Dubbo Biodiversity

Work Charles Sturt has been doing

The one area totalling 8.6 hectares at Charles Sturt University Dubbo has been identified and mapped as an area of high conservation value. These Biodiversity Zones were formally ratified by the University in April 2017.

Charles Sturt University aims to undertake activities that:

  • increase the connectivity of vegetation corridors across the campus
  • rehabilitate highly disturbed sites
  • encourages partnerships with staff, students and external community groups including the Dubbo Field Naturalist and Conservation Society and the Dubbo Regional Council
  • noxious weed control.

What you can do in Dubbo

Get involved in active local works and community group such as:

Lead your own sustainability/biodiversity event on campus with the help of an onsite Student Representative and Clubs Officer.

Dubbo Biodiversity

The biodiversity report for the Dubbo Campus noted that the site was highly disturbed given its original life as a working farm, beginning in the 1820s.

While the campus is located on the fringes of an urbanised area, the report notes that there are significant areas of native grasslands and planted woodlots to the west of the campus. In addition, there is potential for a significant wildlife/biodiversity corridor in an ephemeral drainage line, which runs from the eastern side of the campus across to the planted woodlots and native grasslands on the western side of the campus.