Coastal Restoration & maintenance - 2007

 

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Indicator description

Read more about coastal restoration in the Coastal Management Planning indicator.

Shoalhaven Bushcare Program

Summary of Bushcare volunteer people hours

To date Council’s Bushcare volunteers have contributed 33,498 volunteer hours to restoring and improving Council’s bushland reserves and natural areas. At the standard rate of $20 per hour that Volunteers Australia has identified as the hourly in kind value for volunteer labour this is equal to $669,960 worth of value to Council that the Bushcare Program contributes to date.

Below is a break down of what activities the volunteers hours have been spent on.

Table 1 – Breakdown of Bushcare Volunteer Hours from June 2005 – June 2007

Planting

Weed control(manual)

Weed control(chemical)

Fencing

 Track work

Mulching

Education

Admin

4808

 

19604

 

2767

 

302

 

2152

 

864

1375

1626

Work of Bushcare and Landcare Groups

Examples of Bushcare group actions along the coast include:

Northern Area | Central Area | Southern Area

 

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