Restoring Littoral Rainforests
Lake Tyers is home to critically endangered littoral rainforest, also known as coastal vine thicket.
Connectivity and control of landscape altering weeds, like cape ivy, are key actions to keep remaining stands of rainforest along our shorelines healthy.
What is a littoral rainforest?
The littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia is a critically endangered ecological community listed under the Australian Government’s EPBC Act. The ecological community provides habitat for over 70 threatened plants and animals and it provides an important buffer to coastal erosion and wind damage.
Littoral rainforest and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia typically occurs close to the coast from northern Queensland southwards to eastern Victoria and on offshore islands. It occurs as a series of naturally disjunct and localised stands, on a range of landforms that have been influenced by coastal processes including dunes and flats, headlands and sea-cliffs.
The appearance of this ecological community and its plant species can vary greatly depending on location, but it appears as a complex of rainforest and vine thickets. The vegetation generally is structurally diverse, with native trees, shrubs, vines and ground layers all potentially being present. The vegetation typically has a closed canopy.
