Consultancy

Partnerships

Building and maintaining partnerships is at the core of our recovery work. We work closely with Traditional Owners, State and Local governments, local communities and universities to do this. We seek to identify opportunities to partner with Traditional Owners on our projects to support them to continue their work on country and to generate employment for these regional communities.

Biodiverse Revegetation

Boosting floristic and genetic diversity through diverse plantings and genetic rescue can play an important role in building resilience into revegetated communities to enable them to withstand future changes in our climate. In addition to this, assisted migration is also likely to support species to withstand local changes in climate. The TSC considers these and other ecological factors when planning flora recovery.

Revegetation works can bring about both landscape scale and single species benefits. Most revegetation projects do not include threatened flora. This is likely to be due to a number of factors some of which include:

• flora permit applications;

• unsuitable location of translocation sites;

• poor habitat condition of translocation sites;

• challenges sourcing germplasm;

• challenges propagating plants;

• challenges in developing translocation plans; 

• limited threatened species recovery expertise by organisation; and

• genetic, reproductive and ecological issues that limit plant population establishment and recruitment.

However, with the involvement of threatened species ecologists, revegetation projects can address many of these issues and successfully incorporate threatened flora.