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25.01.2022 Earlier this week BioR's director David Paton and ecologist Tom Hunt took some guests around Frahns Farm, Monarto. Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley MP and the local member Tony Pasin MP were interested to see the success of our 4.95 kilometre, 167-hectare kangaroo-proof exclosure fence that was funded through the support of the Klein Family Foundation and the Federal Goverment's National Landcare Program. The overabundance of kangaroos in this region has a big impact o...n the ability of remnant vegetation to regrow and thrive, and make establishing planted habitat difficult as seedlings become heavily grazed. Our visitors were amazed to see the widespread recovery of the native open grassy woodlands on the property, and the high survival of our 2019 and 2020 plantings. Sheoaks, Sweet Bursaria and iron-grasses that were chewed down to sticks before the fence was installed in 2018 are now flush with vigorous new growth. While fences are a big infrastructure investment, they can be more cost-effective for revegetation projects than guarding individual seedlings from herbivores. Fenced exclosures also offer protection for remnant vegetation to resprout and recruit, helping do create biodiverse safe havens where our declining plants and animals can thrive. Image credits: 1: Alexander Hamilton, Office of Tony Pasin MP; 24: Tom Hunt #bior #conservation #nlp #landcare #habitatrestoration #southaustralia #wildlife #biodiversity #nature #frahnsfarm

24.01.2022 Recently, BioR director David Paton AM was interviewed on The Shifting Ape Podcast. The Shifting Ape podcast was created by Liam Crook and William Van Ausdal, who share stories of people actively creating a positive future for our planet. Across four decades, David has been studying, teaching and actively executing restoration ecology and ornithology practices in South Australia. Listen to the podcast here: podomatic.com//theshift/episodes/2020-08-12T05_14_51-07_00

24.01.2022 Yesterday, the BioR team were joined by The University of Adelaide scientists and a group of enthusiastic school kids to band woodland birds at Frahns Farm in the Monarto area. Bird banding research assists us to document birds' population structures, survival and movements, helping us to better understand how birds use an area and how we can best conserve them. This way we can be confident that when we put back habitat, the birds will use it and we can grow biodiversity! Dur...ing the sessions, we showed kids how birds are caught in mist-nets and, once extracted, how the birds are held while a numbered band is attached around their legs. But the best part was showing the kids how to hold the birds so that they could release them after they were banded. The joy on their faces was heartwarming!! We love sharing these experiences with the community, and kids in particular, as the more people that understand our science and develop a connection with our natural world, the better.

24.01.2022 How much do you know about our nest boxes program? BioR's Dr. Fiona Paton discusses why we must use nest boxes as a means of habitat to support our endangered wildlife. Keep an eye out for some beautiful Owlet-Nightjar chicks

23.01.2022 The light is fading on this opportunity... Tuesday 30 June is the last day you'll be able to make a tax-deductible donation before the end of the financial year. BioR is a registered tax-deductible organisation. Make a donation and use it to offset the amount of tax you pay in the 2019-20 tax year. ... Even better, feel good that you'll be contributing where it matters most - putting habitat back for the species that need it most!

22.01.2022 Name that Robin! Robins are one of our favourite species! We've picked out five different robins found in South Australia Can you name them all? Where have you seen them before?... Photo credits: David Jenkins, Sam Matthews, Tom Hunt

22.01.2022 BioR exists to create habitat for biodiversity. Get involved and join a movement that will help offset our ecological impact and contribute to a long-lasting environmental movement. ~~... Today, June 5th 2020, is World Environment Day. This year's theme is biodiversity; this it dovetails perfectly with the aims of our annual Planting Festival at Frahns Farm in the Adelaide Hills, which is now open for registration. This year the festival will run from the 13th 28th of June. We are delighted to have 25,000 seedlings to get in the ground to restore woodlands that will support our declining native species, but we can only do this with your help! What better way to celebrate our natural world and a return to (safely distanced) socialising than by gathering a group of friends or your family to help create a better future for our wildlife. Head to http://ffpf2020.eventbrite.com/ for all the details and to register, and from all of the team at Bio-R, thanks for making a difference. ~~ Many thanks to the generosity and skills of Nick Graalman Film Guy from Timelapse Adelaide for putting this beautiful piece together for us.

