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Welcome to IEWF and RNC Alliance - Pacific website.
Restoring degraded ecosystems.
Last updated May 2009
- see below - check out our new invasive vine brochures (links below) and our news page, help create a community garden and nursery, how to get your free environmental presentation
for primary schools and new link to
what can be done as a community
to restore our natural goods and services .
All donations made in Australia are tax deductible as we are a
registered environmental organisation, see
Register of Environmental Organisations.
We are also signatories to the
ACFID Code of Conduct.
For quick and easy identification of common garden weeds, potentially invasive plants and
environmental weeds go to
Web Weed Lookup. Also find out more about what weeds are, how they are spread
and how to control them.
As a result of our RNC workshops we are working in co-operation with
the local governments of Ryde and Hunter's Hill to create a community nursery and a
native & sustainable community garden (respectively). See below for more information about our workshops.
If you are interested in getting involved in the community nursery or garden please contact
IEWF at info@iewf.org.
To raise awareness of invasive vines in gardens and bushland
of Ryde and Hunter's Hill the following
brochure has been produced in English and Mandarin as part of our on-going RNC Habitat Network project:
Do you have aliens in your yard?
園中有受外來植物侵佔嗎?
Thank you to the Tzu Chi Foundation Australia
for their
translation and involvement in this project.
These brochures have been produced using Publisher. If you can use these as the basis for developing a brochure for your
community please email us at info@iewf.org.
We will be happy to send the source document to you. We do request that if used all appropriate
acknowledgments are included. Format is A4 with 2 folds = DL brochure size.
To find that
hidden native garden in your own backyard visit
Know your garden's natives website.
NEW - free Restoring
Natural Capital environmental PowerPoint
presentation for Australian primary schools.
This colourful and interesting PowerPoint presentation (including script) covers many facets
of the current primary curriculum.
It explains what is natural capital, how we are losing our natural capital
and gives many simple examples of what can be done to improve our local environment.
It also talks about the importance of native habitat and
encourages the creation of a habitat area in your school grounds to link into a habitat network.
To get a copy of this presentation simply email info@iewf.org.
We can either send you a link from which to download the presentation or we can mail
a DVD to your school at no charge. Please provide the name of your school and location.
Free Restoring
Natural Capital (RNC) Workshop
Our land can never be taken back to a time before man however we can improve its function
for the benefit of man, production and nature.
The RNC Workshop, which we can either run
for you (if you are in Australia) or provide for you to use,
helps a community to find a common or collective vision for their local area
and to find affordable and achievable solutions to achieve this vision.
Visions might be cleaner water, fresher air, improved soil health, more native habitat,
more productive farm land, increased number of pollinators, a closer community ......
the possibilities are endless.
This workshop applies to urban, agricultural and natural areas and looks at the landscape as a whole.
We can provide you with the working notes/handout and PowerPoint presentation
which will allow you (or your local government or authority) to run this workshop
with your local community.
This flexible workshop explains natural capital, why natural/ecosystem capital is important,
how we lose our natural capital and
what can be done as a community
to restore our natural goods and services. This leads into
usually very interesting discussions about how local natural capital
is being lost which helps identify a common vision for your community.
Once a vision is agreed possible projects can be identified, discussed, assessed for achievability
and prioritised. A half day will get you through to identifying your vision.
The group can then go away and think about activities which may help in the restoration
and reconvene at a later date to discuss these possible projects.
We have run this workshop in Australia and Ecuador and it has been distributed
for use by communities in Australia, Ecuador, Asia, Africa, Europe and the USA mostly to schools,
environmental groups and government environmental departments. It is currently available in English and Spanish
and can be used to help launch specific local restoration projects. See also link to
Workshop page.
For more information send an email to info@iewf.org.
In May 2008 we won an Envirofund Round 9 grant
from the Australian Government which has helped us extend this program
and is allowing us to do additional on-ground projects in Ryde and Hunter's Hill in NSW.
Our grant project is entitled "Restoring Natural Capital for Community and Landscape
Level Benefits". See our News page for more information.
For Sydney based groups or businesses we can run introductory RNC presentations
which run for about 1 hour maybe over lunch or in the evening. Why not ask your local council to
arrange a presentation for you and your neighbours.
To learn a bit about us please continue .....
International Environmental Weed Foundation (IEWF) was registered
in July 2003 and is based in Sydney Australia.
Our mission is to work with people to help them learn more about healthy landscapes
in relation to the vegetation, soils, water, air, production and social systems.
We support and facilitate projects relating to conservation, biodiversity and the restoration
of degraded ecosystems and we provide funding (subject to approval)
for small community projects and related environmental research and education projects.
For more information contact us at info@iewf.org
Our Web Weed Lookup and Know Your Garden's Natives projects help people discover
what may be found in their own backyard and surrounding areas.
They provide excellent resources for schools and can be used by schools within their
environmental programs.
All of our projects are growing through community involvement.
If you want to be involved, use our resources or host an RNC Workshop email us
at info@iewf.org.
We are the co-ordinator of the
RNC Alliance in the Pacific.
The RNC Alliance is a world-wide network of volunteers (scientists, practitioners, land managers, NGOs, government bodies
and other interested parties)
working together to restore natural capital (RNC). By working with communities
we help to identify the issues within the overall landscape and
help identify simple and inexpensive solutions to
improve the landscape function for the benefit of the people, their production systems
and the natural environment.
Our conservation project, part of a habitat link being created
from Hat Head National Park to LimeBurners Creek Nature Reserve
"For Rest"
is an example of our active dedication to the preservation of our natural capital (environment).
Help us by making a donation or buying a photo. You can visit
MacroNature Sponsors Store
where you can buy interesting nature digital photos or make a donation from the MacroNature
donations page using your Visa or Mastercard.
If you prefer to send us a donation by cheque please visit our donations page on this site.
If you want weed photos you can copy from this site if you ask us first - please email.
We also include links to other sites who are working on similar projects. If you would like your site
included please contact IEWF at info@iewf.org.
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Restoration of Natural Capital, Crescent Head, NSW, Australia
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Thank you to Beagle Research Company Limited
for their generous support.
