The staff at ANZ Port Macquarie recently worked helping Port Macquarie Landcare in the Wrights Creek catchment area by mulching and edge planting a remnant Subtropical Rainforest, which will protect this remnant from drying out and preserving it for future generations.
ANZ is part of the wider community and not just about banking. It is also about what else can be done as a bank in our community, to help make a difference. The staff at ANZ Port Macquarie participated in this activity to help keep Port Macquarie a beautiful place to live.
Port Macquarie Landcare Group has secured funding of $250,000 to commence a six-year Project to rehabilitate Wrights and Yarranabee Creeks in Port Macquarie. This funding, together with over $800,000 in labour from Council’s two Bush Regeneration Teams and Landcare volunteers, will result in well over $1,000,000 of additional investment in the environment in Port Macquarie over the coming years.
The project covers significant remnant forest corridors that survive on Yarranabee and Wrights Creeks. They include three state and/or nationally threatened ecological communities that provide habitat to at least 11 threatened animals and two threatened plants. This biodiversity is currently threatened by weeds that also increase fire risk to these sensitive riparian areas. The project will control weeds from the top of each catchment, following Asset Protection Zone establishment by the Council.
Landcarers will lead community groups and neighbours by coordinating contractors to regenerate these reserves and their precious cargo. Revegetation with fire-retardant rainforest species will seal edges, extend corridors and improve links. Connectivity will be improved, biodiversity and threatened species will benefit and ecosystem services will be enhanced. Macquarie Nature Reserve and Kooloonbung Creek will benefit from the reduction in weeds upstream from their valuable ecological systems. These works cover 56ha, bringing the total area worked on to 80ha.
Corporate groups and individuals interested in participating in Landcare projects or in becoming a member of Port Macquarie Landcare are encouraged to contact Estelle Gough on 0432 141 605 for further information. You, too, can “make a difference”; and all age groups are always welcome.
