Community Natural Resource Management:
Rabbit control & volunteer involvement
This project seeks to complement on-going rabbit control and restoration works on Calperum Station. It will rip rabbit warrens in steep and rocky areas, which are currently inaccessible to management by ALT, enabling more efficient on-going control of rabbits. It will engage a wide range of volunteers (e.g Rotary clubs, students and the local community) in re-vegetating the disturbed sites to prevent erosion and restore the native vegetation, and in monitoring the sites to determine the success of the management.
Native Vegetation Council Significant Environmental Benefit:
Ramsar Restoration
The Riverland Ramsar site on Calperum Station covers approximately 8,100 ha. It is internationally significant, supporting 28 fauna and 6 plant species of National or State conservation significance. The project involves the restoration of terrestrial vegetation, by reducing threats such as increased grazing pressure and weed invasion, and strategic supplementary planting to restore diverse and sustainable communities. It addresses areas that have undergone more permanent changes due to rising saline ground water, by producing functional salt-tolerant habitats, and seeks to ameliorate severe soil degradation by effective restoration for erosion scalds. Native Vegetation Council: Significant Environmental Benefit:
Native Vegetation Council Significant Environmental Benefit:
Woodland Restoration
The Woodland Restoration project seeks to restore the condition of 2951 ha of semi-arid woodland on Calpeum Station, through selective planting and natural regeneration. Currently these woodlands are degraded through the loss of tree overstorey (Callitris graciilis, Myoprum platycarpum) due to timber cutting, and the loss of tree recruit and decline in the diversity and cover of the understorey due to grazing. This has resulted in the loss of habitat for fauna-including the State listed Major Mitchell's Cockatoo-and the disruption of landscape connectivity between the Murray River floodplain and the mallee.
State Natural Resource Management:
Volunteer NRM capacity building
The objective of this project is to build capacity in volunteers to implement restoration projects through targeted training and support for on-ground activities. Volunteers will develop skills in re-vegetation and monitoring activities to carry-out restoration of the landscape and support future projects - in the short term we expect these volunteers to plant, maintain and monitor at least 3000 native plants.