With more than a decade of experience now, and close to 800 hectares of healthy habitat restored, the project has learned a great deal about successful planting.
It's not good enough to just get seedlings in the ground: every seedling that arrives on-site represents a significant investment. It takes money, time, and a lot of effort to collect and propagate seed, then care for thousands of young trees and shrubs until they are ready to be planted.
This is a landscape-scale project and it is just not possible to nurture every individual plant. Once the seedlings are in, they have to survive as best they can — and there are many difficulties they must overcome:
Over the years, we have learned how to achieve excellent success rates. With our current planting technique, we expect — and get — better than 90% long-term survival, often better than 95%.
Every plant is precious, and we treat them that way!
On the next few pages, you'll see how we do it:
