Byron Creek Headwater Restoration

WetlandCare Australia has been working with farmers in the Byron Bay hinterland to undertake the restoration works of riparian vegetation along Byron Creek since 2012.

Through funding from Next Generation Trust, WetlandCare Australia has assisted a farmer to undertake weed control and revegetation along creek lines on a property in the headwaters of Byron Creek. These works will improve biodiversity, improve water quality, and reduce soil loss from the property and also re-establish an area of Lowland Rainforest which is an Endangered Ecological Community (EEC).

Over 1 kilometre of Byron Creek has now been successfully revegetated with over 3,000 native riparian species being planted and an area of 1 hectare of native vegetation being re-established. These works have linked with previous restoration works at the property and there is now over 8.5 hectares of continuous native vegetation along the creek lines at the property. Follow up weed control and maintenance at the site has now commenced, with the landholder engaging a bush regenerator to undertake these works to suppress any reoccurrence of weed species throughout the revegetated areas. 

PHOTO: Staff and Volunteers get to work (WetlandCare Australia 2014)