The Pines is located on the lands of the Ngarigo people in southern New South Wales. This project is helping to create a vegetation and wildlife habitat corridor linking Kosciuszko National Park in the east with Woomargama National Park in the west. Greenfleet's restoration of the Pines is helping to fight the impacts of climate change as it grows.
Location & Map
The Pines is a 3-hour drive southwest of Canberra, near the town of Tumbarumba, NSW. The area sits on the western edge of the Snowy Mountains, with the highest peak, Mt Kosciuszko, visible in the south-east.
This project is close to nearby Jingellic, Bogandyera and Clarkes Hill Nature Reserves, where our plantings will complement the existing habitat, ensuring significant local flora and fauna values are conserved.
You can see where some of our other NSW projects are growing here.
Revegetation Approach & Species Selection
Since 2019, Greenfleet has been restoring this former pine plantation to native forest. We planted the area using tube stock, young plants that are bigger than seedlings, with some up to 15 cm tall. Our Revegetation Team selected nearly 30 different locally native species to create a biodiverse ecosystem.
Our focus on biodiversity is a strong one, as we understand the biodiverse forests are more resilient to extreme weather occurrences. This is paramount, as these weather disturbances are becoming more common, like the devastating 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires we experienced in Australia.
Other benefits to creating biodiverse forests include providing homes and food for native species, reducing space for invasive species and the ability to extend Endangered, Threatened, or Critically Endangered ecosystems.
Greenfleet has planted more than 23,300 trees across the 22 hectares at The Pines over successive years. After some sections of the initial plantings were fire impacted in the 2019-2020 bushfires, Greenfleet returned in 2021 to restore additional trees. Through this work, this ecological region is being bolstered and protected allowing the ecosystems to thrive.
Wildlife Habitat Restoration
The Pines project is acting as an important habitat stepping-stone for many native species, including marsupials, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and bats. The region is also host to several threatened species including the Yellow-Bellied Glider. These unique animals were listed as Vulnerable, due mainly from the reduction and destruction of habitat following the 2019–20 bushfires and continuing population decline due to land clearing, fragmentation and climate change.
Yellow-Bellied Gliders use tree hollows as their homes, and our property at The Pines has some remnant old-growth trees for this purpose. By legally protecting our forests for up to 100 years, Greenfleet is ensuring these trees can continue growing for generations to come and provide nesting opportunities for these and other species.
Greenfleet has also planted trees that serve as food sources for Yellow-Bellied Gliders, as well as Tiger Quolls, False Pipistrelles, Masked Owls and Emus, who will come to rely on the habitat restored at this site.
Climate Action
The forest growing at The Pines is legally protected for 100 years. Over that time, it will remove over 45,000 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere, which is the equivalent of what almost 10,500 average vehicles emit on Australia’s roads in a single year.
Location Size
22 hectares near Tumbarumba, NSW.
Planting Dates
2019, 2021
Species
- Eucalyptus globulus subsp. bicostata
- Eucalyptus goniocalyx
- Eucalyptus radiata spp robertsonii
- Eucalyptus rubida
- Eucalyptus dalrympleana
- Eucalyptus bridgesiania
- Eucalyptus delegatensis
- Eucalyptus dives
- Eucalyptus viminalis
- Eucalyptus camphora subsp. humeana
- Acacia dealbata
- Acacia doratoxylon
- Acacia melanoxylon
- Acacia rubida
- Acacia kettlewelliae
- Banksia Marginata
- Bursaria spinosa
- Cassinia arculeata
- Cassinia longifolia
- Grevillea victoriae subsp. nivalis
- Greveillea rosmainifolia
- Hakea microcarpa
- Daviesia latifolia
- Gynatrix pulchella
- Lomatia myricoides
- Dodonaea viscosa subsp. Angustissima
- Acacia ulcifolia subsp. Rubida
- Coprosma quadrifida
- Leptospermum continentale