While many people make donations to charitable causes with the money they have left after other expenses, others are deciding to include in their budget a monthly contribution to Rainforest Rescue.  By doing so these supporters are making saving rainforests part of their everyday lives.

When people give affordable amounts on a monthly basis it can make the experience of saving rainforests more sustainable. It may be $1 a day ($30 a month) or more, or less, whatever people feel the can afford. Regular monthly giving is an automated process and therefore the administration costs are minimised. This ensures the maximum amount of the donation reaches the rainforests.

Angela Standley has been giving regularly to Rainforest Rescue since 2000 and says “It feels good to be reminded every month that more rainforest is being protected while I work away in the big smoke.  It sends me to the rainforests and I instantly recall the beautiful fan palms, large fruits, insect sounds and squawking birds”.

Saving a few square meters of the Daintree rainforest each month contributes to Rainforest Rescue’s plans to buy back and protect the Daintree forever. Others say knowing they’ve saved Orangutan habitat each month is in line with their own commitments to make the world a better place.

Donations are automatically deducted from your bank account or credit card once a month. The donations are tax-deductible so at the end of the financial year you can look forward to receiving a receipt that you can submit with your tax return.

To make a commitment to a monthly donation to Rainforest Rescue visit http://www.rainforestrescue.org.au/howtohelp/individuals.html

Madeira Vine is a particularly troublesome environmental weed to deal with. Despite the best efforts of bush regenerators it will always regrow. There are sites on the NSW north coast where Madeira has been actively controlled for around 20 years and it still manages to recur. Fortunately it does not set viable seed in this country. However rapid growth rates, combined with its ability to produce copious quantities of aerial tubers each growing season, make eradication an unrealistic goal. Control measures therefore aim to limit the spread of Madeira Vine while reducing the level of infestation.

Most Madeira Vine infestations consist of large vines growing up into canopy trees with clusters of aerial tubers attached as well as a dense ground layer of tuberlings and unsprouted tubers. There are also usually numerous tubers hanging up in canopy debris, growing within epiphytes as well as broken sections of vine growing and producing tubers even without contact with the ground.

The standard approach is to scrape long sections of the climbing vines with a knife, from ground level up to head height, and promptly paint with neat glyphosate. Scraping of Madeira must be done gently to avoid severing the vine, and for thicker vines should be deep enough to expose the white fibrous core of the vine. The vines are either carefully scraped and painted between the attached tubers or the tubers are removed from the lower section of the vine before scraping and placed in a bag. Bagging prevents aerial tubers from being knocked to the ground where they will eventually start growing. A proportion of the aerial tubers above the scraping will then rot with the rest of the vine and the remainder will fall to the ground. Where dense tuberlings occur around the climbing vines it may be beneficial to spray these before treating larger vines to avoid damaging them by trampling. Otherwise time must be allowed for them to recover to a sprayable condition. Standard spray application is glyphosate at the rate of 1:50 with water ( ie 200mL glyphosate per 10l water) plus LI 700 5mL/L of mix.

The key ingredient for the management of Madeira Vine at any site is regular follow-up weeding. It is easy to treat a large area of canopy vines initially, whereas it is very difficult to maintain a treated area over time. Areas of dense ground layer infestation typically require as many as 6 follow-up treatments per year to prevent the vines from climbing. It is essential that there is a consistent reduction of tuber input on a site for long-term success. Subsequent weeding of an area must occur regularly enough to prevent underground tubers from re-sprouting vines that climb up to produce new aerial tubers. Removal of available climbing ladders such as cut stems of Lantana is beneficial.

Madeira vines grow fastest (up to 1m/week) in high sunlight conditions coupled with good ground moisture (ie. most creek sides, rainforest understoreys). Given that primary treatment of canopy vines is usually accompanied by control of other weeds such as Lantana, Climbing Asparagus and Privet, sunlight levels in the treated area increase and so does the growth rate of Madeira. A decision to use either hand weeding or spray application of herbicide must be made on each site visit. The best choice will depend on the scale of infestation and the overall stage of the particular project. Spraying is usually the best option during the early stages of Madeira control when dense infestations are experienced while hand weeding is preferable when regrowth tubers are few and far between.

