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53 projects across the Northern Rivers.
Byron 15
Byron Clay Heath Restoration Program Active
This project is restoring the endangered Byron Bay Dwarf Graminoid Clay Heathland and habitat for a range of threatened flora and fauna. Commencing in 2007, it is one of the longest-running ecological burn programs in the region, involving over 12 ecological burns across a range of tenures. The Byron Clay Heath has been the focus numerous workshops on the importance of restoring Good Fire. This project is guided by Fire Restoration Plans for each tenure.
Led by NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, Byron Shire Council, Crown Lands
Partners NSW Fire & Rescue
Good Fire Professional Development Training Active
Restoring Open Ecosystems with Ecological & Cultural Fire program provides professional development for land managers, biodiversity officers and ecological consultants. It combines fire ecology, Aboriginal cultural knowledge, restoration planning and field-based learning to build practical capacity for Good Fire in the Northern Rivers. The program includes cultural burn activities and aims to improve biodiversity, connection to Country and bushfire resilience.
Led by Zero Emissions Byron
Partners Jagun Alliance, Madhima Gulgan
Good Fire Restoration - Araluen Active
An ecological burn program on private land at the Araluen property in Upper Main Arm. The project aims to protect and conserve ecological, cultural, and carbon-sequestration values by restoring appropriate fire regimes that maintain open-ecosystem habitat structure and reduce the risk of unplanned wildfires. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Private landowner
Partners Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance, Zero Emissions Byron
Good Fire Restoration - Broken Head Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on private land is currently being implemented at the Broken Head Conservation Area (Biodiversity Conservation Trust). The property contains a diversity of fire-dependent forests, including old-growth heathy dry open forest, ferny wet open forest and forested wetlands. The project aims to restore open forest biodiversity, reduce wildfire risks, and revive Aboriginal cultural practices while protecting high environmental value vegetation such as old-growth forests and threatened species habitat. The property has hosted a demonstration burn and a community workshop. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Private landowner
Partners NSW Rural Fire Service, Biodiversity Conservation Trust, Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Wildsite Ecological Services
Good Fire Restoration - Koonyum Range Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on private land is underway on a 55-hectare property known as 'Aquila' in the Koonyum Range. The property contains heathy dry open forest and ferny wet open forests. The project aims to restore appropriate fire regimes to maintain open-ecosystem habitat structure, reduce unplanned wildfire risks, and engage Aboriginal people in maintaining their cultural practices. The property has hosted several demonstration burns and community workshops. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Partners Zero Emissions Byron
Good Fire Restoration - SkyNest Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on private land in elevated Eucalypt forests to above Wilsons Creek. The project aims to protect ecological, cultural, and carbon-sequestration values by utilizing planned burns to improve open-ecosystem habitats and minimize the threat of severe wildfires. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Partners Zero Emissions Byron
Good Fire Restoration - Tyagarah Planning
An ecological and cultural burn program on private land is currently underway across 66 hectares of heathland, dry open forest and forested wetlands along Simpsons Creek to the south of Brunswick Heads, NSW. The project aims to restore beneficial fire to the landscape to conserve biodiversity, particularly within its significant heathland and swamp sclerophyll forests, while enabling Traditional Custodians to reconnect with and care for Country. The property has hosted demonstration burns and a community workshop. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Partners Zero Emissions Byron
Good Fire Restoration - Woodlands Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on private land across open forests on the Woodlands Community in Byron Bay. The property includes old-growth heathy Blackbutt forest and related open forest types as well as forested wetlands. The program focuses on restoring appropriate fire regimes to conserve biodiversity, improve open-ecosystem habitat structure, and engage Aboriginal people in cultural fire practices. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Partners Zero Emissions Byron
Good Fire Workshop - Broken Head Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Byron Shire Council
Partners Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Gondwana Community Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Brunswick Valley Landcare
Good Fire Workshop - Koonyum Range Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Zero Emissions Byron
Partners Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Wilsons Creek Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Zero Emissions Byron
Partners Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Woodlands Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Zero Emissions Byron
Partners Jagun Alliance
Nightcap Grassy Forest Project Planning
An ecological burn program across 60 hectares of grassy open forest within Nightcap National Park and Whian Whian State Conservation Area. The project aims to restore and maintain appropriate fire regimes to conserve biodiversity and floristic diversity within the grassy ground-layer of these open forest communities while reducing the risk of severe wildfire. The program also aims to protect adjacent fire-sensitive ecological values, such as Gondwana World Heritage rainforests and threatened species like the critically endangered Nightcap Oak.
