Toogimbie Indigenous Protected Area - fact sheet
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources, February 2007
© Commonwealth of Australia
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Toogimbie Station, located near the town of Hay, is a former pastoral property dating from the introduction of farming to the region in the late 1800s. Covering around 460 square kilometres, Toogimbie Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) is owned and managed by the Nari Nari Tribal Council.
IPA funded activities include improving wetland inundation, replanting vegetation, and controlling weeds and feral animals like foxes, rabbits and pigs. Areas that have been fenced to keep stock and feral animals out are showing improvements in the level of cover and in environmental health. The Tribal Council aims to continue timber harvesting using sustainable methods, for community use.
Overall revegetation works are another major IPA activity. In 2005 alone, 2.5 kilograms of local seed was collected, 8,500 seedlings were planted, 8,000 clay seed balls distributed and 4,000 plants propagated. The Tribal Council has also erected bird hides in the wetlands, and constructed a bush tucker garden to improve community access to native foods and medicinal plants.
The declaration of Toogimbie IPA in March 2004 was made under World Conservation Union (IUCN) Category IV - Habitat/Species Management Area: Protected Area managed mainly for conservation through management intervention.
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