Who We Are
Budgewoi
Beach
Dunecare
commenced
Coastal
rehabilitation
works
along
Budgewoi
Beach
in 1995
in
collaboration
with
National
Parks
and
Wildlife
Service
and 12
months
later
with
Wyong
Shire
Council.
Budgewoi
Beach
Dunecare
has
been
instrumental
in
successfully
implementing
innovative
restoration
techniques,
some
of
which
are
documented
in the
Coastal
Dune
Management
Manual
adopted
by
Wyong
Shire
Council
in
2006.
Since
its
inception
a
small
group
of
volunteers
have
transformed
2km of
Budgewoi
Coastline
from a
degraded
weed
infested,
sand
mined
wasteland
into a
balanced
coastal
ecosystem.
Access-ways
and
raised
walkways
allow
protection
and
appreciation
of the
coastal
wetlands.
Restored
ecologically
endangered
communities
allow
an
understanding
of the
need
for
biodiversity
conservation.
Our Mission
This web site is to help address the fundamental steps in coastal restoration and encourage our community to join in and be a part of caring for the coast.
Through Awareness - Understanding
Through Understanding - Appreciation
Through Appreciation - Protection.
What We Do
Works
carried
out by
the
group
include:
- Restoration of sand dune ecosystems and securing their biodiversity
- Propagation, planting tube stock, direct seeding, and transplanting locally indigenous plants.
- Site vegetation and weed management, maintenance and monitoring
- Access way, boardwalk, viewing platform, design and construction
- Beach Profiling, fore-dune realignment, fore-dune stabilisation, and monitoring.
- Connectivity of Ecologically Endangered Communities by linking fragmented coastal landscapes back to linear corridors and extending biodiversity of the site.
- Lobbying for greater protection of our coastline. The entire site having E2 (environmental conservation) status under the Local Environmental Planning Policy.
- Involve all tiers of education, government and the community in the restoration