Led by NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
Open Ecosystem Restoration Priorities: Byron Shire LGA Planning
Report and mapping that identify and prioritise open ecosystem areas suitable for the restoration of historical fire regimes. Prioritisation used a conservation triage approach, prioritising areas in good condition and requiring minimal intervention over highly degraded areas requiring complex interventions. The mapping will help Council plan, prioritise and seek funding for multi-property ecological fire-restoration projects across private and Council-managed land throughout Byron Shire.
Led by Byron Shire Council
Lismore 13
Dorrobee Grasslands Reserve Project Active
The Dorrobee Grass Reserve Project uses carefully planned cultural and ecological burns to restore and maintain a rare remnant of fire-dependent Kangaroo Grass grassland and surrounding grassy woodlands. The program combines cool burning, weed control and ongoing monitoring to limit woody encroachment, stimulate native grass regeneration and strengthen Aboriginal cultural connection and land-management practice. The Reserve has hosted several demonstration burns and community workshops.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Partners Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council, Firesticks Alliance, Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Southern Cross University, NSW Rural Fire Service
Dry Open Forest Action Plan: Upper Tuntable Falls Road, Nimbin Active
A restoration action plan dry open forest affected by the 2019–20 bushfires following declined from around 50 years of fire exclusion. It uses rapid site assessment, current fire-ecology research and Indigenous burning knowledge to identify how the recent fires can be used as an opportunity to halt further ecological decline. The plan focuses on restoring appropriate forest structure, controlling transformer weeds, and re-establishing suitable fire regimes to protect the property’s biodiversity values.
Led by Richmond Landcare
Partners Lismore City Council
Ecological Restoration and Fire Plan - Bodhi Farm Active
A restoration plan for the restoration of both open and closed forests affected by the 2019–20 bushfires. The plan identifies how the recent fires can be used as an opportunity to halt further ecological decline in dry open forests and grassy wet open forests which had previously been declining following around 50 years of fire exclusion. In these forest types plan focuses on restoring appropriate forest structure, controlling transformer weeds, and re-establishing suitable fire regimes to protect the property’s biodiversity values.
Led by Richmond Landcare
Partners Lismore City Council
Ecological Restoration and Fire Plan - Terania Creek Active
A restoration plan for the restoration of both open and closed forests affected by the 2019–20 bushfires. The plan identifies how the recent fires can be used as an opportunity to halt further ecological decline in dry open forests and grassy wet open forests which had previously been declining following around 50 years of fire exclusion. In these forest types plan focuses on restoring appropriate forest structure, controlling transformer weeds, and re-establishing suitable fire regimes to protect the property’s biodiversity values.
Led by Richmond Landcare
Partners Lismore City Council
Ecological Restoration and Fire Plan - Tuntable Creek Active
A restoration plan for the restoration of both open and closed forests affected by the 2019–20 bushfires. The plan identifies how the recent fires can be used as an opportunity to halt further ecological decline in dry open forests and grassy wet open forests which had previously been declining following around 50 years of fire exclusion. In these forest types plan focuses on restoring appropriate forest structure, controlling transformer weeds, and re-establishing suitable fire regimes to protect the property’s biodiversity values.
Led by Richmond Landcare
Partners Lismore City Council
Good Fire Restoration - Billen Cliffs Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on a community is being implemented across dry and wet open forest at the Billen Cliffs Village in Larnook, NSW. The program aims to maintain and improve open-ecosystem habitat, minimize wildfire impacts through planned burns, and protect the property's ecological, cultural, and carbon-sequestration values. The property has hosted demonstration burns and a community workshops. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Restoration - Larnook Active
An ecological burn program on private land on the upper slopes and ridges adjoining Bungabee State Forest. The project aims to restore and maintain grassy open forest which are becoming increasing rare in the region. The property has hosted demonstration burns and community workshops.
Led by Private landowner
Partners Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Restoration - MacKellar Range Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on the Mackellar Range Community to reinstate historical fire regimes. The project aims to maintain grassy open forest health and function, and to reduce the risk of catastrophic bushfires. The property has hosted a demonstration burn and a community workshop. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Billen Cliffs Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. Workshop combined cultural fire knowledge, ecological science and a demonstration burn, while explaining how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Jiggi Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium
Good Fire Workshop - Larnook Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Partners Lismore City Council, NSW Rural Fire Service
Good Fire Workshop - Nimbin Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium
Good Fire Workshop - Terania Creek Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Richmond Landcare
Partners Lismore City Council
Kyogle 9
Caring on Country with Githabul Rangers Active
An Indigenous-led natural resource management partnership using traditional cultural burning practices alongside tree-planting to restore koala food trees and protect natural and cultural sites across roughly 110,000 hectares of Githabul Country in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. By blending traditional knowledge with contemporary land management and partnering with local property owners, the initiative aims to regenerate habitat and support koala recovery while strengthening cultural connection to Country.