Good preparation of an area prior to spraying is important. The basic premise of bush regeneration is that a treated area becomes healthier and more diverse over time. In this way the bush thickens up, becomes shadier and slows the growth of Madeira. This means that excessive damage to native vegetation due to spray drift is unacceptable. Wind down vines growing into small trees and shrubs and place in a sprayable position. These must be left intact so that herbicide uptake through the foliage impacts underground tubers. Also, hand weeding should be undertaken around precious seedlings and invaluable groundcovers such as ferns and native herbs to ensure that these are not excessively damaged following spraying.

Tubers collected by hand should be placed in an onsite compost under black plastic or put in the bin. Hand weeding is very effective at removing large tubers that would otherwise require uncountable spray treatments over a long period of time.

Regrowth always occurs whether hand weeding or spraying is used due to the presence of un-sprouted tubers which are unaffected by either method. Deeply buried tubers are common in riparian environments and may be best treated by gouging and copious application with herbicide. Only experience and site familiarity can tell the practitioner what are replaceable losses when spraying. Spray-free zones must be maintained around rare and endangered plant species to ensure that these are not adversely impacted by well-meaning weed control.

The uptake of herbicide by Madeira tuberlings via spray application and subsequent damage to tubers is dependent on factors such as leaf surface area/tuber ratio, general health (weather conditions) and choice of herbicide. Spraying of tuberlings usually only results in partial decay of the tuber and in time regrowth of the same tuber. Small tubers may completely rot with only one spray whereas large tubers will require repeated spraying each time the tuber regrows. Some bush regenerators prefer to use Grazon or Starane as opposed to Glyphosate for additional impact on Madeira tubers. However these chemicals are not always suitable for use within high conservation value vegetation due to residual impacts. Brush Killer (Metsulfuron Methyl) may be added to Glyphosate spray mixes as a less toxic alternative. Note that herbicides used must be registered for use under permit for particular weeds. Consideration must be given to the fact that no matter the selection of herbicide, regrowth of Madeira Vine will always occur and therefore re-application of herbicide will be required. This means that chemical input to the same area will occur time and again.

There is no magic cure for the control of Madeira Vine. Effective treatment requires a long-term, well-planned strategy that utilises a range of techniques. The best approach involves consistency, patience and determination. As a rule of thumb – if you can’t commit to the follow up then don’t do the initial weeding.

Written by Darren Bailey

Boyd’s Forest Dragons Hypsilurus boydii are endemic to the rainforests of Australia’s Wet Tropics. They can reach a total length of 54 cm and may live to thirty years. They prefer the vertical surface of a tree-trunk, particularly one with a slightly larger diameter than their own girth, to hide behind upon the approach of any potential threat. Occupying a territorial distribution of one dragon per 500 square metres of forest, they protect themselves from Amethystine Pythons in another peculiar way.

They distinguish themselves from all other rainforest reptiles by maintaining a consistently colder body temperature. This is achieved by avoiding exposure to direct sunlight in an unusually precautionary thermo-regulation. By ensuring that their body temperature is always precisely the same as the temperature of the vegetation upon which they sleep, they remain thermally inconspicuous to the Amethystine Python with its formidable thermo-detection capabilities.

They do, however, leave a scent trail, but this unavoidable legacy is offset by false trails and the selection of a sleeping position that replicates that of the Spectacled Monarch as described previously. Juvenile dragons sleep at the very ends of flimsy branches on under-storey plants so that their instinctive sensitivity to vibration wakes them from sleep upon the approach of a snake. Adults rely more upon the sensitivity of the tip of their tail, which is thermally indistinguishable from the tree, but some lose portions of tail which do not regenerate with this species.

Two Queensland World Heritage icons, the Daintree and Fraser Island are generating $675 million annually for the economy according to a study released today by the Australian Tropical Research Foundation (AUSTROP).

The study carried out by Cairns based corporate advisers, Kleinhardt FGI Pty Ltd and funded with a generous grant by the San Francisco based Goldman Environmental Foundation shows that the area north of the Daintree River ferry generates $400 million annually while Fraser Island is worth $275 million.

The study is in response to increasing public concern that the expenditure of governments in managing natural areas may not be commensurate with their value to the economy and to obtain an independent assessment of what the real value to the economy is.

Cape Tribulation-based Foundation’s Director of AUSTROP, Dr. Hugh Spencer, said that he hoped that the findings encourage the State and Federal Governments to improve their commitment to the conservation of the country’s last remaining iconic wilderness areas.

He said that currently the combined spending by both the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments amounted to only about $5 million for each site annually while the Commonwealth Government is spending about $12 million on another World Heritage icon, Kakadu National Park, which has about 200,000 visitors each year.

