ocean Litter, Oil and Other Chemicals wash off our roads, houses and driveways and go into our drains Unlike Sewage rainwater is not treated, what goes down the drain ends up in the ocean.
- 19. The Majority of our council is part of the Cooks and Georges River catchments with a small section in the north draining to the Parramatta river
- 20. Stormwater You can help protect the drains by - Washing your car on the grass - Picking up after your dog - Putting all your rubbish in a bin - Clean up water based paint on the grass, dispose of oil based paint at chemical cleanouts - Collect leaves from the gutter and put them in the green bin And Remember The drain is just for rain
- 21. Litter Litter is anything left behind including packaging, food scraps and cigarette butts Littering is not only bad for the environment but is illegal. Littering from a car results in a $250 fine. Litter will eventually entre the stormwater and flow into the ocean where animals will mistake it for food.
- 22. What does Council do? Littering • Educational Programs • Street bins Pollution • Raingardens • Recreated wetlands • Litter booms • Gross Pollutant Traps
- 23. Raingardens
- 24. Litter Booms
- 26. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- The City of Canterbury Bankstown is a new council formed by the joining of Bankstown and Canterbury councils in 2016. The council has a population of almost 360 thousand people with a land size of 11 000 hectares. By population we are the largest Council in NSW. This this many people comes a wide range of environmental issues.
- To start with we are going to look at a few words that are often used when talking about the environment. When we talk about wildlife we mean animals that live in the wild, looking after them selves with out people. Wildlife is most animals but not pets like cats and dogs. Nocturnal are those that come out at night, the opposite to humans.
- When we talk about nature we often refer to Habitat. Habitat is the combination of things that animals need to live healthy happy lives. Habitat is the combination of food water and shelter.
- We also talk about biodiversity. Biodiversity can be split into the two base words bio, referring to living things such as plants and animals and diversity meaning many different things. If we combine bio and diversity we get biodiversity the variety of living things. Much like eating a range of foods is good for people, having many different plants and animals living together is good for the environment. This is because different plants and animals depend on each other for shelter and food. To start our talk on biodiversity we will look at some native plants , also known as flora and animals also known as fauna
- The Sydney red gum or as it is scientifically know angophora costata is not actually a eucalypt despite being know as a gum tree. It got the name Sydney red gum from the bark that turns pink before falling off.
- Our area is home to many different types of bottle brush. The one in the picture is called a weeping bottle brush. It grows along the edge of water ways such as rivers and creeks.
- This plant known as the downy wattle is one of many types of wattle that can be found across the Sydney area. What makes this one different is that there are very few of them left . Because there are so few this species is listed as vulnerable and is protected by the law
- Ibis are are native animals living in the wetlands in western NSW. During a long period of drought in the late 1990’s they moved to the Sydney region. Due to the good supply of food and water the ibis have stayed and they are now thriving. In their natural habitat ibis eat small water animals which they catch with their long beaks.
- Another iconic local animal is the rainbow lorikeet. These can often be heard due to their loud screeching and the way they live in large groups. Locally these birds are found just across the road in the trees surrounding the library and in chapel street. They can be identified by their blue heads and orange chests.
- Rosellas look very similar to rainbow lorikeets but can be identified by their red heads.
- Possums are found in suburbs all across Australia, living in roofs and trees. They are nocturnal and can be heard running across roves at night. Possums mainly herbivores eating fruit They are cute but can become aggressive if they are threatened so its best to keep a safe distance.
- Not all our local animals are cute and fluffy. This is a bearded Dragon. They get their name from the spikes around their neck which they can stick out to make themselves look scarier!
- It is important that we do not feed these birds as human food such as rice and bread are bad for birds .
- To protect our local animals we have a series of biodiversity corridors. These allow animals to safely travel between areas to look for food, water and shelter. Backyards, schools and parks are important in allowing animals to move around safely.
- Humans are the cause for most of the damage to the environment. Little acts that we do everyday can make big differences to the health of our natural areas and the wildlife that calls them home. The first thing we will look at is stormwater.
- When it rains water hitting roads and rooves flows into the gutter and down the drain. From here it reaches our creeks and rivers ending up in the ocean. On its way it will collect pollution. This is from a range of sources. Water on roads picks up oil and litter. We can even trace Tabaco from people dropping cigarette ash out of car windows! Rain on gardens collects any excess fertiliser and dog poo and washes it into the drain. None of you would like to swim in oil, litter and dog poo and neither do our local birds and fish. Council has some methods to reduce the amount of this pollution that reaches our water ways and we will look at this more next week on our visit to the wetlands and lake Gillawarna.
- Most of our city is covered by the Georges River and Cooks river catchments with both of these rivers joining the ocean at Botany Bay. A small part of the northern end of our LGA drains into the Parramatta river and into Sydney Harbour.
- There is a lot that we need to do in our lives to protect our stormwater. None of which are difficult but will make a huge difference Council has some methods to reduce the amount of this pollution that reaches our water ways which we will see on our visit to the wetlands and lake Gillawarna.
- There are a range of things we do as a council to improve our local environment on a range of scales. , just me being here talking to you could cause you to rethink some little things you do and will have an impact on our environment. We also do bigger campaigns to prevent pollution and litter. To try and prevent litter council runs education programs in local parks where staff members send their Sundays talking to people about the ways that their litter will harm the environment. We also place street bins around areas where people will have rubbish such as picnic tables, playgrounds and near food shops. Along both the Georges River and the Cook river we have recreated wetland areas that had previously been destroyed these are programs working with other councils, and government organisations. We will look into gross pollutant traps and recreated wetlands on our excursion next week
- From above rain gardens look like regular garden beds but under the ground important environmental protection is at work. The garden collects water in heavy rain events the water if filtered through the garden before slowly running into a drain. This is better than if the surface was concrete where the unfiltered water would rush into the drain.
- Litter Booms are placed in rivers to catch litter that is floating downstream. These are them emptied regularly by hand. While this catches litter and stops it reaching the ocean. It would be better if everyone didn’t litter and we wouldn’t need these engineered solutions.
- This is the most simple form of a gross pollutant trap. The net catches and litter or leaves allowing the water to flow through, just like a net you use to clean a pool. The trap needs to be emptied regularly to stop the drain blocking. Along our rivers we have some more complicated traps that use both a screen and plants to filter the water.