Rotary Adopt a Tree Planting Canowindra
Sat, 23 Mar
|Canowindra
Enjoy a day where we will plant 500 native trees along the beautiful Belabula River on prepare grounds, stay overnight at Canowindra or Cowra and see the Central West attractions
Time & Location
23 Mar 2024, 8:30 am – 2:20 pm
Canowindra, Belubula Park, 510 Cranky Rock Road, Canowindra NSW 2804, Australia
Guests
About the event
Belubula Park is located on the Belubula River near Canowindra, about 4 hours west of Sydney and 2.5 hrs north of Canberra. This 400ha (960 acres) property has about 3.5km of river frontage, with ownership on both sides. There are two platypus dens (with platypus) in the river and many native animal species, including the threatened Superb Parrot.
Robin Aitken & Jonathan Sanders manage the property for their brother-in-law, Rick Arnheim, who bought it about two years ago. Jonathan is an ecologist and Robin an archaeologist and they have both have worked in the National Parks and Wildlife Service for most of their careers.
The property was quite run down and neglected when they arrived, with almost no ground cover due to overstocking and set stocking, especially during the three year drought up to early 2020. After the change of ownership, lower stocking numbers, rotational grazing and good rainfall over…