Join a revegetation group

Community groups are planting seedlings and revegetating our lost native bushes and grasslands. Why not join a group and do your bit for the environment?

The Australian landscape has dramatically suffered from the arrival of European farming and our clear-fell domination of the native environment. This decline continues, even though we know it leads to salinity, soil acidification and erosion. It's time to heal what previous generations have harmed. Now it is our responsibility to start fixing the environment. Membership and involvement in a not-for-profit community revegetation group will fund and support the planting of hundreds of native seedlings each year.

How to do it now!

Find a revegetation group in your community. Here's a start to get you going:

Greening Australia (National)
Landcare (National)
Bush Heritage Australia (National)

Community Environment Groups

A range of community groups are active in protecting and restoring the environment. Groups include the traditional "care" groups (Land, Coast and Bush). Other groups focus on environmental education and training while others provide employment opportunities.

Taree Landcare - 6552 3813
Cundletown Landcare - 6553 9562
Hallidays Point Landcare - 6559 3365
Manning Landcare - 6557 0244
Mid Manning Landcare - 6550 6224
Killabakh & Lower Cedar Party - 6550 5734
Wherrol Flat Landcare - 6557 0244
Lansdowne Sandy Point - 6556 7105
Dyers Crossing Landcare - dyerscrossing_landcare@yahoo.com.au
Manning Bushcare - 6553 3843
Wingham Bushcare - 0427 018 645
Manning Coastcare - 6556 5099
Wallabi Point Coastcare - 6553 7233
Manning Environment Education Group (MEEG) - 6552 3813
Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority
PO Box 440, TAREE 2430
Location: 98 Victoria St, Taree
Phone: 6551 8994
Web: http://www.hcr.cma.nsw.gov.au/

Council supports regular community activities. There are many opportunities to become involved. You can join in with an existing group or attend a forthcoming event.

Why is this action important?

Natural Resource Management (NRM) is the critical battleground for Australia over the next 50 years. We face a declining natural environment as a result of almost 200 years of mismanagement of our landscape, however well-intentioned some of the actions have been. As a result, we have dying river systems, salinity, soil acidification, invasive species and soil loss. To add to these problems is the emerging issue of climate change, including increasingly higher temperatures and scarce, yet heavy rainfall due to global warming. As a result we are trying to overcome human inertia and politics to revive a dying continent in a changing climate. The time has come to join up and help out those frontline groups implementing appropriate NRM practices across the country.

Related actions

Environment

To stabilise and reverse the declining Australian landscape and avoid the continued reduction of our productive agricultural capacity and natural systems we need to revitalise NRM practices in this country. Put simply, the drought we are witnessing with the accompanying expansion of deserts, decline of farm productivity and death of natural systems, is a direct result of our failure to implement appropriate Natural Resource Management practices in the place of those natural systems we have devastated over the past 200 years.

Wellbeing

No one likes to pay for things they have used when they used them thinking they were free. But, when we pay for items we use that come from the environment and we contemplate what happened we taste honour and sense what redemption must feel like. So with this action there is lots of hard work which will benefit the body (ho hum) but interestingly there is honour and redemption at stake which will allow us to look our grandkids in the eye without shame as we hand this big brown land over to them.