Our restoration projects

Crayweed provides food and habitat to a huge diversity of fish and invertebrates, including economically important abalone and crayfish.

Wild Deserts is an exciting project with a vision to understand, restore and promote desert ecosystems through ecosystem manipulations, reintroductions and collaborative partnerships. The field site covers about 40,000 ha, where we are introducing locally extinct mammals, controlling invasive species and managing kangaroos to restore the desert ecosystem.

This project uses recent innovations in seagrass restoration to revegetate an endangered seagrass, Posidonia australis, in boat mooring scars where environmentally friendly moorings have recently been installed. 

This project aims to investigate ecological barriers to the recovery of functionally extinct Sydney Rock Oyster reefs on Australia’s east coast and restoration methods to reinstate their key ecosystem services.

We're collaborating on one of the largest restoration projects in the Murray-Darling Basin, which aims to integrate social, cultural and environmental values. This project builds on the historic opportunity to develop an innovative approach to the land, water and cultural management of the Gayini wetlands with a consortium led by the traditional owners of the Nari Nari Tribal Council and involving The Nature Conservancy and the Murray Wetlands Working Group.

Part of the Centre for Ecosystem Science, the Platypus Conservation Initiative was established in 2016 for the purpose of reducing the risk of extinction to platypuses through scientific research, improved management, and increased awareness.