Our community native plant nursery and community food garden
"The Habitat" is open every
Wednesday and Saturday 10 am to 4 pm. If you would like to buy some native plants or food plants for your garden
or to discuss habitat, native plants, food plants or weeds do come and visit.
The Australian habitat plant photos page now also includes many
plant information pages (provided by Pam Ward. Simply click on the photo to see the information page or a larger image.
Become a friend on our new Facebook page, see link in side bar.
The Habitat Network is a network of people conserving, reconnecting and creating habitat for the benefit of our native
plants and animals enriching our environment and our community.
Our aim is to reconnect isolated populations of small native birds, pollinators and other native animals
which through loss of habitat are rapidly disappearing from our urban and rural environments.
By including small pockets of native plants in our gardens, we can provide wildlife habitat. Connect to
your neighbours and encourage them to include a habitat area in their garden and you have a start of a corridor.
Why not get your whole street involved?
We can also work with our local Councils, bushcare and landcare groups to conserve our bushland and habitat areas,
extend our bushland edges (specifically for habitat) and plant habitat havens (protective bushy islands)
to enhance or create native corridors.
If you are in a bushcare or landcare group or a street habitat / community garden group please think about how to connect your
patch to the nearest bushland area to extend or create a habitat corridor. Let us know what you are doing and we will
help to promote your project. Wouldn't it be fantastic if we as volunteers could help
connect habitat all the way across our city, town or region. If climate change is a reality and as our population increases
these connections will be vital.
The Habitat Network is a Restoring Natural Capital project being run by International Environmental
Weed Foundation (IEWF). IEWF is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers. Visit our websites:
Innovation Award
In May 2011 the Habitat Network won both the Innovation Award (joint 1st) and a Highly Commended for
Urban Landcare. These were awarded by Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority as part of their 2011 Regional Awards.
Well done to all of our Habitat Network members and to all who help with this project. Also well done to all other winning groups.
Please see our "Activity photos" page above and read about other winners on the
SMCMA website and in the SMCMA
2011 Winter Mambara Issue 31 (pdf 1.15MB).
Also see the video about the Habitat Network produced by
SMCMA
and look for the other winner's there too.
Click here
to:
* find out why we want to re-create lost habitat,
* learn how we can create habitat,
* see our habitat plant photos to discover what you may like to grow, and
* read our Habitat Network member's stories and see their photos.
We have a number of
Resources including diagrams, information sheets and brochures
which we encourage you to download and use. There are also simple to use web based resources which are there for you to use.
We have some wonderful people helping us survey, monitor and
build the foundations for expanding this project. It is invaluable that we collect information about what
is happening. You can help us collect this information by recording what you see in your garden or in nearby bushland.
We would also like to hear about street trees and plantings that you see working as habitat corridors.
Please follow this link to read about the
Science and to find our "Animals in my Backyard Survey" form and how you can help us.
The Habitat is being run by the community in partnership with City of Ryde
at Santa Rosa Park, 251 Quarry Road, Ryde. Volunteers are always welcome - visit us between 10am and 4pm any Wednesday or Saturday.
Check out The Habitat - and find links to other
community nurseries, community gardens and related sites
HERE.
If you would like to be involved please email info@iewf.org
or simply drop in for a visit.
Graffiti Action Day 2011 planted 1.5 km of plants as graffiti barriers. See some photos and reports of the activities on
the Keep Australia Beautiful website.Also a couple of photos on our Activity Photo page above.
Check out Marianne Cannon's "Real World Gardener" program on local Sydney radio 2RRR 88.5fm Wed 5pm and Sat 12 noon. You
can also listen to interviews with Kurtis Lindsay, a talented naturalist, talking on different native birds and animals with Marianne
by visiting
http://realworldgardener.blogspot.com
BirdLife Australia and Birds in Backyards want to locate all the breeding pairs of Powerful Owls in the greater Sydney region,
from Newcastle in the north to Kiama in the south and west to the Blue Mountains. If you sight any Powerful Owls
please either contact us at info@iewf.org or visit the Birds in Backyards website for more information:
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/surveys/Powerful-Owl-Project top
