Revegetation
It is Eco-lands belief that revegetation of erosion prone land is best done by using native plants
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| 2008 Paroa Bay Revegetation and paddocks | 2008 Paroa Bay storm water retention pond |
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| 2008 Paroa Bay Reveg & exotic |
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Revegetation
strategy:
To assist and enhance the efforts of nature with
education, management and revegetation implementation!!
Our objective is to encourage the planting and harvest of privately owned native forest resources whilst retaining and maintaining their ecological character, intrinsic values and economic possibilities.
- We wish to achieve this through public support, lobbying regulatory bodies and native forest management plan certifications.
- We wish to encourage revegetation of erosion prone land within your neighbourhood thus reducing soil erosion and improving water quality in our creeks rivers and estuaries.
- We offer on site inspections & planting plans
- We offer pest & weed control advice and management.
- We promote the use of education, hands on training and nursery planting support
- We promote the reserving of remnant forest on both public and privately owned land.
Brief:
Eco-land planted 67,000 native plants and trees in the
year 2000. These plants were planted onto steep erosion
prone hillsides having marginal agriculture value. The
natives were planted and managed in accordance with the
properties organic management status.
Revegetation when done properly can provide far more
than bird food and amenity appeal. Plantings can also be
designed to include honey production, herbal medicine and
teas, high value craft wood or fodder lots for livestock
mineral supplements.
Regional lizards, snails, frogs and insects can also be
encouraged with pest control and habitat creation.
Breeding populations of these species can be maintained
in a relatively small area. Many of these regional
species are in population decline due to loss of habitat
and predation.
Remnant forest deserves protection and restoration. These forest hold regional genetic seed resources of which have taken millions of years to develop and provide habitat to many different localised strains of native creatures. Restoration of these areas requires careful planning as new native and exotic ecosystems have evolved. Careful management will insure the natural balance of native specie populations are not adversely affected or polluted with weed and pest control or by replanting,.
Indigenous forestry combined with perpetual harvest
management insures high quality resources for future
generations.
It is Eco-lands belief that privately owned reverting
farmland and revegetated native forest resources should
be managed to insure future wood resources of high
quality. European communities have been managing their
native forest resources for centuries as a result they
still have native timbers available for woodcraft and
building.
It is our fear that regulatory controls over private land
will only cause a poor quality resource to evolve of
which in the future will be harvested and plundered again
to fulfil one generation's greed.
Why not put in place a community system that rewards generational resource management and use!