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Rekindle Foundation pledge multi-year support to the Big Scrub
May 23, 2023May 27, 2023
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Rekindle Foundation pledge multi-year support to the Big Scrub

Over the past 30 years, Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy has cared for around 50 Big Scrub  rainforest remnants and facilitated the restoration of new forest on over 600 hectares of land. We’ve done so with the help of government funding, the Big Scrub Foundation, other philanthropic organisations and generous individual donors. It’s with great pleasure...

Koalas in the Big Scrub: A Conservation Dilemma
May 11, 2023June 7, 2023
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Koalas in the Big Scrub: A Conservation Dilemma

The Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy, landowners, land managers and regenerators have been working hard for 40 years to protect, regenerate and replant the vegetation that once flourished on the red ferrosol soils of the Big Scrub. That vegetation type is lowland subtropical rainforest – a complex and diverse ecosystem that evolved 40 million years ago...

Alex Floyd Tribute: “Unsurpassed knowledge” of rainforest botany
March 10, 2023March 10, 2023
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Alex Floyd Tribute: “Unsurpassed knowledge” of rainforest botany

One of the pioneers of rainforest botany, and a formative personality of conservation in our region, Alex Floyd, passed away earlier this year. In an insightful and touching obituary published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Dr Rob Kooyman shared many of the amazing facts from Floyd’s life and career. Kooyman describes Floyd’s knowledge of rainforest botany...

Science Saving Rainforests Update: DNA Sequencing Underway
March 8, 2023March 21, 2023
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Science Saving Rainforests Update: DNA Sequencing Underway

After suffering bushfire, flood and covid-related delays, our flagship program Science Saving Rainforests has sprung into action and is quickly making up for lost time. Most excitingly, the DNA sequencing phase of the program has begun, with a number of species currently being analysed by Diversity Arrays Technology in Canberra. This stage of the project...

Propagation, Regeneration, Celebration: New festival to celebrate regeneration of the region
December 22, 2022December 23, 2022
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Propagation, Regeneration, Celebration: New festival to celebrate regeneration of the region

By Ray Moynihan Some books change your life.  Australian Rainforest Seeds and its guidance on propagation changed mine. This time 12 months ago I was an overpaid academic on the path to full professor. A year later I’m organising seed propagation workshops in schools and a new festival called Regeneration – to be held in...

Annual President’s Report 2022: Record year for Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy
December 22, 2022December 22, 2022
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Annual President’s Report 2022: Record year for Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy

Tony Parkes’ 2021-22 Annual President’s Report to the members of Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy After 29 years as Big Scrub Landcare, members agreed that we should change our name to Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy (BSRC). The new name better reflects the much broader scope of our activities, particularly Science Saving Rainforests, our flagship Program. I...