Honorary Project Officer for the Fraser Island Defenders Organization, John Sinclair, said that it was significant that the conclusion of the Kleinhardt study coincides with the release of another study commissioned by the Queensland Government which showed that many areas on Fraser Island are being significantly overused.

He called for the amount of government funding devoted to the management of iconic World Heritage sites to be at least the equivalent to the amount spent by governments in supporting extractive industries.

He said that Fraser Island needed about $12 to $13 million annually to ensure that the visitation to the island can be managed sustainably and that the Daintree should have a commitment in the vicinity of $20 million.

“This would be putting them close to the visitor expenditure ratio of Kakadu National Park which receives for only about a quarter of the volume of visitation which the Daintree study area and Fraser Island receive between them. Despite this, the combined government of these two sites falls well short of the $12 million the Commonwealth Government spend in Kakadu, annually,” Mr Sinclair said.

Mr. Sinclair will present the study to the Environment Minister Dean Wells by this afternoon (Tuesday) in Brisbane.

For further information: The Executive Summary of the report is attached. The full study report will be available on the internet at www.fido.org.au from Tuesday, 19 March.

Regarding its application to the Daintree values, contact Director of the Cape Tribulation Research Station, operated by the Australian Tropical Research Foundation Dr Hugh Spencer, phone (07) 4098 0063

What is Environmentally Sound Paper?
Environmentally Sound Paper (ESP) is paper that has a minimal impact on the environment. This is determined from the source of the raw material, and how it is manufactured. The most commonly acknowledged type of ESP is paper that has been recycled from used paper. Other types of paper such as paper made from alternative fibres other than wood and paper reclaimed from landfill etc. can be said to be environmentally sound.

On the other side of the ledger is paper that has a destructive impact on the environment. Paper manufactured from wood pulp sourced from Old Growth and Rainforests are acknowledged as being the least environmentally sound and should be avoided as all costs. Also paper produced by methods that introduce toxic chemicals into the environment such as chlorine bleaching should be avoided.

*See the bottom of this page for a checklist of the most environmentally sound paper selections.

Plantations
Paper sourced from plantations* that have replaced native forest and/or are chemical intensive are NOT environmentally sound. Some paper companies are claiming their products produced from plantation forestry are environmentally sound. Yet, the forestry practices associated with some plantations, such as clearing of native forest to create the plantations and intensive use of toxic chemicals to maintain them, are amongst the most environmentally destructive practices around. Toxic residues from the intensive use of herbicides and insecticides on plantations are finding their way into our drinking water supplies and fisheries leaving a lasting toxic legacy for the future.

*For more information on Australian Plantation Forestry go to:
Australian Paper: www.australianpaper.forests.org.au
Hancock Forests: www.hancock.forests.org.au

Where is your paper coming from?
The majority of paper that the average Australian encounters day to day (excluding Newsprint) i.e. magazines, TV guides, newsletters, junk mail etc. comes from either pulp produced from the destruction of Australian Forests or South East Asian Rainforests. Those glossy advertising catalogues that arrive in your letterbox are most likely printed on cheap art paper manufactured in SE Asia from rainforest sourced pulp. Your photocopy paper, household bills etc. are more than likely produced with pulp sourced from the Old Growth Forests of East Gippsland, the Central Highlands of Victoria or Tasmania.

There are alternatives to using these environmentally destructive papers. Many Recycled, Alternative Fibre and Reclaimed Papers are available and below is a basic guide for choosing the most environmentally sound.

Recycled Papers:
Recycled papers are recycled to different degrees. The percentage and type of recycled fibre is what to look for. Always choose the paper with the greatest percentage of post consumer waste fibre. Post consumer waste refers to paper that has been used before, collected and recycled, it differs from pre consumer waste which is unused offcuts from the paper making process that are repulped.

The best of the uncoated standard recycled papers for general printing and photocopying available are-:

Cyclus: A Danish made 100% post consumer recycled paper.
Resa Offset Recycled: Made by the same company that makes Cyclus. 100% post
consumer waste.
Evolve: A British made 100% recycled paper with a high post consumer content.
Natutilus: An Austrian made 100% recycled paper with 50% post consumer content.
Evirocare: An Austrian made 100% recycled paper with 65% post consumer content.
Prologue: An Australian made 100% recycled paper.
Options Recycled PC 100: A high quality American 100% post consumer recycled paper.
Plantation: An Australian stock made from 70% waste paper and 30% cotton fibre.

