Associated Actions

Environment

To stabilise and reverse the declining Australian landscape and avoid the continued reduction of our productive agricultural capacity and natural systems we need to revitalise NRM practices in this country. Put simply, the drought we are witnessing with the accompanying expansion of deserts, decline of farm productivity and death of natural systems, is a direct result of our failure to implement appropriate Natural Resource Management practices in the place of those natural systems we have devastated over the past 200 years.

Wellbeing

No one likes to pay for things they have used when they used them thinking they were free. It makes us feel angry, stupid, ripped off and cheated. But, when we cough up the fee and have time to calm ourselves and contemplate what happened we taste honour and sense what redemption must feel like. So with this action there is lots of hard work which will benefit the body (ho hum) but interestingly there is honour and redemption at stake which will allow us to look our grandkids in the eye without shame as we hand this big brown land over to them.

Join a Revegetation Group

The Australian landscape has suffered massively from the arrival of European farming and our clear-fell domination of the native environment. This decline continues, even though we now know it leads to salinity, soil acidification and erosion. It's time to heal what previous generations have harmed. A membership and involvement in not-for-profit community revegetation group will fund and support the planting of hundreds of native seedlings per year.

How to do it now!

Randwick, Waverley and Woollahra Councils all run volunteer bushcare and regeneration programs, removing weeds, planting indigenous plants and installing soil erosion controls.

No previous experience is required to join the bushcare volunteers as all training is provided by the supervisor. Just come along with sturdy shoes, a long-sleeved shirt, trousers and a hat.

To find out more about your local Bushcare Volunteers visit:

Find a not-for-profit group in your community.

You’ll find additional information at the following website:

Why this action is important?

Natural Resource Management (NRM) is the critical battleground for Australia over the next 50+ years. We face a declining natural environment as a result of approximately 200 years of (well-intentioned) mismanagement of our landscape. As a result we have dying river systems, salinity, soil acidification, invasive species and soil loss. In addition, and making this harder, are more severe weather patterns (climate change) such as higher temperatures and scarce yet heavy rainfall, emerging due to global warming. As a result we are trying to overcome human inertia and politics to revive a dying continent in a changing climate. So it's time to join up and help out those front line groups implementing appropriate NRM practices across the country.