Led by Githabul Rangers
Partners World Wildlife Fund
Cultural Fire - Flat Camp Active
This program aims to restore cultural fire and cultural and biodiversity values to the Flat Camp Aboriginal area. The burn program enables traditional custodians to practise and pass down cultural fire knowledge and land management practices on country.
Led by NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, Ngulingah Jugun Aboriginal Corporation
Eastern Bristlebird Project Active
The Eastern Bristlebird Project is restoring grassy open forests across the Border Ranges landscape, including the Border Ranges National Park, adjoining private properties, and Aboriginal-owned land. Works have included ecological and cultural burning, weed control and native-grass restoration to prevent woody thickening and maintain the open tussock-grass structure required by this species. The Eastern Bristlebird has been the focus numerous workshops on the importance of restoring Good Fire.
Led by NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
Partners Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Gugin Gudduba Local Aboriginal Land Council, Jagun Alliance, Githabul Rangers, North Coast Local Land Services, private landowners.
Good Fire Restoration - Gesar Springs Active
An ecological burn program on private land is being implemented across open Eucalypt forests at the Gesar Springs Community at Collins Creek on the footslopes of the Border Ranges. The property contains extensive areas of grassy open forest. The project aims to maintain and improve open-ecosystem habitat structure, minimise unplanned wildfire impacts, and engage Aboriginal people to maintain cultural practices while conserving the property's significant ecological and cultural values. The property has hosted demonstration burns and a community workshop. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Collins Creek Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by A Lush Forest Media
Good Fire Workshop - Gesar Springs Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge, ecological science and a demonstration burn, while explaining how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Kyogle Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge, ecological science and a demonstration burn, while explaining how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Managing BMAD in Toonumbar Completed
Restoration project to prevent Bell Miner Associated Dieback (BMAD) in grassy open forests through restoring frequent fire, bush regeneration, and community capacity building.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium
Roseberry Creek Habitat Restoration Active
An ecological burn program on private lands in the Roseberry Creek area to restore Koala habitat under the NSW Koala Strategy.
Led by Department of Planning, Industry & Environment
Richmond Valley 7
Busby's Flat TSR Restoration Completed
Restoration works and cultural burns within the 112-hectare Casino Boolangle LALC property at Busby's Flat and the adjacent Travelling Stock Reserve.
Led by North Coast Local Land Services, Casino Boolangle Local Aboriginal Land Council Inc.
Partners Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium
Connecting Country: Managing Aboriginal Lands in the Upper Bungawalbin Completed
Ecological restoration on Aboriginal lands in the Upper Bungawalbin catchment.
Led by Casino Boolangle Local Aboriginal Land Council Inc.
Partners Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Firesticks Alliance.
Cultural Fire - Minyumai IPA Active
A cultural fire program in the Minyumai (a Bandjalang word for main camp, a big camp) IPA, a 2000 ha property bordering the Bundjalung National Park and Tabbimoble Swamp Nature Reserves, south of Evans Head. The project aims to protect life, property, cultural values and biodiversity from severe bushfires by involving the Minyumai Rangers in cultural burning regimes that combine Indigenous ecological knowledge with modern ecological science and fire safety training. By applying the right patterns of burning and fostering partnerships with organizations like Jagun Alliance and the Rural Fire Service, the strategy seeks to conserve the property's threatened species and habitats while enabling the Bandjalang people to maintain their deep relationship with the land and their culture.
Led by Minyumai Land Holding Aboriginal Corporation
Partners Jagun Alliance, NSW Rural Fire Service
Ecological Fire Management - Mongo Valley Wildlife Sanctuary Active
An ecological burn program is currently underway across the 1,260-hectare Mongo Valley Wildlife Sanctuary. The project involves implementing strategic, ecological burns across dry and wet sclerophyll forests, riparian zones, and native grasslands to create a healthy mosaic of burnt and unburnt areas. The project aims to reduce the risk of unplanned fires and manage invasive weeds while encouraging the regeneration of fire-adapted plants, which protects and maintains diverse habitats for the region's rich fauna, including threatened species like the Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby and Kate's Leaf-tailed Gecko.
