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In 2007, nearly 700 ISV participants were involved in 81 various conservation projects, based in remote, rural and coastal areas across Australia. ISV worked with the following Australian organizations:

• Conservation Volunteers Australia (Various locations)
• Department of Sustainability and Environment – DSE (Victoria)
• Phillip Island Nature Park (Victoria)
• Tasmanian Land Conservancy (Tasmania)
• Wimmera Catchment Management Authority (Victoria)
• The Crossing Land Education Centre (New South Wales)
• Mount Tomah Botanical Garden (New South Wales)
• Australian Ecosystems Foundation – AEFI (New South Wales)
• Wild Mountains Trust (Northern New South Wales - bordering Queensland)
• Walkabout Wildlife Park (New South Wales)
• Koonamore Research Station (South Australia)
• Australian Landscape Trust – ALT (South Australia)
• Banrock Station (South Australia)
• Youth Enterprise Trust (Queensland)
• Brooklyn Sanctuary, Australian Wildlife Conservancy (Queensland)
• AUSTROP, Tropical Research Foundation (Queensland, Cape Tribulation)

The volunteer projects included: native flora and fauna surveys, including koala counting and planting of koala food with DSE and The Crossing, monitoring Orange Bellied Parrots with DSE, construction of penguin boxes at Phillip Island, feral proof fencing at Brooklyn, irrigation system maintenance and biological surveys at ALT, education flying fox program and solar panel erections at AUSTROP, maintaining and feeding native animal enclosures at AEFI and Walkabout, bat and bird box installation and spotlight transects to monitor native animals at Banrock, construction of environmental educational trails at Mt Tomah, Tree planting with Tasmanian Land Conservancy, construction of accommodation for outdoor education programs at Wild Mountains and YET, biological surveys with Koonamore Research Station in remote areas and a wide diverse range of projects including all of the above with Conservation Volunteers Australia. Every project does also involve habitat restoration related tasks such as tree planting and weed removal, which has been and is a major issue in Australia since European settlement over 200 years ago. Many local communities both indigenous and non indigenous also benefited from the work of ISV groups.

Tasks accomplished across every project by ISV volunteer groups in Australia this year are:

• Weeding: 348,225m²
• Planting: 44,721
• Seed collected: 18kg
• Fencing: 9,046m
• Revegetation coverage: 151530m²
• Research: See details below
• Construction: See below
• Community: See below
• Rubbish: 6,292kg
• Track clearing and maintenance: 14, 700m

Note: this does not include data from 11 projects with DSE, 5 projects with Walkabout and 2 with AUSTROP.

Research

• 2560 soil samples were collected and the quality including Ph levels of soil was recorded
• Two ISV groups researched climate change and current related issues for an education program which they both planned and implemented for a local community and school project
• 3 large scale Koala and potoroo surveys were completed
• Two ISV teams mapped large reserves for rabbit activity
• Tree health surveys were conducted

Construction

• 6 benches varnished
• 2 benches dismantled
• 9 signs erected and painted
• 100m² garden bed developed
• 20m² of soil moved and leveled
• 300 pavers layed
• 15m² pathway graveled
• 1.5km of irrigation pipe removed and new pipe installed
• Chipped 60m2 dock
• 800m dripper irrigation systems installed
• 15 big holes in arid environment prepped and dug for future large scale native tree planting
• Completed 2 activity tracks for a school outdoor education program
• Finalized work on 2 existing A frame plus major construction on 3rd for outdoor education camp accommodation
• Painting of main hall
• Helped with large scale collection of recycled timber for building on site
• Bat box installation
• Created and completed Tasmanian Devil enclosure, including 40m trench backfilled
• Old signs removed from education trail
• Developed and constructed Casuarina Research Station
• Major redevelopment of camp sites
• Constructed rabbit proof fence
• Built penguin boxes

Indigenous Community — Central Australia

• Painted basket ball court
• Litter clean up as part of local community project
• Painted bush toilets, shelter shed and 2 picnic tables
• Cleaning and organization of medical supplies in medical clinic
• Cleaning of houses for three families who had experienced a death and in Aboriginal Australia, this results in the families moving from their old homes into newly constructed places as part of their culture
• Worked in community arts centre, doing paper mache with local women who would then carry out and do traditional painting on paper mache pieces
• Delivering of toilet paper

Other

• Collated and folded activity booklets for school programs
• General animal husbandary and wildlife sanctuary maintenance
• 160 trees mulched
• 16 cubic meters of green waste collected
• Three radio interviews
• 5 ISV teams received coverage on TV and news channels
• 10 articles were written in local papers
• Surveyed native wildlife
• 756 plants propagated
• 1 community forum for climate change
• Facilitated and presented 10 information sessions with school groups on climate change
• 250m² of mulch completed
• Stream and water monitoring
• Installed penguin boxes into degraded habitat