Increased Biodiversity
Purpose: To enhance native biodiversity with help from Local Aboriginal Elders and help from the UoM Community. This intervention introduces more species to the site, and allows people and wild lives to enjoy a more diverse environment.
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Intervention
This intervention introduces more native species to the site, and allows people and wild lives to enjoy a more diverse environment of local flora and consequently, fauna.
Sensitive to Nature
The current green space towards the running track is under utilised with only the implementation of grass lawn. It is a BSUD strategy to enhance the existing green space with trees and understory vegetations (Ikin et al, 2015).
Who is involved?
Local Aboriginal Leaders/Representatives advisory/collaboration Biodiversity Representative - advisory/ collaboration Students - design/build/coordinate Staff - design/build/coordinate Local residents - design/build
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Corona Virus Response
Chalk and rope will be used as a temporary method of marking out individual spaces for exercise, ensuring appropriate distance between people. This will provide a vibrant and personal aesthetic, which allows the campus community the chance to engage in communal exercise whilst keeping each other safe.
How is it happening?
With help and guidance from Local Aboriginal Elders and their support in the knowledge of native species. We will also engage with the creators of The Living Pavilion at UoM, in order to orient our intervention to something feasible and that can last on campus.
Evaluation
Observation of the increase in biodiversity, both flora and fauna.
