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Hello Treeforce Citizen Scientists,

An absolute honour and delight to have Peter Stanton take us on a walk throughout our regions vegetative history, explaining the changes in our ecosystem, in Freshwater, Mt Whitfield and Redlynch Valley.
By loosing the #traditionalowners cultural burning practices, a huge loss in biodiversity has been the result.
Rainforest trees have overcome the fire dependent, isolated Wet Sclerophyll forest patches, which were present on the hills before colonisation, and were created over many thousands of years of land management by the Traditional Owner groups in the area.
These #endangered Wet Sclerophyll trees are important for creating diverse #habitat types for a range of specialist critters, such as the #yellowbelliedglider
We were all in awe of this living legends’ knowledge, passion and presence and we hope he will take us for another educational wander soon 🙏🌱🏞️
Treeforce would like to acknowledge the #yirrganydji and #djabugay Traditional Owners of the areas we walk, work and help restore

 

This project received grant funding from the Australian Government’s Communities Environment Program and the Queensland Department of Environment and Science’s Qld Citizen Science Grant.

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