21.01.2022 Can you name this bird? Hint: It is one of Australia's smallest birds, measuring an average of 8g in weight and 9cm in length (from beak to tail). : @moth_nut (via Instagram)

21.01.2022 Today is #ReptileAwarenessDay. As well as birds and mammals, we are committed to conserving reptiles, amphibians and insects through our habitat restoration and wildlife monitoring. Did you know that Australia has the greatest number of endemic reptile species compared to any other country? ... Please help us fight for our wildlife by supporting us through volunteering at events (keep an eye out for our annual reptile monitoring day at Frahns Farm next month!), donating or spreading the word bior.org.au

20.01.2022 We're thrilled to report that our 23,500 seedlings that were planted by 300 amazing volunteers at Frahn's Farm in June have been given a much-needed drink, following more than an inch of rain so far this August! This year's Frahn's Farm Planting Festival was a little different to previous years. Despite crowd density restrictions forcing the festival to be spread across 11 days, we managed to plant more than four times as many seedlings as last year! A big thank you to all... those who dug such deep and wide water bowls in often rock-hard soil, as these bowls mean that our precious plants can make the most of any rain!! Frahn's Farm is a 550-hectare property on Crown land in the eastern Mount Lofty Ranges. BioR has a memorandum of understanding established with Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board (Natural Resources SAMDB) to help deliver a long-term native habitat restoration plan. Interested in volunteering at our future planting festival events? Sign up to our newsletter to keep up-to-date: bior.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe

20.01.2022 Some great news for the endangered Glossy Black-Cockatoos on Kangaroo Island! Since the devastating fires last summer, there have been more than 7000 drooping sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata) seedlings planted across 44 different Kangaroo Island properties. Thanks to you, our wonderful volunteers, donors and supporters, we were able to contribute 1150 seedlings to the cause. ... If you'd like like to contribute to our ongoing Glossies Fire Recovery Project, please do so here: bior.org.au/get-involved/glossies Read the full article from local Kangaroo Island newspaper The Islander here: theislanderonline.com.au//sheoak-on-the-menu-for-ki-glossy : Kangaroo Island Landscape Board

19.01.2022 Whatever else there is to say about the tumultuous year of 2020, we've had a good season for rainfall in southern Australia which has hugely benefited our habitat plantings at Frahns Farm, Monarto. Last week we inspected the recent revegetation and were amazed at how our seedlings are getting on. Our 2019 plants are now well established and made it through their first harsh summer with a 90% survival rate, and over 99% of the 23,500 plants from our 2020 planting festival ...(already 5 months old!) have survived! The scraped topsoil has done a great job at removing weeds to give our natives big a head start. This is on top of the tens of thousands of grasses that have germinated from our direct seeding efforts; the spear, kangaroo, and wallaby grasses sown last year have already flowered, creating an amazing waving sea of knee-high seedheads! The seedbank they have created provides an important food source for native animals, and they will germinate with the next big rains to create a thick growth of natives that will suppress any further weed growth. This coming summer will be the real test for our new seedlings, and it will be a big effort heading out soon to manually water our plants to ensure they hold up in the heat. In the meantime, it's been fantastic to see plants putting on vigorous new growth, including our endangered Menzel's Wattles ( ). The profusion of spring flowers is a delight, from the pale pinks of Small Scurf Peas ( ) and Austral Trefoil ( ), the soft blues of Native Flax ( ) and Blue Heronsbill ( ), the rich magentas of Holly Grevillea ( ) and Chocolate Lily ( ), and the bright golden sprays of Common Everlasting ( ). But the season so far has given this new habitat the best start we could have hoped for. Here's hoping it continues and we get some big summer rains, too! #bior #conservation #habitatrestoration #treeplanting #revegetation #frahnsfarmplantingfestival See more

17.01.2022 Following the devastating bushfires on Kangaroo Island earlier this year, we found another 20 Glossy Black-Cockatoos feeding on Sheoaks on Cygnet Park (in addition to the usual 16 birds), as well as one nesting pair! Check out this neat video from Exceptional Kangaroo Island of a Glossy nibbling on a Sheoak cone near Cygnet Park. As more than 50% of the cockies’ feeding habitat was burned in the Kangaroo Island Fire over summer, it is crucial that we continue to establish long-term feeding habitat for the Glossies. If you want to learn more or help these beautiful birds, check out our Glossies Fire Recovery Project: bior.org.au/get-involved/glossies

17.01.2022 You're never too young to make a difference We love when the next generation get involved in our planting festivals, helping us continue our legacy. We're close to announcing dates for the 2021 Frahn's Farm Planting Festival, so stay tuned

16.01.2022 Today is #WorldAnimalDay! This day aims to help raise awareness for animals suffering around the world from a range of environmental issues. At BioR, our aim is to reconstruct habitats for biodiversity. Reconstruction of habitats is needed to prevent on-going declines and losses of plant and animal species.... Do you want to make a difference? Donate here: bior.org.au/get-involved/offset-your-footprint Thank you

15.01.2022 Take a look at this gorgeous Glossy Black-Cockatoo, captured flying in slow motion! The video was taken by Exceptional Kangaroo Island at their office in Cygnet River on Kangaroo Island, which is only a couple of kilometres east of our Cygnet Park property.

