GREEN Army projects have been gaining traction across the country of late. Round 4 of the program has seen a number of projects around the South Coast and Southern Tablelands rolled out.
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Programs include the:
* Shoalhaven River Erosion Prevention and Mangrove Planting, which is undertaking erosion control work along the St George’s Basin estuarine foreshore;
* Protection of a rare species of plant, Zieria baeuerlenii, in an ecologically important reserve at Bomaderry near Nowra;
* Restoration of the Eurobodalla Coast (Project 1), which should improve the condition of native vegetation in a 110km stretch of Eurobodalla coastal reserves;
* South East Weeds Action Program Protecting Priority Sites (Weereewa Valley, Projects 1 and 2), which focuses on controlling invasive species impacting threatened ecological communities and species in the Weereewa Valley near Lake George;
* Support of the biodiversity of Lake Wollumboola and its catchment (near Culburra Beach and north of Jervis Bay).
The area is significant for its large numbers of shorebirds that migrate to the area throughout the year while also playing host to a number of resident species.
The Green Army has been working in partnership with Shoalhaven City Council and NSW National Parks and Wildlife (NSW NPWS) to protect and conserve the lake;
* Increasing Riparian Fitness: Ecological Health and Connectivity in the Snowy Mountains.
This program aims to rehabilitate threatened species habitat, undertake extensive weed control, support regeneration, and plant native endemic riparian species to filter and cleanse the aquatic system at Tumut Wetlands, McFarlane’s Creek and Pioneer Park; and
* Mulloon Catchment Bell Frog Habitat Recreation Project (Stages 1, 2 and 3).
The Mulloon Creek system was once a landscape of interconnected wetland systems, but now bears eroded gullies.
This project will recreate these wetland systems providing renewed habitat for threatened native flora and fauna.