Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan

The Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan (NHCRP) is a waterway rehabilitation program which strategy to restore degraded a riparian corridor on the Naturaliste Estate.

The plan delivers waterway corridor restoration through native revegetation, weed management and water cleansing.

It’s been designed to provide the community with opportunities to take part in revegetation and rehabilitation activities which improve the water quality flowing into Annebrook Stream (Station Gully Drain) and establishes dense habitat for black cockatoos and possums.

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Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan (NHCRP)

We believe in common sense environmentalism – protecting photosynthesis processes, regenerative farming, natural habitats, wildlife, sustaining ecosystems, clean waterways and preventing pollution.

The Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan (NHCRP) is a scaled drawing of ecological rehabilitation showing, in specific terms, how to build a “living water filter” and wildlife habitat.

In order to fully understand the existing conditions within the stream, and knowing that effective and meaningful intervention requires sufficient data about the existing underlying stream conditions, a thorough analysis has been conducted by a leading ecological consultant and affiliated consultants.

Out of this analysis has emerged a plan to rehabilitate and manage the Naturaliste Habitat Corridor using an integrated approach.

You can download the Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan here, but in summary it addresses:

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Hydrology
A new meandering watercourse to improve hydrological function. A series of cleansing pools within an expanded stream corridor organised by embankments and low, undulating depressions designed to treat polluted water entering the stream.
Topography
A system of embankments and depressions directs water flow. Incorporating fill from the surrounding livestock paddocks, the entire Habitat Corridor zone is carefully graded and shaped into contours creating a terrain of banks and depressions.

The stream waterways serve to remove pollutants through settlement, aeration and bio-processing, allow retention for aquifer recharge and highlight the different modalities of water as it moves down the stream.

The embankments also serve to buffer the surrounding paddocks from flooding, making residential and equine construction possible.
Vegetation
Native plantings cleanses stream water and create habitat. Across this undulating landscape, the strategic placement of indigenous flora species reflects aesthetic, historical, ecological and climatic considerations.

An emphasis on region-specific vegetation supports the re-establishment of diverse plant communities which existed prior to colonial land clearing and encourages colonisation by indigenous and endangered wildlife.

Very specific plant selection re-creates the original pre-colonial stream environment: together with topographical variety, differentiation of species into groupings creates the ideal habitat for fauna indigenous to the Cape Naturaliste region to flourish.

Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Blueprint

You can download the blueprint here and the final version of the Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan here! If you’ve recently sponsored and named a neighbourhood, it will appear on the blueprint shortly.

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Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan

Naturaliste Habitat Corridor Rehabilitation Plan (NHCRP)

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