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Welcome to the HABITAT NETWORK website
Connecting people and habitat
Last updated January 2012 - lots more bird photos also on animals photo page a baby flying fox as seen at
Riverglade Reserve just before Christmas. Best wishes for 2012.
New:
Find out more about creating small bird habitat and our Hunter's Hill small bird habitat 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).
See our latest You Tube videos:
Sulphur-crested cockatoos getting excited about the first rain drops before a storm.
- Grey-headed flying foxes at Riverglade Reserve, Gladesville.
Look for the baby clinging to mum early in the video.
- Brown thornbill and brown gerygone
both are tiny birds which move around very quickly, often in the canopy of trees and are therefore very difficult
to see and identify.
- a pair of Spotted pardalotes taking food to their nest and exiting their nest.
They were too fast to record entering their nest!
Spotted pardalote
- Blue tongue lizards
being a little amorous at the start of the warm weather at Looking Glass Bay, NSW.
Lookup photos:
- native habitat plant photos.
- bird photos and You Tube videos of birds.
- View photos and You Tube Videos of
Animals in my backyard, encounters and habitat and
Habitat Network activity photos
- provided by members.
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
A bit of fun - can you suggest a caption for this great photo provided by Peter Scott of these
White-breasted woodswallows? Some of the best captions will be displayed here! Email your suggestion
and also how you would like your name displayed if you are a winner! Sorry no prizes!
info@iewf.org
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WHAT IS THE HABITAT NETWORK?
The Habitat Network is a network of people 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.
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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 to assist:
Download our information sheet
An introduction to creating small bird habitat (pdf 340 kb).
This contains a detailed introduction to creating small bird habitat in your garden, bushland,
parkland and wasteland.
sustainable gardening
- Find out how you can create a native habitat garden which is
attractive, healthy and productive. Native plants, vegetables, pollinators, birds and
biodiversity all contribute to a healthy garden.
Follow this link to download a list of
native habitat plants for the Sydney region (16.1 KB)
and this link for some that are
edible. (14.6 KB)
Messy or weedy areas can provide good protection. It is important to protect existing habitat,
which is being used for nesting or as the main living location by native birds or animals, even if weedy.
If the habitat is weedy replacement native habitat needs to be either regenerated or planted in another
location AND only after it is in use by the target species should the weedy habitat be considered for removal.
Please download our brochure
Weed removal & habitat - Before you start...look, listen & consider. (432 KB)
Win-win-win - Reduce graffiti, add to security and create habitat. Download our
Habitat haven a natural graffiti barrier information sheet (413 KB) and
A3 poster (454 KB)
Lookup
native habitat plant photos.
Lookup
bird photos.
Lookup weed photos -
For quick and easy identification of common garden weeds, potentially invasive plants and
environmental weeds go to
Web Weed Lookup. Also find out more about what weeds are, how they are spread
and how to control them.
Print our A4 visual on how to
create a small bird habitat haven (pdf 409 kb) in your garden or bushland area.
For schools and projects here is an A3 poster with a sugggested size and numbers of plants
for creating a habitat haven (685 kb)
. Another with more
plant species suggestions (392 kb).
And to assist in the planning of your habitat haven please use this
checklist.
Planting a habitat haven poster A4 size - with plant guide cross section (590 kb). and
Planting a habitat haven poster A3 size - with plant guide cross section (676 kb).
Find out more about creating small bird habitat and our Hunter's Hill small bird habitat 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).
We thank Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority and the Australian Government
- Caring for Country - for funding the Habitat Haven diagram and
latest "Weed removal and habitat" brochure above. If you would like some brochures
for your habitat project (in Australia) please email us at info@iewf.org.
We are happy to provide some as long as supplies last. You are also welcome to print from the pdfs. We would love to hear about
how you use our resources.
Also thank you to Willoughby Council who printed the new Habitat Haven design on large canvas to use at the Bushcare display
at the Easter Show in Sydney 2011. And a special "well done" to Virginia Bear of Little Gecko for her wonderful artwork and design.
Habitat Network handout (259 kb) uses simple graphics to illustrate the concept of habitat.
Habitat Network poster A3(283 kb).
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OUR PARTNERS
Visit our
about us page to find out more about us and our project partners.
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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.
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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
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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.
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LINKS TO INTERESTING INFORMATION
Habitat and native animal information, and interesting projects creating crossings and
connections for nature and people can be found
here.
Here you can find other
useful information,
including other networks, articles and research, and other fauna related websites.
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BECOME A MEMBER
Find out how easy it is to become part of the Habitat Network
click here
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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.
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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
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