Tweed River - Murwillumbah Riverbank Restoration Walk and Open-air Gallery

This project will protect, restore and improve natural assets along a 150 metre stretch of the Tweed River embankment at McIlrath Park. Professionals will help support the commununity and 60 volunteers to restore riverbank stability, ecosystem function, habitat connectivity, internationally significant species and ecological communities. Works include: planting 1,600 local subtropical lowland rainforest plants; weed control; rubbish removal; media releases on conservation of habitat, biodiversity and threatened species; planting days; and art events for youth and sharing of indigenous ecological knowledge. These will help create an open-air gallery that involves local youth in valuing rare and endemic local species of flora and fauna.