A rainforest tree planting program by Dune Care volunteers will kick off a community field day at The Ruins Campground later this week.
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The tree planting is just one of the many events being held at the day-long field day, which is part of the Saving Our Species (SOS) program which began earlier this year.
SOS is being funded by the NSW Environmental Trust and delivered by Taree Indigenous Development and Employment (TIDE) in partnership with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and MidCoast Council.
A seven year project, SOS was designed to protect the Littoral Rainforest Threatened Ecological Community (TEC) across land tenures at Tiona Park and Booti Booti National Park at Pacific Palms.
During the morning, which begins at 8am this Friday, July 26, there will be site inspections and other activities.
The control of transformer weeds and weeds of national significance that change the floristics and structure of the Littoral Rainforest will be the focus of the project.
- Fiona Miller
TIDE CEO, John Clark said he was please his group's rangers - who had been employed under the Federal government's Working on Country Program, would deliver much of the on-ground management activities, including weed treatment works.
"The SOS program provides important Aboriginal employment and opportunities to work on country," Mr Clark said.
NPWS ranger Fiona Miller said project partners would co-operatively deliver actions that reduce threats to the TEC.
"The control of transformer weeds and weeds of national significance that change the floristics and structure of the Littoral Rainforest will be the focus of the project," Ms Miller said.
"Volunteer Dune Care groups will support the project by undertaking annual activities in the area."
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