The Wolli Creek valley consists of multiple habitats from open parks and waterways, to open scrubland and dense coachwood forest, providing homes for a vast variety of birds. An analysis of Wolli Creek Preservation Society bird survey data was...
The Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities (CRC WSC) has produced 13 factsheets to guide the repair or design of a living stream site on a flowing urban waterway. The site may be associated with a creek/stream channel,...
A Community-based survey: Knowledge and attitudes towards urban biodiversity of the residents and users of the Cooks River Corridor by Vasiliki Andrews and Linda Smith Final report for an Urban Ecology Project at the University of Technology Sydney, October...
Patterns of Debris Movement: From an Urban Estuary to a Coastal Embayment Article by Scott P. Wilson and Stephen J. Randall, Centre for Environmental Restoration and Stewardship Australian Catholic University, 2005 Article excerpt: “Beach or shoreline surveys are the...
Written by Doug Benson, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. About the Remnant In November 1992 I visited a very interesting remnant of native vegetation on the banks of the Cooks River at the end of Third Avenue, Campsie. The site...
Sydney Water remediated 1.1km of deteriorated concrete stormwater canal along the Cooks River to incorporate more natural bank features with sandstone blocks and native plants. The $8.6 million project included over 100,000 local native plants, creating new areas of...
A Sydney Water guide on how to carry out a stormwater audit on school grounds.
A brief tabled timeline of the history of the Cooks River from the 1830s – 2011.
NSW Government guideline (2013) for assessing estuary ecosystem health. These protocols provide a standardised approach to estuary ecosystem health monitoring, analysis and reporting in New South Wales. Access the document here: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/assessing-estuary-ecosystem-health-sampling-data-analysis-and-reporting-protocols-2013
Seagrass Monitoring is undertaken at Foreshore Beach by the Port Authority. Visit the website for more information and to read the monitoring report: https://www.portauthoritynsw.com.au/sustainability-and-environment/seagrass-monitoring-at-foreshore-beach/