Bankstown
Bushland Society has been a strong advocate for remnant bushland
preservation since 1988. With a small core group of participants, we
programme volunteer bush regeneration days twice monthly, many of
these volunteer activities are in support of grants won from the
Environmental Trust and from Envirofund.
Bankstown has about 300ha
of remnant native vegetation with approximately 900 species of
native plants, including many rare or threatened, such as the
recently rediscovered Tylophora woollsii which was found on
one of our Envirofund grant sites at Chullora. This plant has only
once before been observed in the Sydney region, by its original
discoverer the Reverend Woolls, at Parramatta in the mid 19th
century.
More than half of
Bankstown’s bushland is situated along the sandstone corridor of the
Georges River in the Georges River National Park, but there are
dozens of other sites of varying sizes scattered through the densely
urbanised clay-soil and scape of the city. Our largest Cumberland
Plain Woodland site is the 99 hectare Lansdowne Reserve, home to
rare flora such as Acacia pubescens,
Pimelea spicataand Masdenia viridiflora.
As well as our own volunteer and grant
efforts, Bankstown Council employs its own professional team of
regenerators, and is a strong supporter of the Bushcare volunteers.
There is a lot happening bush regen wise in Bankstown and we are
proud to be part of it.
Another place of special
interest to us is the rare Turpentine-Ironbark remnant at The Crest
of Bankstown at Bass Hill, with its rainforest ecotonal or
‘brushforest’ understory comprised of locally isolated species such
as Acronychia oblongifolia,
Melicope micrococcaand Rhodamnia trinervia. These, along with populations of rare
species such as Typhonium brownie and
Parsonsia lanceolata,
have all but disappeared from Western Sydney.
Colin Gibson
For information on the Society contact Col
Gibson 97886232
The
Bankstown Bushland Society Inc