Specialty Recycled Papers:
A large range of high quality, attractive recycled specialty papers exist in a range of weights and colours for all printing applications. Some of the best of these are-:

Recycle 100:
An Australian made 100% recycled stock available in text and cover weight.

Outback:
An earthy Australian 100% recycled stock in text and cover weight.

Botany:
An Australian made 100% unbleached post consumer paper, tan in colour, not recommended for photocopy machines.

Speckletone:
U.S. made textured recycled stock in text and cover weight.

Origin:
An Australian made specialty stock containing recycled fibre and cotton waste.

Evergreen: U.S. produced text and cover stock made from 100% post consumer waste and bamboo fibre.

Conservation Recycled:
A 100% recycled text and cover stock with 20% post consumer content made in Scotland.

Recycled Coated Art Paper:
Coated art paper is often required for high quality and full colour printing,
the best available are -:

Cyclus Matt Art:
This is 100% recycled white artpaper of high quality.

Re-Art:
A 100% recycled high quality artpaper available in matt and gloss.

Monza:
Artpaper with a 15% post consumer, 35% pre consumer and 50% recycled component.

Lotus Recycled Artboard:
100% post consumer recycled artboard made in Japan.

Alternative Fibre Papers:
Alternative fibre or ‘tree free’ papers are produced from the fibre of many different materials ranging from used denim and cotton to banana stalks, bamboo, hemp, flax, sugar cane waste and coffee bean chaff. Unfortunately there are only a few of these papers available in Australia.

The potential of these waste products and fast growing annuals to produce high quality paper and reduce the demand of forests for pulp is enormous.

Available alternative fibre papers are -:

Harvest:
70% sugarcane waste art paper available in matt and gloss.

Canefields:
75% sugarcane waste general photocopy paper.

Reclaimed Paper:
There is much waste in the paper industry, not quite right, slightly damaged paper rolls, and discontinued stock are often dumped in landfill. There are a few paper traders who salvage these damaged or unwanted paper rolls from dumping and sheet them for sale. The paper from this salvage is environmentally sound even though the salvaged paper may not be recycled or alternative fibre paper.

Accreditation and Certification:
In recent years the use of eco labels, certifications and accreditations have been adopted to evaluate the environmental standards of individual paper mills and the forestry practices from which they source their pulp by an accredited 3rd party.

Some of the more credible of these are-:
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC): An international, non governmental organisation, which promotes responsible and sustainable forest management. The FSC system of forest certification and product labelling allow papermakers to identify wood pulp that comes from well-managed forests. The chain of custody tracks wood pulp from the forest to the final user. It is an eco label endorsed by WWF, Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.

EMS (Environmental Management System):
An internal system for handling environmental issues within a company. It sets requirements for how activities impacting the environment are accounted for and documented.

ISO 14001 International Environmental Management Standard:
It specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system. It applies to those environmental aspects over which the organisation has control and can be expected to have influence.

EMAS (European Eco-Management and Audit System):
Founded by the European Union and considered to be the superior environmental standard available. The core scheme requires that there is full transparent public reporting, monitoring and auditing. The accreditation will only be maintained by an organisation that proves ongoing environmental improvements.

White Paper and Bleaching:
To produce white paper the wood coloured pulp requires a process of bleaching. In the past this was done through a process of chlorine bleaching. This method produced highly toxic dioxin as a residue. Today many mills are converting to more environmentally preferable bleaching methods.

Avoid using Chlorine bleached papers.
Environmentally preferred bleaching methods are as follows -:

Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF):
substitutes more benign chemicals such as chlorine dioxide for elemental chlorine gas. Dioxins and other persistent carcinogens remain in ECF effluent but at significantly lower levels.

Process Chlorine Free (PCF):
substitutes benign agents such as ozone, hydrogen peroxide and oxygen, although the pulp may contain recycled or recovered materials that were originally bleached with chlorine.

Total Chlorine Free (TCF):
substitutes benign agents such as ozone, hydrogen peroxide and oxygen.

Paper Selection:
For the most environmentally sound paper choose paper that:

• Has the highest percentage of post consumer recycled content.
• Comes from sustainably managed plantation timber. i.e. has Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification.
• Is not chlorine bleached – has Process Chlorine Free (PCF), Total Chlorine Free (TCF) or Elemental Chlorine Free (ECF) certification.
• Comes from a mill that has EMS certification – look for ISO 14001 or EMAS
• Is produced in Australia – supports local industry and reduces environmental impacts of transportation.
• Has been salvaged for reuse from landfill.

