Lorne community help kickstart local restoration project

WORKS to remove invasive weeds and restore native vegetation on Lorne’s foreshore kicked off with a helping hand from the local community.

Last Tuesday, students from the Lorne Kindergarten and a team of community volunteers joined the Great Ocean Road Coast and Parks Authority (the authority) for a day of planting, sun and conservation education as part of the Lorne Habitat Restoration Project.

 

The group removed Coast Tea Tree weeds from along the foreshore and replanted Indigenous seedlings.

These included Stringybark, Mountain grey gum, Kidney weed, Drooping She-oak, Common tussock-grass, Hazel Pomaderris, Knobby club-rush, Prickly currant-bush, Bower spinach, Hop goodenia, Coast tussock-grass, Musk daisy-bush, Weeping grass, Coast beard-heath, Kangaroo Apple and Kangaroo grass.

Works to replant the area were made possible following a program of community consultation and feedback undertaken from June to August this year.

The Authority will be carefully monitoring the site for growth over the coming months and watering through dry periods.