Bellingen Shire Council aspires to ‘work together to protect and enhance our environment’ and ‘protect and enhance our biodiversity’. As a delivery partner for the Jaliigirr C4 project since 2012, Council has worked with local contractors, private landholders and Crown Lands, to rehabilitate 66 hectares of priority vegetation corridors in Dorrigo, Bellingen, Hydes Creek, Fernmount and Urunga. Council has implemented weed control, tree planting, direct seeding and stock fencing to encourage bush regeneration in significant conservation areas including:
- priority koala habitat corridors in North Bellingen and Hyde’s Creek
- remnant riparian vegetation adjacent to the Bellinger River Estuary
- Antarctic Beech Cool Temperate Rainforest at Dangar Falls
- Giant Barred Frog (endangered) habitat at Ringwood Creek in North Bellingen
- land adjoining World Heritage Gondwana Rainforest in Dorrigo National Park and,
- Endangered Ecological Ecosystems surrounding Urunga Lagoon including Coastal Saltmarsh and Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest.