Welcome to Treehugger land

The treehugger block is located in Litchfield shire in the Top End of Australia (see outline in image right).

The shire itself is one of the most bio-diverse areas in the country; a report in 2005 revealed it is home to more biodiversity than in the Greater Blue Mountains Area of New South Wales (A Guide to Threatened, Near Threatened and Data Deficient Plants in the Litchfield Shire of the Northern Territory, Holmes et al, 2005). Despite this abundance of flora and fauna the local council has a very dim view of environmentalism and an atrocious record in terms of appropriate develoment.

Being tropical the area is subject to seasonal innudation ie in the wet season the rivers and creek break their banks and flooding occurs.

A strategic area

With a creek running through it, two billabongs and a river at the rear the treehugger block gets wet during rainy season but flooding tends to be short-lived due to the tidal influences. Our initial research revealed that the block is part of a continguous nature corridor; by restoring the land we increase this size of this corridor and ensure wildlife safe passage.

At the start of our project we were fortunate to meet Red who was studying land management qualifiaction and who offered to do an indepth report into the land.

This report proved invaluable and also revealed another important feature: it is the focal point for the convergence of three distinctive types of vegetation: open woodland; tropical vine forest and mangrove.