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Join a revegetation group

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Community groups are planting seedlings and revegetating our lost native bushes and grasslands. Find a group and join in!

The Australian landscape has suffered massively from the arrival of European farming and our clear-fell domination of the native environment. This decline continues, even though we now know it leads to salinity, soil acidification and erosion. It’s time to heal what previous generations have harmed. A membership and involvement in a not-for-profit community revegetation group will fund and support the planting of hundreds of native seedlings per year.

How to do it now!

Find a revegetation group in your community. Here’s a start to get you going:

Many local councils run community based Bushcare programs, so check your local council website for more information

Envite are a not-for-profit organisation with over fifteen years experience working to make a difference in local communities on the NSW north coast. EnVITE provide training, work experience and employment opportunities.

NSW North Coast Weeds Advisory Committee – The North Coast Weeds Advisory Committee is the leading organisation for weeds in the NSW north coast region, comprising all key stakeholders involved in weed management from Nambucca Shire to the Queensland border.

Why this action is important?

Natural Resource Management (NRM) is the critical battleground for Australia over the next 50+ years. We face a declining natural environment as a result of approximately 200 years of (well-intentioned) mismanagement of our landscape. As a result we have dying river systems, salinity, soil acidification, invasive species and soil loss. In addition, and making this harder, are more severe weather patterns (climate change) such as higher temperatures and scarce yet heavy rainfall, emerging due to global warming. As a result we are trying to overcome human inertia and politics to revive a dying continent in a changing climate. So it’s time to join up and help out those front line groups implementing appropriate NRM practices across the country.

Environment

To stabilise and reverse the declining Australian landscape and avoid the continued reduction of our productive agricultural capacity and natural systems we need to revitalise NRM practices in this country. Put simply, the drought we are witnessing with the accompanying expansion of deserts, decline of farm productivity and death of natural systems, is a direct result of our failure to implement appropriate Natural Resource Management practices in the place of those natural systems we have devastated over the past 200 years.

Wellbeing

No one likes to pay for things they have used when they used them thinking they were free. But, when we pay for items we use that come from the environment and we contemplate what happened we taste honour and sense what redemption must feel like. So with this action there is lots of hard work which will benefit the body (ho hum) but interestingly there is honour and redemption at stake which will allow us to look our grandkids in the eye without shame as we hand this big brown land over to them.