Weaving Back The Banks

Ocean health relies on river health. And never have the rivers of the Northern Rivers been so ravaged by erosion, as well as the toxicity of debris. Will you come and weave the river back together with us?

On February 28th, along with tens of thousands of others, we experienced the most catastrophic flood in Australian recorded history. We have stared directly at the thousands of tonnes of top soil slipping into the river, the Eucalypts and the Casuarinas falling, creating more vulnerable riverbanks for future heavy rainfall events, suffocating the ocean. Choking reefs - the lungs of planet earth.

We are not helpless to these events, nor are we innocent in them. Right now we are sitting in a critical window where much of the weed is washed away, the banks are exposed and the opportunity is sitting right there to put back into the banks the mighty trees and grasses that hold the river whole.

WEAVING BACK THE BANKS: is a planting initiative to put lomandras back on the banks, starting with the regen initiative The Prana Farm with it’s 600metres of Richmond River banks and working our way upriver onto private land held by custodians who are willing to caretake their banks and their newly planted babies.

Our work is to keep our mighty rivers clean and our oceans alive. It's not too late but the time for action is on top of us.