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Volunteers help regenerate threatened species in Centennial Parklands
Centennial Parklands volunteers will be getting their hands dirty on National Threatened Species Day on 7 September 2005 to help regenerate the endangered bushland known as the Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS).
There are five ESBS sites within Centennial Parklands including the Bird Sanctuary; the Kensington Ponds remnant; the York Road, Queens Park remnant; the York Road (West) remnant and the lone Xanthorrhoea near Randwick Gates.
ESBS once occupied approximately 5,300 hectares between North Head and Botany Bay in the Sydney Basin Bioregion. Today, only 146 hectares remains in small, isolated remnants.
Volunteers have been working for the past 15 months weeding and removing tree canopies to stimulate regeneration of the native plant species. Recent regenerative work undertaken on the York Road, Queens Park remnant has already demonstrated outstanding results.
National Threatened Species Day is held on the same day each year to encourage the community to help conserve Australia's unique native fauna and flora by restoring healthy numbers of endangered species and ecological communities in the wild.
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Media contact: Julie Hunter Ward 0408 420 801 or 9339 6652
