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Welcome to the HABITAT NETWORK website
Connecting people and habitat

Last updated April 2012 - lots more bird and animal photos and videos - see "Lookup photos and You Tube videos" pages. See our latest article about Brush turkeys in your garden. Become a friend on our new Facebook page.

Find out more about creating small bird habitat, the Hunter's Hill small bird habitat project and Ryde river-to-river project, download article (1.54 MB). and see how to create a
Habitat Buffer A3 version (502 kb) and
Habitat Buffer A4 version (476 kb).

Lookup photos and YouTube videos (we now have over 70):
- native habitat plants
- birds
- animals in my backyard, encounters and habitat
- Habitat Network activities
- Habitat Network Youtube channel.
See our latest video: Buff-banded rail - 2 adults seen at Shrimpton's Creek, Ryde, NSW

HABITAT NETWORK

What is the Habitat Network?
Creating habitat in your garden
Resources
Our partners
The Science and Animals in my Backyard Surveys
Community native plant nursery and community garden
Links to member's projects and other habitat networks
Links to interesting information
Become a member
Graffiti & planting habitat barriers
2RRR - Real World Gardener
BirdLife Australia and Birds in Backyards - Powerful Owl project - request for information

WHAT IS THE HABITAT NETWORK?

The Habitat Network is a network of people conserving, reconnecting and creating habitat for the benefit of our native plants and animals enriching our environment and our community.

Our aim is to reconnect isolated populations of small native birds, pollinators and other native animals which through loss of habitat are rapidly disappearing from our urban and rural environments.

By including small pockets of native plants in our gardens, we can provide wildlife habitat. Connect to your neighbours and encourage them to include a habitat area in their garden and you have a start of a corridor. Why not get your whole street involved?

We can also work with our local Councils, bushcare and landcare groups to conserve our bushland and habitat areas, extend our bushland edges (specifically for habitat) and plant habitat havens (protective bushy islands) to enhance or create native corridors.

If you are in a bushcare or landcare group or a street habitat / community garden group please think about how to connect your patch to the nearest bushland area to extend or create a habitat corridor. Let us know what you are doing and we will help to promote your project. Wouldn't it be fantastic if we as volunteers could help connect habitat all the way across our city, town or region. If climate change is a reality and as our population increases these connections will be vital.

The Habitat Network is a Restoring Natural Capital project being run by International Environmental Weed Foundation (IEWF). IEWF is a not-for-profit organisation run entirely by volunteers. Visit our websites:

www.iewf.org
www.rncallliance.org

To find out how the Habitat Network started and read about some of our activities see our article "Networking, Habitat Restoration, and Restoration Education in Sydney, Australia" (813 KB) published in the Ecological Restoration magazine - June 2010 - special education issue. Visit Ecological Restoration on the web to see more from this publication.

Innovation Award
In May 2011 the Habitat Network won both the Innovation Award (joint 1st) and a Highly Commended for Urban Landcare. These were awarded by Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority as part of their 2011 Regional Awards. Well done to all of our Habitat Network members and to all who help with this project. Also well done to all other winning groups. Please see our "Activity photos" page above and read about other winners on the SMCMA website and in the SMCMA 2011 Winter Mambara Issue 31 (pdf 1.15MB).

Also see the video about the Habitat Network produced by SMCMA and look for the other winner's there too.

CREATING HABITAT IN YOUR GARDEN

Click here to:
* find out why we want to re-create lost habitat,
* learn how we can create habitat,
* see our habitat plant photos to discover what you may like to grow, and
* read our Habitat Network member's stories and see their photos.

Please take a look and print our new:
Planting a small bird habitat haven A4 (590 kb). and
Planting a small bird habitat haven A3 (676 kb).


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RESOURCES

We have a number of Resources including diagrams, information sheets and brochures which we encourage you to download and use. There are also simple to use web based resources which are there for you to use.

OUR PARTNERS

Visit our about us page to find out more about us and our project partners.

THE SCIENCE and ANIMALS IN MY BACKYARD SURVEYS

We have some wonderful people helping us survey, monitor and build the foundations for expanding this project. It is invaluable that we collect information about what is happening. You can help us collect this information by recording what you see in your garden or in nearby bushland. We would also like to hear about street trees and plantings that you see working as habitat corridors. Please follow this link to read about the Science and to find our "Animals in my Backyard Survey" form and how you can help us.

COMMUNITY NATIVE PLANT NURSERY and COMMUNITY GARDEN

We are currently working with City of Ryde to commence a community native plant nursery and community garden within Santa Rosa Park near Quarry Road in Ryde, for the benefit of the residents of Ryde and Hunter's Hill and our local environment.

Read about the Ryde community nusery and community garden and find links to other community nurseries, gardens and related sites here

If you would like to be involved please email: info@iewf.org

LINKS TO MEMBER'S PROJECTS & OTHER HABITAT NETWORKS

Follow this link to see members, other native corridor and habitat projects. Please let us know what you are doing so that we can network with your project too.

LINKS TO INTERESTING INFORMATION

Here you can find other useful information, including other networks, articles and research, and other fauna related websites.

BECOME A MEMBER

Find out how easy it is to become part of the Habitat Network click here

You can also become a friend on our new facebook page.

GRAFFITI & PLANTING HABITAT BARRIERS

Keep Australia Beautiful's Graffiti Action Day 2011 was run on Sunday, May 15.

In partnership with KAB we are encouraging planting habitat to deter graffiti and add to security while creating a habitat haven. Download our Habitat haven a natural graffiti barrier information sheet (413 KB) and A3 poster (454 KB)

Graffiti Action Day 2011 planted 1.5 km of plants as graffiti barriers. See some photos and reports of the activities on the Keep Australia Beautiful website.Also a couple of photos on our Activity Photo page above.

2RRR - Real World Gardener

Check out Marianne Cannon's "Real World Gardener" program on local Sydney radio 2RRR 88.5fm Wed 5pm and Sat 12 noon. You can also listen to interviews with Kurtis Lindsay, a talented naturalist, talking on different native birds and animals with Marianne by visiting http://realworldgardener.blogspot.com

BirdLife Australia and Birds in Backyards - Powerful Owl project - request for information