Community & Business
3 June, 2025
Tree planting outcomes focus of free gathering
A FREE presentation on the progress of replanting native rainforest trees on Atherton Tablelands properties will be held at Malanda this week.
The Tree Kangaroo and Mammal Group is hosting the evening talk to help the community understand what progress is being made across the Atherton Tablelands with the many tens of thousands of native rainforest trees being replanted on many properties.
The talk will reveal whether the revegetation work stabilises soils, reconnects nature and brings wildlife back.
Nigel Tucker, a well-known local ecologist who has been involved in tree-planting and ecosystem regeneration for many years, will provide an illustrated public talk.
He will focus on the long-running Donaghy’s Corridor along Petersen Creek creating connections between Yungaburra and Lake Eacham.
“After 25 years of this work, it will be interesting as to what outcomes have been confirmed for wildlife, how the habitat has changed and, with those changes, whether particular groups of wildlife were encouraged to return,” TKMG president Peter Valentine said.
Mr Tucker is an Atherton Tablelands local who was born and raised here, went to the University of Queensland for a Diploma in Applied Science and to James Cook University for a Masters Degree in Tropical Ecology.
He has been working in the region for 40 years now (at CSIRO and QPWS) and, for the last 20, has established and developed his own firm Biotropica Australia.
He is an acknowledged expert on ecological restoration and has particular interests in landscape connectivity, seed dispersal and the evolution of Australian plants.
His public presentation on wildlife corridor development and outcomes will be given at the Malanda Hotel on Thursday, beginning at 7.30pm. All interested people are invited, and the presentation is entirely free.
