As part of the Monitoring program for our Biodiversity Fund project supported by the Australian Government Clean Energy Future package we have revisited some 20 year revegetation sites to see how they have faired. This presentation summarises the results from two revegetation sites.

1. Biodiversity Fund monitoring:
Progress of two 20 year old
revegetation sites
Tanzi Smith and Caitlin Mill

2. BioCondition Assessments conducted
• Based on Regional
Ecosystem (RE)
• RE 12.3.7 Eucalyptus
tereticornis,
Casuarina
cunninghamiana
subsp.
cunninghamiana ±
Melaleuca spp.
fringing woodland.

3. 1. Burton’s on the estuary

4. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Baseline
Burtons, Mary River
BioCondition (Site-based Attributes)
Tree Canopy Score
Shrub Layer Score
Ground Layer Score
Recruitment of Canopy Species
Score
Native Plant Species Richness
Score
Non-native Plant Cover Score

5. Overall
• Despite reports the
remaining reveg is
progressing well
– Few weeds
– Leaf litter
– Regeneration
• Beware….

6. 2. Anderson’s at The Palms

7. The rat story

8. 2004
2013

9. Snow in summer taking the
brunt of flood waters and
protecting the reveg site

10. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Baseline
Andersons, Mary River
BioCondition (Site-based Attributes)
Tree Canopy Score
Shrub Layer Score
Ground Layer Score
Recruitment of Canopy
Species Score
Native Plant Species
Richness Score
Non-native Plant Cover
Score

11. Overall
• Landholder is very happy with how the
revegetation has protected the bank
• Site needs a helping hand
• Some Cats Claw, Chinese Elm,
balloon vine
• Dense pasture grass as groundcover
• Very little natural regeneration
• Slumps are continuing upstream of
the project site
• Biodiversity Fund project to commence
here this financial year

12. River
listening:
landholder
loved this
too!