MidCoast/Port Stephens Koala Habitat Restoration Project

Brief description

The MidCoast/Port Stephens region of New South Wales has a long history of active and innovative vegetation restoration programs. However, there is no central repository for documenting these efforts. Participants in the Northern Rivers Koala Habitat Restoration Webinar in 2020 identified standardised data capture for restoration works as a priority action. This project has been developed to address that need. The format and content were developed by experienced ecological restoration practitioners. Data acquired on the location and characteristics of restoration sites, the work undertaken at the sites and the outcomes achieved create an information base for coordinating and planning large-scale restoration programs, and provide data for summarising and analysing restoration work at different spatial and temporal scales. Data is entered into standard forms. The Site Information and Work Details form captures characteristics of the work site and details the on-ground restoration activities conducted at the site. A second data form, currently in development, will log the results of site monitoring programs. The data entry templates developed for this project are available to ALA BioCollect Ecoscience Projects in other regions and with other vegetation restoration goals. Assistance with navigating the project and entering data is available in the User Guide which can be found in the Resources page. The project is jointly funded by American National Science Foundation Grant CNH-L: Dynamics of zoonotic systems: human-bat-pathogen interactions and the NSW Koala Strategy.