Examples of a Combined regeneration/reintroduction Approach

As with all restoration, it is important to ask prior to the start of a project, 'what can be done to trigger any remaining recovery potential?' Sometimes that may be all that is needed to get the process up and running. But where some species need reinstatement due to the lower tolerance or resilience of those species to the degradation pressure, a Combined regeneration/reintroduction approach is applied

This approach involves both removal of the cause of the damage and active interventions to stimulate natural regeneration - but in addition can include degrees of translocation or reintroduction of biota through, for example, seeding or containerised planting of plant species or reintroduction of fauna. It can also apply to population reinforcements of species that may require increased genetic diversity.

Lessons and Limitations (See also Facilitated Regeneration)

• Reintroduction is often assumed to be needed when a species is not evident at a site, but decisions about reintroduction should be made only after testing assisted regeneration or having evidence that it is not likely to occur
• Reintroduction success is very strongly dependent on selecting the appropriate genetic material, informed by the appropriate reference ecosystem. Reintroduction will fail if the species is not the right one for that spot and it cannot move to a more suitable location.

Examples of Combined assisted regeneration and reintroductions

• Port Phillip Bay Oyster reef restoration, Victoria, Australia
• Project Eden, Western Australia
• Ned's Corner, Victoria, Australia
• Post-fire assisted regeneration at Scottsdale Reserve, NSW, Australia
• Regenerating and planting of rainforest buffers, NSW Australia
• Mulligans Flat, ACT Australia
• Booderie National Park, ACT Australia

Examples of Combined assisted regeneration/ reintroductions methodologies

• The tropical forest method of Assisted Natural Regeneration (ANR) also endorses ‘enhancement planting’ and so when that occurs, ANR can be categorised as a ‘combined regeneration/reintroduction’ approach.
• Similarly Applied nucleation can be categorised as an example of a ‘Combined regeneration/reintroduction’ approach
• Rewilding is also considered to follow a Combined regeneration/reintroduction approach.