An African woman, Dr. Wangari Maathai, is this year’s Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate. Her story…

Thirty years ago, in the country of Kenya, 90% of the forest had been chopped down. Without trees to hold the topsoil in place, the land became like a desert.

When the women and girls would go in search of firewood in order to prepare the meals,
they would have to spend hours and hours
looking for what few branches remained.

A woman named Wangari
watched all of this happening.
She decided that there must be a way
to take better care of the land and
take better care of the women and girls.

So she planted a tree.
And then she planted another.
She wanted to plant thousands of trees,
but she realized that it would take a very
long time if she was the only one doing it.
So she taught the women who were looking
for firewood to plant trees, and they were paid
a small amount for each sapling they grew.

Soon she organized women all over the country
to plant trees, and a movement took hold. It was
called the Green Belt Movement, and with each
passing year, more and more trees covered the land.

But something else was happening
as the women planted those trees.
Something else besides those trees was taking root.
The women began to have confidence in themselves.
They began to see that they could make a difference.
They began to see that they were capable of many
things, and that they were equal to the men.
They began to recognize that they were deserving
of being treated with respect and dignity.

Changes like these were threatening to some.
The president of the country didn’t like any of this.
So police were sent to intimidate and beat Wangari
for planting trees, and for planting ideas of equality
and democracy in people’s heads, especially in women’s.
She was accused of “subversion” and arrested many times.

Once, while Wangari was trying to plant trees, she was
clubbed by guards hired by developers who wanted the lands cleared.
She was hospitalized with head injuries.
But she survived, and it only made her realize that
she was on the right path.

For almost thirty years, she was threatened
physically, and she was often made fun of in the press. But she didn’t
flinch. She only had to look in the eyes of her three children, and in
the eyes of the thousands of
women and girls who were blossoming right along
with the trees, and she found the strength to continue.

And that is how it came to be that 30 million trees
have been planted in Africa, one tree at a time.
The landscapes–both the external one of the land
and the internal one of the people–have been
transformed.

In 2002, the people of Kenya held a democratic
election, and the president who opposed Wangari and
her Green Belt Movement is no longer in office.
And Wangari is now Kenya’s
Assistant Minister for the Environment.

She is 65 years old,
and this year she planted one more tree
in celebration and thanksgiving
for being given a very great honor:

Wangari Maathai has been awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first
African woman to receive this award.

After she was notified, she gave a speech entitled,
“What Do Trees Have To Do With Peace?”
She pointed out how most wars are fought
over limited natural resources, such as oil, land,
coal or diamonds. She called for an end to
corporate greed, and for leaders to build more
just societies. She added:

“Our recent experience in Kenya gives hope
to all who have been struggling for a better future.
It shows it is possible to bring about positive change,
and still do it peacefully. All it takes is courage
and perseverance, and a belief that positive change is
possible.
That is why the slogan for our campaign was ‘It is
Possible!’”

“On behalf of all African women, I want to express
my profound appreciation for this honour,
which will serve to encourage women in Kenya,
in Africa, and around the world to raise their
voices and not to be deterred.”

“When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of
peace and seeds of hope. We also secure the future
for our children. I call on those around the world
to celebrate by planting a tree wherever you are.”

As she received the Nobel Peace Prize this week
in Oslo, she invited us all to get involved:

“Today we are faced with a challenge
that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that
humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own.”

SALA Homes are helping to save the Daintree Rainforest by making a donation from the sale of their plans and information packs.

SALA Homes specialises in the supply of affordable and sustainable housing in pre-packaged format anywhere in the world. Our business vision is to demonstrate that sustainable housing can be as affordable as traditional housing models. We believe SALA Homes offers you the opportunity to build sustainable homes that are not only affordable but are attractive and practical too. For more information please visit http://www.salahomes.com.au

The Buddha, Prince Siddahartha was born in the Lumbini Sala grove. He attained Buddhahood under a Bodhi (ficus religiosa) tree. On the fifth week after attaining enlightenment the Buddha remained seated under a (Ficus bengalenisis) tree. The seventh week was under a tree called Raja-yatena. The Buddha attained parinibbana under a sala tree. His relation and knowledge of nature is reflected in the following sayings:

“The forest is a peculiar organism of unlimited kindness and benevolence that makes no demand for its sustenance and extends generously the products of its life activity; it affords protection to all beings, offering shade even to the axeman who would destroy it”

” Those who plant trees in temple gardens monasteries and forests will gather merit both day and night”

WATER is also used in the manufacture of paper to break down the raw material - slushing waste paper uses much less water than pulping wood. Making one tonne of recycled office paper uses 10,000 to 12,000 L of water, while the same amount of virgin paper swallows roughly twice that, at 20,000 to 25,000 L.

