This planting assisted to preserve and protect the biodiversity of Porter’s Creek Wetland, considered the most important wetland on the Central Coast. Greater Bank donated 3,150 trees!
As the largest freshwater wetland in the Central Coast region, Porter’s Creeks is valuable for drinking water, flood mitigation, biodiversity and health of the Tuggerah Lakes. It is located north-west of the Wyong urban area and extends into the surrounding Melaleuca and Eucalypt swamp forests. The wetlands are comprised of a mixture of reed lands, sedge lands and rushlands in areas of more permanent water inundation.
Planting date: May 26th, 2021.
Millions of plants and animals that can cope with the wet and the dry times live in this basin and form the wetland which provides habitat for:
The wetland is also known to contain numerous threatened species and endangered ecological communities along with rare swamp forests. There are more than:
