Volunteers have planted almost 700 native trees, shrubs and grasses along the banks of the Hobart Rivulet for National Tree Day.
The revegetation effort was led by the Hobart Rivulet Bushcare group, which has planted more than 3,500 native plants along the rivulet in just three years.
A City of Hobart spokesperson said the planting is part of work restoring the health of the rivulet, removing environmental weeds and replacing them with local native plant species.
“Trees provide shade and stabilise the rivulet bank, while new riparian plants will provide habitat complexity for waterbugs, an important food source for foraging platypus,” the spokesperson said.
“In just one year alone Bushcare volunteers carried out environmental restoration works worth more than $120 000, helping the City of Hobart rid its bushland parks and reserves of environmental weeds, restoring threatened native grasslands on the Queens Domain and restoring degraded bushland and wildlife habitat.”
Organiser John James said the team were planting a variety of plants, including blackwoods, silver wattles and understory plants.
“They provide firstly shade along the rivulet so that there’s not so much algae growing up. They hold the soil along the riverbanks,” he said.
“Tassie is known for being such a clean, green state so the more trees we put in I think the better it is.”
