Photo Credit – Jayden Gunn

Ongoing funding means we are able to continue supporting the critically important work everyone has been doing to put scattered paddock trees back into our farms. Planting trees, for the future, to help the Superb Parrot plus many other species in the long term. Some of the key threats to the Superb Parrot are the loss of living and dead hollow bearing trees and poor regeneration of nesting trees. There is a fantastic fact sheet, put together by Local Land Services, about the importance of scattered paddock trees in our landscape and for our farms here

We received a small amount of funding to enable planting of the Superb’s preferred understory plant species and will be providing updates on how that’s tracking during 2024.

Most of you would now be very familiar with the paddock tree work and the mesh we have been using to construct the guards. The cost of this mesh and star pickets has increased significantly over the last few years and as such, we are delighted to be in a position where we have been able to contrinute 70% towards the cost of the mesh, star pickets and trees for this project. We have also provided up to 70% of the cost of understory tubestock and guards.

We really appreciate the interest we received in this project and encourage any interested parties to stay in touch for future funding rounds and activities. You can find out more about the Superb Parrot Project and scattered paddock trees on our website here and can access a Mid Lachlan Landcare region map here to see if your property falls under our region. Mid Lachlan is the blue section.

In the meantime, for those of you wanting to learn more, we have a great video about how to construct the guards here

Please contact us midlachlanlandcare@gmail.com if you would like to be added to our newsletter and informed of future projects like this.