15.01.2022 Our Autumn Newsletter 2020 is out! Enjoy the read. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, we'll post the link in the comments below. - Newsletter link: https://mailchi.mp/9b2ddf56d903/bior-autumn-newsletter-2020

14.01.2022 The plight of the Kangaroo Island Glossy Black Cockatoos is a cause close to Bio-R’s roots. Our first community planting festivals helped revegetate 170 hectares of farmland at Cygnet Park near Kingscote, where we established threatened plants and large stands of Drooping Sheoak (Allocasuarina verticillata), a vital food source for the few hundred Glossies remaining on the island. The fires that tore through Cygnet Park in January burned a small area of the property, but m...ost of the Glossies’ feeding and breeding habitat was spared. The same could not be said, however, for the rest of Kangaroo Island. Most of the island to the west was impacted by a fire of an unprecedented scale and severity. Over half the island burned. For the Glossies, over 50% of their feeding habitat was impacted and over 40% or nesting sites destroyed. We often have about 16 or so Glossies using Cygnet Park, with these birds feeding on sheoak cones in the revegetation. However, after the fires, there were an additional flock of about 20 birds on the property, likely birds from the island's west seeking refuge for feeding and roosting. Seeing these cockies using Cygnet Park, as well as recording one nesting pair, is evidence that we are achieving BioR’s long-term mission of reconstructing habitat for wildlife at a scale that can assist in halting biodiversity loss. After the fires in January 2020, Bio-R launched an appeal to raise funds for the Glossy Blacks on KI. Through the generosity of many donors, a substantial amount was raised and some of this money has been spent on growing and planting out sheoaks across the Island. In total the Recovery Team will be planting out 7,150 sheoaks on 26 private properties. With help from the Klein Family and Exceptional Kangaroo Island, fifty of these were planted into an area of burnt revegetation on Cygnet Park, with generous spacing to ensure they grow into large trees and are attractive for the Glossies to feed on. We would like to thank everyone who donated to the fund to help secure the future of these special birds. Photos: Tom Hunt, Fi Paton See more

13.01.2022 Today is National #ThreatenedSpeciesDay. Held on September 7th each year, this day aims to raise awareness for Australia's threatened flora and fauna. As a community and country, we need to work together to help prevent further extinctions and restore numbers of threatened species in our ecosystem. This is an important day for the BioR team as well, as this is precisely the awareness that we aim to create every day. Your generous donations (both time and money) help u...s carry out this mission. If you'd like to contribute, please consider making a donation through our website, or contact our team to arrange a direct bank transfer. Thank you : @moth_nut (via Instagram) of a Striated Grasswren (Mallee subspecies)

12.01.2022 It was great to have Kangaroo Island tour operator Exceptional Kangaroo Island join us for some bird banding at Cygnet Park earlier this week. It was promising to see such a wide range of species using our reconstructed habitat! Furthermore, 10% of the birds we caught had been banded on a previous occasion at Cygnet Park, illustrating that these birds aren't just moving through the area but are actually calling Cygnet Park home, with the habitat that we have reconstructed meeting their needs.

12.01.2022 That's a wrap for Frahns Farm Planting Festival 2020! On Wednesday the final plants for our Frahns Farm Planting Festival 2020 went in the ground. Around 1000 tubestock were left over after our final organised planting day on Sunday, which were finished off by small groups of committed planters over the next three days. Over the course of this year's festival, more than 300 volunteers planted over 23,500 plants in 14 days. That's more than four times as many plants as last ye...ar, with just a handful of extra volunteers. This is truly a significant effort on everyone's part, so from us at BioR we would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has been involved in this year's activities. We really cannot do it without you and look forward to seeing you again next year, which we are aiming to make even more impactful, meaningful and fun! Until then, rest assured we'll be in touch with more news and activities over the coming months. Thank You! From the Team @ BioR