BLEACHING chlorine is commonly used to whiten paper, but it produces highly toxic by-products called organochlorins. look for more environment -friendly
options: virgin paper that carries the TCF label (totally chlorine free) or recycled paper marked PCF (processed chlorine free. Recycled paper is more environment-friendly in just about every way. To
support the market for recycling services look for paper made from a high proportion of post-consumer waste. We can only recycle each fibre about
seven times. Every time you recycle a fibre you damage it, so ultimately you’ve got to bring in virgin fibres. (Source G Magazine, Issue 3, May/June, 2007 ‘Virgin Vs Recycled Office
paper’ , www.gmagazine.com.au. G Magazine walks the talk.

ACTION: Make a choice to buy reams of paper with a high recycled component
for printers and home offices etc.

Southern Angle-headed Dragon’s are prehistoric-looking dragons, which use camouflage to blend in with their surroundings, especially in the face of danger. They are somewhat similar to the Boyd’s Forest Dragon of Queensland’s wet tropics however this species is subtropical being found in rainforests and adjacent wet sclerophyll forests on the coastal ranges of eastern Australia. They range from Gosford in New South Wales to Gympie in Queensland.

Being arboreal, much of their time is spent in the canopy or clinging to vines and small saplings. They are very much dependant on the rainforest for their shelter and food, feasting on a variety of insects including beetles, larvae and stick insects. They are also egg layers, with the females laying 2-8 soft-shelled eggs in spring and early summer.

Unfortunately, due to loss of habitat and illegal collecting the Southern Angle-headed Dragon is threatened with extinction and classed as vulnerable.

One of the few places you might be lucky enough to see a Southern Angle-headed Dragons is the Booyong Flora Reserve, a remnant of the Big Scrub in northern New South Wales. The Big Scrub was once the largest expanse of subtropical rainforest in Australia, whereas today less than one percent remains today as scattered fragmented remnants. Not for profit organisation Rainforest Rescue has been working with the Big Scrub Rainforest Landcare Group since 1999 to restore the Big Scrub remnants and ultimately the homes of species such as the threatened Southern Angle-headed Dragon. The Booyong Flora Reserve has been a major focus of their Big Scrub Restoration Project. Your tax-deductible donation to Rainforest Rescue and the Big Scrub Restoration Project will help us restore this valuable habitat. Funds are used to further this very successful project be engaging professional rainforest regenerators to remove weeds and allow natural regeneration of the rainforest. Please make a donation visiting www.rainforestrescue.org.au or phone 02 6684 4360.

Southern Angle-headed Dragon facts:

· Similar to Boyd’s Forest Dragon but Southern Angle-headed Dragon found in south-east Qld and northern N.S.W rainforests in coastal regions
· Arboreal
· Prehistoric-looking
· Dependant on rainforest for shelter and food
· Threatened

Threatened species found at the Booyong Flora Reserve
Threatened Flora

Ball Nut, Floydia praealta
Thorny Pea, Desmodium acanthodadum
Southern Ochrosia, Ochrosia moorei
Red Lilly Pilly, Syzygium hodgkinsoniae
Arrow Head Vine, Tinospora tinosporoides
Sweet Myrtle, Austromyrtus fragrantissima
Acalypha, Acalypha eremorum
Brush Sauropus, Phyllanthus microcladus
Isoglossa, Isoglossa eranthemoides

Threatened Fauna

Rose-crowned Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus regina
Superb Fruit-dove, Ptilinopus superbus
Black Bittern, Ixobrychus flavicollis
Southern Angle-headed Dragon, Hypsilurus spinipes
Eastern Long-eared Bat, Nycotophilus bifax
Greater Broad-nosed Bat, Scoteanax rueppellii
Little Bent-wing Bat, Miniopterus australia
Grey-headed Flying-fox, Pteropus poliocephalus
Black Flying Fox, Pteropus alecto