Habitat restoration works forge ahead in Lorne

Published on 14 September 2023

Works to remove invasive Coast Tea Tree and restore native vegetation on the Lorne foreshore have forged ahead thanks to help from the local community.

On Tuesday 12 September, students from Lorne Kindergarten and a team of local community volunteers joined the Authority for a morning of planting, sun and conservation education, as sections of the Lorne Foreshore were replanted with indigenous seedlings.

Works to replant the area were made possible following a program of community consultation undertaken in June-July 2023, and the release of a What We Heard report released in August detailing community feedback received by the project.

Indigenous species planted include Stringybark, Mountain grey gum, Kidney weed, Drooping She-oak, Common tussock-grass, Hazel Pomaderris, Knobby club-rush, Prickly currant-bush, Bower spinach, Hop goodenia, Coast tussock-grass, Musk daisy-bush, Weeping grass, Coast beard-heath, Kangaroo Apple and Kangaroo grass.

We’d like to thank the dedicated group of 14 community members and 12 Lorne kinder kids that joined seven Coastal Rangers to revegetate and revitalise the area.

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