Revegetating Degraded Bushland (Edmondson Park)

For Landcom, a successful community connects people and place. One of the ways we connected people with their community in FY23 was a planting day in Edmondson Park.

Around 30 community members and kids, including members from the 1st Ingleburn Scouts participated, and there was a free barbecue in return for everyone’s hard work.

The event launched the revegetation of 2.9 hectares, as part of a larger 28.9 hectare lot of bushland to be handed over to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) as a managed conservation area.

The community planted a variety of native species including Cymbopogon refractus (Barbed-wire Grass), Dianella longifolia (Blueberry Lily) and Themeda triandra (Kangaroo Grass) to support increased biodiversity across the site.

Consultants from Eco Logical and a representative from NPWS were also on hand to explain the importance of native vegetation and correct planting techniques. Diligent planting saw all the tube stock firmly in place in less than a day.

The planting area is located on the site of a former waste treatment plant, which Landcom has been remediating since 2019. Our partners at Eco Logical will continue revegetating the remaining land, sowing the equivalent of 90,390 seeds across 22 native species.

Landcom staff were on site the prior day, planting native grasses. Valuing natural capital and biodiversity is an important and emerging theme globally. The emergence of global frameworks such of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is seen as an opportunity to develop an early understanding of the implications (risks and opportunities) of a more integrated approach to factoring nature into all aspects of decision making.

We look forward to more events like this where staff and communities can be involved in enabling net positive ecological outcomes across Landcom’s projects.