Join us for a FREE webinar on Tiny Forests this June!

Join Carbon Positive Australia on Wednesday, June 5th, for World Environment Day, where we will host an informative Tiny Forest webinar.

This webinar will showcase the wonderful world of tiny forests and forest makers across Australia, highlighting the incredible benefits these forests offer to communities and nature.

Find out more and reserve your spot below:

Why Tiny Forests?

Tiny but mighty, these forests are designed to thrive in small urban environments. Within a few square meters, tiny forests enhance urban biodiversity, help reduce urban heat and offer an incredible opportunity to strengthen community cohesion.

What to expect:

• This webinar will allow you to explore how tiny forests have been adapted across Australia to suit local environments and meet each community's specific needs and challenges.
• It will also generate ideas for harnessing their potential in your?own?community.

Register here

Thank you to our partners

We are excited to welcome new business partners. THREE BLUE DUCKS , Neoscape , Baileys and Zoetis .

These organisations support our tree-planting projects and broader community work. Thank you to all of our partners and donors for their ongoing support.

If you are interested in partnering with us or expanding your existing support, please get in touch.

News from our planting sites

We are getting excited. Winter is almost upon us, and our major planting is about to begin. In partnership with community groups, local landholders, and other organisations, we will plant mixed native species across the country to repair degraded land, restore biodiversity, and capture carbon.

Check out the map below to find out where we’ll be planting.

A critical part of our work is ensuring the long-term success of our planting projects. This means regularly returning to our planting sites to monitor growth and survival.

This Autumn, we conducted monitoring assessments at eight of our project sites. The results were extremely pleasing, particularly given the hot, dry summer experienced at many of our sites.

• The average tree height at our Tootanellup project (established in 2021) has more than doubled since last year to an average of 1.1 metres.
• We also recorded an average survival rate of 92% at our Warralakin project (established in 2023), an incredible result given that the area received less than half its average annual rainfall!

Check out some photos below:

In the news

Carbon Positive's Porongurup planting site made it to Channel 7 regional news this month. In partnership with local landholder Jack Shiner and revegetation expert Dr Geoff Woodall, we are restoring this 20-hectare site with a biodiverse mix of native trees and shrubs to provide food and habitat for a range of local fauna, including the endangered Honey Possum.

Earlier this month, Louise Tarrier (CEO at Carbon Positive) presented at the Western Australian Landcare Network’s ‘Revegetation on Farms’ webinar. The webinar topics included the wider benefits of revegetation on farms, planting methods, practical challenges and a case study. Louise also discussed how landholders can partner with Carbon Positive Australia to restore their property with native trees and shrubs.

You can watch a recording of the webinar here.

Other news

The recent Australia’s Environment in 2023 | TERN Australia report is a timely reminder that critical action is required to protect and restore our unique environment.

Our key takeaways from the report were:

• Western Australia has the lowest State Condition Score of all states (5.5/10) and has decreased by 0.4 since last year
• Nationally, plant abundance is down 71% since 2000
• Nationally, tree cover has declined by 5% since last year (a combination of clearing, drought stress, bush fire and pest outbreaks)
• A record 130 species were added to the EPBC Act List of Threatened Species (total = 2,098)

Help us to support our environment and increase native vegetation across Australia to turn these numbers around.

Donate here: www.carbonpositiveaustralia.org.au/donate/