10.01.2022 As a not-for-profit organisation, we rely heavily on donations and volunteers. Thankfully, we have an amazing team that is formed by donors, volunteers, and corporate partners, which help provide the funding and hours required to deliver on our vision to reconstruct habitats for biodiversity. This summer we formed the Glossies Fire Recovery Fund, to help fund on-ground works to help conserve the endangered Glossy Black-Cockatoo. Much of the Glossies habitat was devastated ...by the Kangaroo Island Fire. This year, we used some of the funds to grow over 1000 Drooping Sheoaks (Allocasuarina verticillata), an important tree that provides food and habitat for these gorgeous cockies and other wildlife. Our friends from Exceptional Kangaroo Island helped us plant 50 of these seedlings on Cygnet Park.

08.01.2022 UPDATED! Now is the time to be inviting your friends and sharing the event, dear volunteers! We will now take up to FIFTY registrations per day thanks to South Australia's COVID restrictions easing!... Find your date, invite your friends, get everyone registered on June 5 and we'll see you there! ORGANISATIONS / BUSINESSES: If you would like to organise your group to come out one day, send an email to [email protected] and we'll be in touch. Thanks!

06.01.2022 **Pitfall Trapping Event CANCELLED** Although the latest COVID restrictions in South Australia will be lifted on Saturday night, we will be unable to go ahead with our Pitfall Trapping event this Sunday 22 November 2020. Further, unfortunately we will not be able to postpone until a later date this year due to the availability of our staff and other volunteers. We are also disappointed by this outcome but look forward to being able to run the research again next year.

05.01.2022 It was fantastic to see so many of our amazing volunteers getting involved in our BAM! (Bushland Assessment Method) Community Days last weekend! To correctly and effectively measure the success of our revegetation efforts, we use the South Australian Department of Environment's Bushland Assessment Method. Some of the assessments in this method include recording the number of different plant life forms, looking for tree hollows, as well as measuring flowering heads and dea...d branches. This research is crucial to understanding how our revegetation efforts are faring, and gives us more data to work with in the future. If this is something you'd like to get involved in next time, please keep connected with us on social media for future opportunities. We're also on Instagram (instagram.com/bior_aus), Twitter (twitter.com/BioR_Aus), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/bior) and YouTube (youtube.com/user/BioRestoration).

04.01.2022 On Wednesday the final plants for our Frahns Farm Planting Festival 2020 went in the ground. Around 1000 tubestock were left over after our final organised planting day on Sunday, which were finished off by small groups of committed planters over the next three days. Over the course of this year's festival, more than 300 volunteers planted over 23,500 plants in 14 days. That's more than four times as many plants as last year, with just a handful of extra volunteers. This is t...ruly a significant effort on everyone's part, so from us at BioR we would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who has been involved in this year's activities. We really cannot do it without you and look forward to seeing you again next year, which we are aiming to make even more impactful, meaningful and fun! Until then, rest assured we'll be in touch with news and activities over the coming months. More photos to come! Thank You! From the Team @ BioR Photo: Garry Trethewey

03.01.2022 Great news! We've opened up another day of planting next Thursday 25 June for all of you who haven't been able to get a spot on the weekends. Click this link to Register! https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/frahns-farm-planting-festiv We've now got 6760 plants thanks to the 70 volunteers we have had join us so far, an average just shy of nearly 100 plants per person - what a stellar effort!... We've still got another 7 days of planting to put the remaining ~16,000 plants in the ground - join us and you'll be as satisfied as Anna, we promise! - Ecocreative

03.01.2022 We're running our Pitfall Trapping Community Day again in 2020! But get in quick, as places last year went in only a few hours. Register here: - https://mailchi.mp//frahns-farm-pitfall-trapping-community

03.01.2022 We've got a few BAM! Community Days coming up on September 24th and 26th! BAM (Biodiversity Assessment Method) is one way we record the condition of vegetation in our restoration sites. Come along to learn this easy technique in one of four sessions over the these days. No experience needed! But hurry, spots are limited and places are already filling quickly. Facebook event below or visit this link to go straight to the registration page: bior-bam.eventbrite.com.au/

01.01.2022 Registrations OPEN: Frahns Farm Planting Festival 2020 - book your spot before they all fill up! - http://ffpf2020.eventbrite.com/

01.01.2022 Curious to learn more about bird banding? Hear from BioR director Dr. David Paton as he explains what bird banding is all about and why it provides critical research to help declining populations of threatened bird species