More than 200 critically-endangered plants have been planted at North Rothbury as part of the NSW Government’s Saving Our Species program.
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The translocation event aims to boost population numbers of the Persoonia pauciflora, more commonly known as the North Rothbury Persoonia.
The North Rothbury Persoonia is an attractive bright green shrub with small yellow flowers and edible fruit. As the species recovers it will become a valuable food source for native bees, grazing animals and fruit eating birds.
Office of Environment and Heritage senior project officer Paul Hillier said there are only about 1000 remaining individuals of this species left in the wild – including about 200 plants from successful translocation events over the past two years.
“We are delighted to host another planting event this year to save this rare plant which is endemic to North Rothbury, with around 90 per cent of all known plants occurring on just four properties,” Mr Hillier said.
Local residents, representatives of the Wonnarua peoples and Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council, and staff from National Parks and Wildlife Services, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan and Office of Environment and Heritage took part in the tree planting on May 26 and 27.
As the translocation area is culturally sensitive, the OEH worked closely with the Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council who were on-hand to oversee the planting.
A number of plants were given away to local residents.
