This research looked at wildlife and other biodiversity, and provides comprehensive revegetation options for the southern Riverina farming region. (154 pages)
Freudenberger D, Stol J. 2002. Final Report Savernake and Native Dog (SAND) Farmscapes Project: Integrating production and biodiversity. 154pp.
Background
In 1999 the Savernake and Native Dog Swamp (SAND) Group in the southern Riverina received a National Heritage Trust grant for research on conserving wildlife within a sustainable farming system.
The final report of the SAND Farmscapes Project presents locally derived knowledge, practices and guidelines for conserving wildlife diversity and improving land sustainability in the region.
The report includes 16 colour fact sheets designed for land managers to provide comprehensive information on local native birds, plants, reptiles and frogs, truffles and fungi, soils and soil crusts, invertebrates and how best to plan revegetation activities and undertake landscape-scale planning.
The SAND Farmscapes Project was formally completed on 20 February 2001 and continues to contribute to further research and to inform land-use change through out the region through the project's many communication products.
Summary of contents
This report details the achievements and products CSIRO, in collaboration with Greening Australia and the Berrigan Shire, delivered to the Savernake & Native Dog (SAND) Living Farmscapes Project: Remnant Vegetation to Increase Farm Sustainability.
The project established a benchmark of the biodiversity found in remnant woodlands and grasslands within a 212,000 ha area between Berrigan and Corowa, in the Riverina, NSW. This benchmark was based on surveys of plants and animals within remnant sites and analysis of the habitat requirements for a wide range of organisms, particularly woodland birds.
The project provided revegetation guidelines for the area and a framework for monitoring and assessing future landscape change.
The results were widely communicated through field days, display boards, school visits, media presentations, a website and a virtual herbarium featuring each plant species found in the study area.
The report contains the following sections:
- Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Achievements
- Communication activities
- Fact sheets
- Website
- Virtual herbarium
- Bird distribution patterns
- Landscape planning scenarios
- Monitoring
- Database
- Appendix 1: Flora and fauna species list for the study area
Virtual Herbarium
A Virtual Herbarium was created as part of this project to help identify plants in the study area between Berrigan and Corowa, New South Wales.
The aims are to:
- provide all people in the region access to a source of easily identifiable images of plants of their region
- ensure plant identifications can be faster and easier
- improve management of the regions' remnant woodlands
- assist with design, planning and monitoring of future revegetation.
The Virtual Herbarium is available on CD from Ms Jacqui Stol on request.
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