A crucial native regeneration project improving Western Sydney | Discovery | Gardening Australia
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Clarence explores a project in Western Sydney providing a crucial corridor for native plants and wildlife. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
Clarence is in the Western Sydney Parkland, Australia’s largest urban park, which covers 5,000ha of facilities, attractions and bushland, all set aside for public use alongside some of Sydney’s biggest new developments.
It’s quite leafy now but in the 1950s the area was all bare paddocks.
Environment Manager David Kirkland explains how the open spaces are being planned.
In some areas, where a lot of superphosphates had been used and there were lots of weeds, the topsoil was stripped back to remove the chemicals and weed seeds, then it was reseed with native grasses and wildflowers.
The plan is to recreate the original ecology of the Cumberland Plains, much of which has been mostly lost as Sydney has expanded. They cover 1400ha now and are aiming for 2,000ha.
“The other year alone, I planted up well over 60,000 trees,” David says.
Beyond recreational activities, it's also the green lungs of the area, helping to cool the West in the heat of the summer months and reduce heat island effect.
There is even a patch of dry rainforest in a gully where it is protected from sun and wind. David aims to recreate this habitat in other gullies.
One of the biggest threats David and his team face is invasive species. African olive (Olea europea subsp. cuspidata) is a major problem, producing 20,000 seeds per plant per year, all perfect sized for birds to eat and drop, forming a dense monoculture that is hard to eradicate.
However some areas have been cleared, with a lot of effort, proving it can be done - eventually!
Bringing back cultural burns involving by local community is a goal for the team.
About 1500 ha of bushland has been restored, and biobanking local species for conservation is another key goal.
About 20ha is set aside to focus on diversity and habitat, and already some plant species are reappearing and local fauna returning.
Future plans include creating wildlife corridors under the adjacent freeway to link it to other corridors.
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What a fantastic project, connecting green corridors makes a lot of sense
Incredible video and project
Thank you for watching!
Fantastic. I wish the NSW Government would put a limit on the spread of the city and instead preserve and develop more areas like this. Let's stop the spread ;-)
Great little story Clarence. Thanks for sharing GA.
Totally agree. The problem is we need to develop around existing transport infrastructure (mainly suburban train stations), building medium and higher density apartments. There are so many parts of Sydney near stations where it's little houses with their backyards, and they will have to go. It changes the character of suburbs and that's when you encounter the NIMBY attitude. But it is still a better option than further sprawl and encroachment upon precious habitat.
Wonderful! Please let us know when projects are made for green bridges over highways .
This gives me hope for the future !
I had privilege of working on the Cumberland project back in 2003 and 04, we planted out so much where it comes into Guildford (forgot exact name), weeding around Seven Hills and out in the extreme west area of it (also forgot the name), that's where I gained my appreciation of grasslands
what a great project.
I wish I was able to help out there
Incredible , Herculian efforts….wonderful work and restoration. Your extensive restoration of biodiversity🙌🙌🙌 . I really hope that laws can be created to categorically prevent invasive species like African Olive (and SO many other invasive species and discarded houseplants) being planted in the first place. These take thousands of hours to remove…..if everyone doesn’t understand how critical their removal is….they grow and seed…..birds eat seeds and carry them creating a invasive species monoculture.Starving out wildlife through habitat loss. Thank you Dave and Clarence and GA for showing this!
Sydney and NSW governments need bipartisan legislation to prevent any further development in rare VITALLY IMPORTANT green corridors……our cities need native, biodiverse green corridors …..the lungs of the landscape…..and for cooling….and for our vulnerable wildlife. Thank you Dave and Clarence for this important story.
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What saddens me is that folks don't tie one thing to another. All this talk about saving spaces right on top of talk about "new development" and people don't see how the devastation of the local ecosystem is caused directly by the immigration policies that seemingly allow floods of people from other countries to come on in. All those people need housing, roads, infrastructure, water, land.... of course you're going to have negative impacts, and all for no more reason than "feelz". So what's the solution? Well, the first step is thinking simple. If a pipe busts and starts flooding the house, the first step is to turn off the tap. Everything else is secondary to that. Worrying about the water levels in the dam miles and miles away is ridiculous. That's not to say that you shouldn't worry about the local ecosystem and losing the complexity, but that's gotta always be tied directly to stopping what is causing the problem. Don't talk about the "heat island effect" without working to stop the enlargement of the heat islands. That's just common sense. Otherwise, you're fighting a losing battle because there will always be those demanding more and more additions to the heat island, insisting that it be made bigger because so many people are "in need". They don't want you to think about the fact that there wouldn't be any "need" if they hadn't first made the problem worse by bringing those people into the country to begin with. Australia is an island with a very limited amount of land to begin with. The idea that the country can just keep on accepting new people is ridiculous on its face, and sure to cause nothing but problems in the long-term, but folks seem determined to ignore that part of the equation until it's too late.
Aus is the size of Europe with 5% of the population. Y'all aren't running out of space. You are also desperate for skilled workers and already have one of the strictest immigration processes in the world. The migration you have is what you need, otherwise productivity will plummet.
@@madchris17 That's about as dumb a comment as you could possibly have made.
Did you ever even look at the geography of Australia? Notice how so much of it is practically unlivable due to being mostly scorching hot wasteland with little water? Who is going to live there? Apparently even the "immigrants" want to live in the big cities and coastline.
And the video clearly states that they are running out of space. Or are you suggesting that there should be nothing in Australia other than pavement and housing? No wild lands. No green areas that aren't heavily manicured and curated?
To suggest that productivity would plummet is ridiculous. Talk about a racist statement! What are you really saying about the people who already live there, hmm? Nothing but lazy bums who can't get anything done without the help of immigrants who are just so much better at everything. Kinda makes you wonder why the immigrants would want to be there if the place is so bad. Or was it only the immigrants who arrived before them who made it such a nice place to live? And if those immigrants are so awesome, why haven't they made the countries they came from equally awesome?
@@madchris17exactly! The real issue isn’t a lack of space it’s the crappy building codes that prevent efficient high rises to be built vertically to use less urban sprawl- instead developers are forced to make huge urban areas
@@madchris17that cut into western Sydney bush land
@@madchris17 Common misunderstanding: "Aus is the size of Europe with 5% of the population. Y'all aren't running out of space."
This video is about Western Sydney and the efforts to protect the last few percent of native woodland from development. In Western Sydney the population density is nearly 10 times that of Europe and we absolutely _are_ running out of space! Immigration gets cited as part of the issue because 60% of migrants choose to settle in this mere 0.07% area of Australia.
People who are unwilling to think about these kinds of numbers (and the obvious consequences for infrastructure, greenspace and wildlife) need to stay out of the conversation.
the worst bush land anywhere in the world ...nothing but gum trees. You'd be lying to say it's anywhere as nice as the US, Canada and Japan just to name a few.
They're beautiful and diverse. Sorry mate. 🙃
It’s beautiful just terribly managed hence it looks dead and brown! If it was looked after with burns it would be lush