Donation Injects New Life Into Wetlands
Central Coast Herald
Friday April 4, 2003
HELP is at hand for one of the Central Coast's most significant, yet degraded wetland habitats.
Banrock Station Wines and Landcare Australia have combined to donate $28,000 to the Davistown-Saratoga Wetlands Support Group.
The money will be used to begin to restore the wetlands at the edge of Paddys Channel and Lintern Channel at Davistown.
Wetlands support group co-ordinator Bill Evans said the funds would bring forward the rehabilitation of the wasteland into a productive wetland system.
"Over the next two years, the project will regenerate the existing wetland area with native species, construct additional breeding habitat for the endangered green and golden bell frog and start to eradicate invasive weeds," he said.
Mr Evans said public access would also be improved with walking tracks, boardwalks, a bird hide and signage.
He said more than half of the country's original wetlands had been lost since European settlement, due to urban development.
Gosford Mayor Robert Bell said the project was a step in the right direction.
"The restoration of this wetland habitat will improve the health of the local ecosystem," Cr Bell said.
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