- Identifying and tackling threats to biodiversity
- Improving knowledge of the biodiversity
- Involving landowners and communities in biodiversity conservation
- Managing natural resources better, for ecologically sustainable development
- Protecting native species and ecosystems
The Trust has committed a further $2.7 million over the next three years for ongoing biorestoration activities across the Parklands.
These biorestoration activities include:
- The Environmental Monitoring component which will establish much needed base line information to provide a record of what flora and fauna are currently in the Parklands and monitor changes over time. They will also assist the Trust to target future restoration programs and measure the effect of the Trust's work to improve the sustainability and ecological productivity of the Parklands.
- The Priority Sites component will reduce the impact of targeted weed species and other threatening processes to identified Endangered Ecological Communities within the Parklands. The viability of these endangered flaura communities will be enhanced through planting and restorative works.
- The Threat Abatement component concentrates on larger scale weed management and impact mitigation. The first stage will be in the Eastern Creek Catchment area of the Parklands.
2010 Western Sydney Environment Calendar
This program is now administered by the Western Sydney Parklands Trust and aims to encourage school-aged children to think about what they can do to lessen their impact on the planet and explore current issues affecting their environment.
The program consists of an art competition with an environmental theme, open to all NSW Government primary school children from the Greater Western Sydney region. A winning artwork is selected from each of the 14 Local Government Areas and these winning artworks will appear in the 2010 Calendar.
The original artworks are framed and exhibited in an art exhibition before being returned to the winning schools. 5000 calendars are distributed across Western and South Western Sydney.
Each year a new environmental theme is selected and the theme for 2010 is 'Parklands - Space for our Wildlife'. The Calendar is produced in partnership with DET, Department of Planning, Department of Environment and Climate Change, NSW National Park and Wildlife Service, Landcom and Reln Pty Ltd., all generous sponsors of the program.
