NEARLY 40 Rye Primary School Year 4 students recently rolled up their sleeves for a planting session with the Friends of Rye Foreshore. The Friends Coordinator, Mechelle Cheers and shire NatureLinks contractor, Sue Wade, were thrilled with having so many extra pairs of hands to help with a mass planting of indigenous hairy spinifex along the western end of the town beach. This hardy and quite beautiful indigenous grass helps retain the beach structure by stabilising sand movement. Teacher, Sandra Emile said students were enthusiastic with having the opportunity to make a difference while learning why the spinifex is better…
Browsing: Revegetation
A DEDICATED team of conservation volunteers have been left heartbroken after vandals tore through a newly planted section of the Balcombe Estuary Reserve in Mt Martha, destroying hours of revegetation work.The incident, which was discovered on 30 September, saw dozens of young native plants, as well as protective stakes and guards pulled and strewn across in an area called Rabbit Paddock south of Ferrero Reserve.The damaged site was part of a community-led effort spearheaded by the Balcombe Estuary Reserves Group (BERG) Mt Martha to restore native habitat and support wildlife by planting indigenous grasses, shrubs, trees and ground covers.BERG, which…