$400,000 Caring for our Country grant for 'Developing sustainable production systems, resilient to climate change - Baselining'

 

Brushwood Industry Development Plan

Funds have been granted by the Wheatbelt Development Commission for a Brushwood Industry Development Plan. Key Stakeholders will be invited to contribute and guide the development of this fledgling industry.

 

 

Review of the Avon River Basin Tree Crops Development Strategy

New AVONGRO Strategy and Directions

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AVONGRO would like to acknowledge funding from Lotterywest which is funding this review.

(www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au)

 

 

Bioenergy in the Avon Case Studies - the report and presentations from the Fourm held in August 2007 can be found at:

Bioenergy

AVONGRO would like to acknowledge funding from the Western Australian Sustainable Energy Development Office for funding the Report.

 

 

Research Into Direct Seeding

The number of plants that are required for any tree crop to be truly commercial is huge - many millions of any one species will be needed to ensure a continuous volume of resource to supply most new industries based on tree crops in the Avon.

Current establishment with seedlings is reliable but costly. To supplement nursery grown seedling numbers, direct seeding techniques need to be developed to significantly increase the area of land that can be planted. Dr Geoff Woodall (Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, Albany) will be trialing a variety of direct seeding methods and AVONGRO has been fortunate in securing funding from Lotterywest to contribute to his project. Hopefully Geoff's work will result in a more cost effective way to establish vast areas of commercial and biodiversity plantings in a range of conditions.

AVONGRO would like to acknowledge funding from Lotterywest which is contributing to this research.

(www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au)

 

 

 

Revegetation As Carbon Sinks

In early February 2006, a short series of workshops and information sessions were held in Western Australia by the Australian Greenhouse Office, an international lawyer specialising in carbon legislation and other experts in this emerging field.

There is enormous interest in carbon sequestration using revegetation with either biodiversity plantings or planting of commercial species. Some of the key points that came out of the sessions were that .... Download Report >

 

 

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