Workshop - Rainforest Reflections & Lessons

This project, Goonengerry Landcare Group’s Restoration and Rehabilitation Project 2022, is the most recent in over 10 years of continually funded projects. It continues Goonengerry Landcare’s long-term and successful environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation Program by providing an important extension to existing restoration on adjacent private properties carried out as part of a variety of other Environment Trust-funded projects and privately funded works. As most of the land in the surrounding LGAs is in private ownership, the role of private landholders in landscape restoration is critical. The proposed restoration sites will extend the wildlife corridor and habitat network in the area, facilitating greater resilience of the adjacent protected area network to the west (Mount Jerusalem, Nightcap and Goonengerry National Parks). Habitat restoration is critical in ensuring both the long-term survival of the area’s unique biodiversity and the resilience of our biodiversity to a changing climate. Our main methodology of assisted natural regeneration will convert bushland dominated by Lantana and Camphor Laurel to diverse Lowland Subtropical Rainforest.