Why use local plants?

Perhaps the best aspect of a natural resource officer's job is visiting the numerous sites that people are working across the local area, noting the environmental improvements as a result of onground activities and realizing the tremendous collective commitment that individuals are making to the preservation of the area's natural environment.

Mulch is good, mulch is great but beware the natives don't suffocate.

The best regeneration strategies for both flora and fauna are long term. This is not to say that we just accept the weeds on our sites because they are providing habitat or food source for native fauna, or preventing erosion, or maintaining continuous canopy cover in a wildlife corridor, or providing shade and shelter in an otherwise bare landscape.