Year In Review — 2022-23 | Page 16

STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1 : SOLUTIONS FOR LIVING LANDSCAPES
Systems repair and rehabilitation
STRATEGIC PRIORITY 1 : SOLUTIONS FOR LIVING LANDSCAPES
Systems repair and rehabilitation
Work continued this year to restore degraded landscapes including the Bowling Green Bay Ramsar wetland , threatened beach scrub , and damaged sand dunes at Alva , south of Townsville .
Planted

8945

stems to revegetate across

8ha

Removed 1t

of rubbish across 169ha

of sensitive landscapes

Constructed 3

fishways to aid fish migration and open up an additional

20km

of habitat for native species
( Left ): Monitoring took place to determine the effectiveness of recently installed fishways at Sheepstation Creek .
( Right ): Senior project officers Jaymie Rains ( left ) and Brittany Butler with a sign discouraging motorists from driving over freshly revegetated sand dunes .
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