AABR Bushfire Response:
Do you want to volunteer with AABR's post-fire wildlife habitat regeneration effort?

A form for volunteers offering to assist

AABR is Australia’s peak body of qualified and experienced bush regenerators, whether professional or volunteer.

We are calling on AABR members and supporters (including councils, businesses and other organisational members) to consider whether they might be able to contribute some time to the volunteer effort over the next 6-12 months.

There are many ways you can help, but we are particularly seeking people who can give of their expertise to inform under-supported land managers and private landholders in high priority fire-affected areas about post-fire weeding so that they can better secure recovery of faunal habitats.

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* 1. We will require your contact details to get in touch with you.

Name

Organisation (if applicable)

Site City/Town

Site State/Province

Site postcode

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 2. Please confirm you are happy for AABR to share your contact details to those we match you with who require assistance. We will put you in touch directly with them to continue discussions and finalise any agreements.

Yes, I am happy for you to share my contact details with those who I can assist

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* 3. Are you a trained and experienced regenerator willing to provide assistance to managers of a post-fire bushland site – or do you have other skills and wish to help in some other way? (Select any that apply)

Notifying AABR about the location of priority areas you know are in need of post-fire regeneration work (and contact details of the landowner if known).
Please email these suggestions any time to bushfire-response@aabr.org.au

Remotely providing information to a landholder

Travelling to sites to assess their potential for regeneration and convey this information to the landholder

Travelling to sites to assist the manager to provide initial guidance to volunteers

Assisting within a team as a volunteer bush regenerator

Assisting AABR with the development of educational materials

Assisting AABR with the dissemination of educational materials

Assisting AABR with coordination relating to this project

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* 4. Do you have AABR Accreditation?

Yes

In process

I have other relevant qualifications and experience

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* 5. What description best fits your bush regeneration experience?

I have no field experience in bush regeneration

My experience is confined to working on my own property

I have less than 2 years experience as a bush regenerator working under supervision

I have more than 2 years experience as a bush regenerator working under supervision

I am a qualified and experienced bush regenerator

Other relevant experience (describe)

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* 6. What skills do you have?

Plant identification

Weed removal techniques (manual*)

Weed removal techniques (chemical)

Erosion control

Seed collecting

Propagation

Planting, brush matting etc.

Monitoring (please describe type)

Other (please specify)

What happens next?

When we have a database of volunteers we can then match volunteers to those in need.
Only suitably trained and experienced bush regenerators will be matched to sites needing assistance.*

We will be prioritising high conservation sites whose managers have a capacity to provide the logistic support to the volunteers. In some cases these may be individual landholders while in others it may be organisations with whom AABR is collaborating (be it a local government, a state agency or an NRM group).

Once we have matched the volunteer to the recipient we will leave the parties to make their own arrangements.

*Upon registration we will contact you for details about what you feel you can offer.
If you want to guide landholders but are not already an AABR-accredited bush regenerator we will first need to validate your quals and experience.