Rooted in resilience - restoration goals and seed supply

Through the FDF LLR project we have realized that implementation of our restoration and climate resilience recommendations ( especially the goal of 70% localprovenance:30% climate analogue sourcing of seed or plants) has slipped and is increasingly constrained by seed supply. We also have recognized that we have a lot of revegetation that doesn’t achieve “whole ecosystem” restoration, especially in grassy ecosystems. As larger scale carbon and biodiversity plantings are implemented as part of market-driven activity, how can we improve the outcomes? How do we address threatened species? How do we address this issue with seed supply?

A morning of speakers:

Martin Driver - Regional perspective on the last 30 years of restoration and regional seed supply

Paul Gibson-Roy - Native Grassy Communities - From Restoration to Nature Repair

Samantha Craigie , Greening Australia - Project Phoenix – what did we learn and what’s happened since then?

Natasha Lappin, Seedbank Coordinator - Murray Seed Services – local seed collection and supply issues and resilience in to the future

Peter Dixon, Landcare NSW Seed supply and revegetation business – what is Landcare NSW doing?

Q & A panel discussion

In the afternoon we will head out to Murrumbidgee Valley National Park Revegetation sites 1.30 -3.30pm.

Hosted by MLi Leigh Matheison and NPWS Ranger Lauryn Harper, a self drive out to the Park (approx 12km) to look at NPWS Sandhill revegetation efforts and continue the discussion