Merewether Landcare
At the beginning of 2004, the Merewether Beach sand dunes were covered in Bitou Bush, a South African saltbush first brought..
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Merewether is a coastal suburb of Newcastle, Australia.
A coal mining village in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Merewether is now a popular surf beach and desirable residential area.
Merewether Landcare has been bringing native plants back to Merewether beach and headland since 2004.
By June 2011
- 33,000 Australian native plants in the ground
- 30 local native species flourishing
- Merewether dunes and headland cleared of weeds and regenerated with native plants
There are six other pages on this website
- For the history of our project, go to the Merewether Beach Project page
- The Evaluation & Learning page analyses our learning during the project and critiques the accepted approach to evaluating community conservation
- On the Coastal Processes page we discuss the coastal processes that shape our conservation work
- For information on local botany, conservationists and green spaces, go to the Ecology and Botany page
- Go to the Urban Planning and Design page for articles and papers advocating more informed and sensitive approaches to urban planning and design
- Go to the Novocastrian page for stories about Newcastle’s history, ecology and political economy
You can access these pages in two ways
Click on the orange Find Out More box on this page
This will take you to the Merewether Landcare page
There you will find a side bar with links to the other five pages
You can also go to any page by clicking on its name in the black bar on this page and then clicking on the orange Find Out More box
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