Greater Sydney Landcare Network

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GSLN to plant thousands of trees across Greater Sydney

Greater Sydney Landcare Network is partnering with Landcare NSW and Department of Planning, Industry and Environment to plant thousands of trees to expand the city’s green canopy.

The NSW Government has signed contract with Landcare NSW for 100,000 trees to be planted across Greater Sydney, with a focus on Western Sydney.

The trees with provide relief from urban heat, increase biodiversity and contribute to habitat for wildlife.

The new partnership will contribute to the NSW Government’s target to plant one million trees by 2022.

Landcare NSW CEO Dr Adrian Zammit said the project will help support the development of green spaces across Greater Sydney.

“With the support of the Greater Sydney Landcare Network we will help grow native canopy to cool our city with Landcarers helping landowners and community members participate in tree planting activities.

“Our shared challenge is not only to get the trees in the ground but to monitor and provide education to ensure they survive.”

First aid for Burned Bush

The Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) has developed a number of online information resources to help land managers affected by fire, to assist them in the recovery of their fire-affected areas.

The first of these resources is a Video “Assisting regeneration post fire”. This video is posted on youtube, but can also be found here. The video was produced with the assistance of the Foundation for National Parks and Wildlife.

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The unexpected positive and negative environmental impacts of the Corona crisis

Air pollution improves in countries like India; photo courtesy Seven News

Who could have imagined the health impacts, let alone the economic ones, of a virtual lock down of modern day society? As if the catastrophe of the 2019/2020 bushfires were not hard enough for parts of Australia to deal with, now we are dealing with the aftermath of 74 deaths (current as of 22/4/20) and a hit to the economic foundations of this country not equalled for generations.

As Queen Elizabeth II described, we are ‘resilient’ people, and I am sure we will bounce back from this, but how long will it take? For us, who were (touch wood) affected a lot less than the rest of the world, it may not be such a long upward climb, but how resilient is America, or Italy? It surely will take some time to get back to what all of our normal looks like.

So what have been the positives that have come out of the Corona crisis? Dolphins swimming up canals in Venice, nope that proved to be a fake, but what an idea! Some of the real benefits that have come out of the Pandemic, howeverdo include improvements in air quality.

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