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The Illawarra rainforest "the thickest jungle in the colony" (Allan Cunningham, Colonial Botanist, 1818), once covered the local region. Today, the Illawarra's native vegetation is sadly weed-infested. By 1997, when we bought our 135 acres, what were once rainforest creeks had become a sunless monoculture of privet. For the past seven years we have been regenerating these precious rainforest creeks and working hard to restore the native flora on all our property. It has taken tens of thousands of dollars and almost as many hours to return (so far) two of these creeks to a nascent rainforest, full of baby Red Cedar (Toona australis), the "red gold" logged almost to oblivion a century ago. The size of our bush regeneration project makes it a pioneering endeavour for private landholders.
As committed conservationists we have also entered into a Property Agreement keeping our land safe from development for ever. As well as conserving (and improving) the rainforest, it is hoped that this will provide a guaranteed sanctuary to threatened fauna including the Sooty owl, Long-nosed potoroo, Tiger quoll, Olive whistler and Stuttering Barred Frog.
The success of our rainforest regeneration project has been recognised by the Federal Government in the award of an Envirofund Grant and by the local community. The Illawarra Subtropical Rainforest which now grows along our creeks is classified as an endangered vegetation community and the proceeds from your stay are spent helping to fund a team of bush regenerators who prevent the reinvasion of weeds onto the site.
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