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Welcome to IEWF and RNC Alliance - Pacific website.
Last updated July 2010
Our aim is to restore degraded ecosystems and improve the natural function of urban landscapes.
One of our projects is the Habitat Network, an example of restoring natural capital in the urban environment.
See our new Habitat Network website
www.habitatnetwork.org
where you can discover how to
create a habitat haven (pdf 64.6 kb) and find out about conserving and creating
habitat for small birds and other native animals.
Download our latest brochure:
Weed removal & habitat - Before you start...look, listen & consider. (858 KB)
Visit our new introduction to
Restoring Natural Capital.
You can now also find and download copies of "The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status" and
"Weed Detection and Control on Small Farms" here on our home page.
Weed identification
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.
Download our latest brochure, which is useful for anyone involved in weed removal (bush regenerators,
bushcare volunteers and all gardeners). It highlights the need
to think about how weeds are being used as habitat and the creation of native replacement habitat
before weeds are removed:
Weed removal & habitat - Before you start...look, listen & consider. (858 KB)
Invasive vine control
To raise awareness of invasive vines in gardens and bushland
the following brochure has been produced in English and Mandarin:
Do you have aliens in your yard? (Download 1.38 MB)
園中有受外來植物侵佔嗎? (Download 2.99 MB)
Thank you to the
Tzu Chi Foundation Australia
for their translation and involvement in this project.
These brochures have been produced using Publisher. You can use these as the basis for developing
a brochure for your
community. Email us at info@iewf.org and we
will send the source document to you for you to change or we can adapt them for you.
We do request that all appropriate
acknowledgments are included along with your own details. Format is A4 with 2 folds = DL brochure size.
"The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status" publication
An introduction by Rod Randall ex Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management
and currently the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia:
"This publication is the outcome of a Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management
project, and is aimed at a large range of users from Commonwealth, state and local government officers,
to researchers, horticulturists, nursery owners, farmers, landscapers, consultants, groups of volunteers
looking after remnant bushland to home gardeners. Everyone who uses plants needs to be aware of the
weed potential of those plants and to be able to make informed decisions about which ones to use in their
operations. I hope to see a time, and not that far away, where the use of weedy plant species will
no longer be accepted in public and private plantings in Australia. This publication is offered to
help people to make responsible decisions in the types of plants they use in the future."
Download
"The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status" (3.12 MB)
"Weed Detection and Control on Small Farms" - new publication - April 2010
This booklet developed by University of New England, is available for free download below.
It seeks to describe 'best practice' principles for detecting and controlling weeds on
Australian farms, most appropriate to lifestyle or hobby farm owners. It discusses the importance of
controlling weeds, the principles of weed detection (where and when to look for weeds on the farm,
how to identify an unknown plant and what to do when a new weed outbreak is found),
weed control responsibilities and methods appropriate to small farm owners, guidelines for
responsible herbicide use and accreditation, and available weed control assistance.
Download
"Weed Detection and Control on Small Farms" (1.79 MB)
Hard copies of the booklet are available free of charge to weed professionals and small farm owners,
while stocks last. If you would like to receive one or more copies of the booklet in the post, please email
Michael Coleman at mcolema8@une.edu.au
or Brian Sindel at
bsindel@une.edu.au
, indicating your postal address details and the number of booklets required.
Weeds CRC Australia - link to archived website
A wealth of weeds information can be found on the
archived Weeds CRC website. The Weeds CRC was functional from 1995-2008.
Restoring Natural Capital (RNC)
Restoration of
Natural Capital
involves any activity that invests in the
replenishment (improved quality) of natural capital (native flora & fauna, biodiversity, water, soils, air
and sustainable land use) and as a result improves the flows of ecosystem goods
and services for the benefit of people and the environment.
Read more about
Restoring Natural Capital.
Habitat Network - an urban RNC project
The Habitat Network project aims to extend habitat and reconnect isolated populations of
small native birds, which are being lost from our urban areas. By recreating native plant connections
we will improve the ability of our native birds, animals and plants to survive.
Follow this link to find out more about the Habitat Network and to visit the
Habitat Network website.
You will find brochures, resources and links related to habitat creation.
Our brochures and documents can be downloaded and used by schools or for community projects.
Find out about the science behind this project and what you can do.
Schools
Restoring
Natural Capital environmental PowerPoint
presentation is available for Australian primary schools.
This colourful and informative 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.
Community nursery and garden
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
native & sustainable community gardens.
If you are interested in getting involved in the community nursery or in a community vegetable garden
please contact us at info@iewf.org.
Know Your Gardens Natives
To find that
hidden native garden in your own backyard visit
Know your garden's natives website.
Give a gift of native habitat plants
Give a donation and we will plant, on behalf of your gift recipient or yourself,
specially selected habitat plants which will help save the declining populations
of small birds in Sydney, Australia.
You can make a donation via our
MacroNature fundraising website. We plant specially selected
local provenance habitat plants on your behalf. We will send a laminated Certificate to the person you nominate
stating what has been planted on their behalf. Populations of small birds such as fairy wrens, white-browed wrens,
pardalotes and firetails are declining rapidly and need our help now. By restoring habitat and helping our
small birds we are restoring our natural capital.
All donations made in Australia are tax deductible
as we are a registered environmental organisation, see
Register of Environmental Organisations.
To learn a bit about us please continue .....
International Environmental Weed Foundation (IEWF) was registered
in July 2003 and is based in Sydney Australia.
We educate and facilitate projects relating to conservation, improved biodiversity, the restoration
of degraded ecosystems and restoring natural capital.
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.
These provide excellent resources for schools and their
environmental programs.
All of our projects are growing through community involvement.
If you want to be involved, use our resources, host an RNC Workshop or join the Habitat Network email us
at info@iewf.org.
We are the co-ordinator of the
RNC Alliance in the Pacific.
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 conservation and restoration.
If you need 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.
