Coastal Dunes Community Planting Day
Event description
Join this community PLANTING day to help protect and restore our local sand dune environment.
This is a great way to get up close to our local environment, learn more about these special places and play your part in protecting them.
This planting event is hosted by Semaphore Largs Dunes Group and Taperoo Dunes and facilitated by Trees for Life staff as part of the Coastal Sand Dune Rehabilitation Project. This project is supported by Green Adelaide and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
We hope lots of community members will come along and lend a hand.
Please register to attend this FREE community session so we can manage event attendance.
School groups, local businesses, corporate groups and community groups are welcome to attend as a group. Please check in with event organisers to find out more (email semaphoredunes@gmail.com).
Children: This event is aimed at adults, but older children are welcome to attend (we suggest 12 and over). As we will be working in a sensitive environment we don't feel these events are suitable for younger children. If you are bringing older children along please book them a ticket, and note that all children must be accompanied by a guardian and be appropriately supervised at all times.
Location and Meeting spot: Planting will take place either side of the Strathfield Terrace walkway where the Semaphore Largs and Taperoo Dunes group 'patches' come together. Meet at the southern end of the Taperoo dunes carpark on Lady Gowrie Drive (opposite Fort Largs).
Detailed instructions will be emailed to registered participants the week before including the meeting location, contact numbers, what to bring, weather, safety and other requirements for the day
About the Coastal Sand Dune Rehabilitation Project
The Coastal Sand Dune Rehabilitation Project is a volunteer driven project covering the stretch of coast between Semaphore and North Haven, plus heading inland to
Biodiversity Park. The project contributes to the maintenance, restoration and enhancement of the coastal dune system and Biodiversity Park on LeFevre Peninsula. The aim of the project is to increase biodiversity through re-vegetation, weed and pest control, and to create a coastal and coast to river biodiversity link over time.
During 2021 / 2022 a series of community weeding days were held, plus training opportunities for local volunteers to improve their plant identification skills, and professional contract work to tackle some of the more difficult weeds and water new plantings. The project will continue through 2022 / 2023.
This project is fostering community involvement and connections, while helping people to learn about and contribute to their local environment.
To hear about other upcoming activities, please join the Port Environment Centre email list HERE or connect with your local volunteer group:
- Semaphore Largs Dunes Group
- Taperoo Dunes
- Friends of North Haven
- PAREPG (Port Adelaide Residents Environment Protection Group)
The Coastal Sand Dune Rehabilitation Project is funded by Green Adelaide and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. The project has received two rounds of funding from the Green Adelaide Grassroots Grants program which aims to support wide ranging efforts by individuals and groups to maintain and improve their local environment.
This project is an initiative of Semaphore Largs Dunes Group, Taperoo Dunes Group, Friends of North Haven Sand Dunes, Port Adelaide Resident's Environment Protection Group (PAREPG) and the City of Port Adelaide Enfield.
Port Environment Centre is pleased to be supporting this great, local, volunteer driven project.
The Port Environment Centre is seeded by Green Adelaide.
Attendee information may be used for follow up evaluation, in order to assess the longer term impacts of our events. Follow up contact may be made (in the form of a survey) but participation in any evaluation is optional.
Photos from Taperoo Dunes - www.facebook.com/TaperooDunes