Led by Australian Wildlife Conservancy
Approximate location — mapped to the locality only. The precise site location is not published.
Good Fire Restoration - Kippenduff Active
An ecological and cultural burn program initiated by a private landowner with recent support from Jagun Alliance and Border Ranges Richmond Valley Landcare.
Led by Private landowner
Partners Jagun Alliance, Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Border Ranges Richmond Valley Landcare.
Good Fire Restoration - Korinderie Ridge Active
An ecological and cultural burn program on private land is actively managing dry and wet open forest at the Korinderie Ridge Community located at The Gap, NSW. The initiative aims to protect ecological and cultural values, improve open-ecosystem habitat function, and reduce the impacts of unplanned wildfires through the reinstatement of healthy fire regimes. The property has hosted demonstration burns and a community workshop. This project is guided by a Good Fire Restoration Plan.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium, Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Korinderie Ridge Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge, ecological science and a demonstration burn, while explaining how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Tweed 6
Good Fire Workshop - Fingal Head Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Partners Tweed Byron Local Aboriginal Land Council
Good Fire Workshop - Uki Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Hazard Reduction Burn Guidelines For Koala Habitat on the Tweed Coast Active
A landscape-scale ecological burn plan and set of operational guidelines are being utilized across koala habitats in the Southern Tweed Coast Koala Management Area, which features wet and dry open forests, heathlands, sedgelands, and forested wetlands. The project aims to guide land managers in safely applying hazard reduction burns that maintain the natural ecological role of fire while strictly avoiding harm to individual koalas and their canopy food resources. Key values emphasize minimizing koala mortality, protecting Aboriginal cultural heritage sites, avoiding the ignition of vulnerable peat soils, and maintaining the appropriate soil environment for koala feed trees
Led by Tweed Shire Council
Kings Forest Fire Management Plan Active
An ecological burn plan for the Environmental Management Areas of the Kings Forest residential estate to safeguard koala populations and restore koala habitats and adjoining heathlands and freshwater wetlands. The project aims to reduce the risk of catastrophic bushfires and destructive peat fires while maintaining the overall health, function, and structure of koala habitat. Key strategies include protecting koalas from fire-related mortality, coordinating burns with active revegetation efforts, and preventing the displacement of fire-dependent habitats by rainforest transition.
Led by Tweed Shire Council
Partners NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
Restoring Koala Habitat in the Pottsville Wetland Active
An ecological burn program across 15 hectares of the Pottsville Environmental Park on the Tweed Coast. The program aims to reduce the fuel hazard and the risk of destructive wildfire, as well as maintain the ecological process of fire crucial to the health and function of existing vegetation communities and threatened species habitat.
Led by Tweed Shire Council
Tweed Coast Koala Fire Management Plan Active
A landscape-scale ecological burn plan for approximately 12,800-hectare of the Tweed Coast Koala Management Area, encompassing diverse open forest and forested wetlands. The project aims to ensure a coordinated approach restore ecologically appropriate fire regimes to koala habitat while minimising bushfire risk to human life and property. Key strategies include reversing long-term koala habitat decline caused by fire exclusion, reducing the threat of high-intensity bushfires and peat fires, and promoting cooperative fire management across tenures.
Led by Tweed Shire Council
Ballina 3
Ballina Koala Fire Management Plan Active
A landscape-scale ecological burn plan for the restoration of appropriate fire regimes in Koala habitat across Ballina Shire. The project aims to protect and conserve the local koala population and associated biodiversity values through the restoration and maintenance of appropriate fire regimes. Key strategies include minimising the threat of unplanned wildfires and peat fires, maintaining healthy koala food resources, and protecting fire-sensitive ecosystems and human life.
Led by Ballina Shire Council
Good Fire Workshop - Bagotville Completed
Community workshop aimed to bring cultural knowledge holders, ecological practitioners and landowners together to strengthen relationships with Country and improve resilience to bushfire and other natural hazards. The workshop combined cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways.
Led by Jagun Alliance
Good Fire Workshop - Meerschaum Vale Completed
Community workshop combining cultural fire knowledge and ecological science to explain how appropriate fire can restore open forest structure, habitat and culturally important pathways, and improve resilience to bushfire.
Led by Northern Rivers Fire and Biodiversity Consortium