We are proud to release the official AELERT-INECE 2024 Global Summit for Implementing and Enforcing Environmental Law logo design today. The event logo features the Moreton Bay fig tree (Ficus macrophylla) native to Australia’s east coast and Lord Howe Island.
Moreton Bay fig are impressive trees, iconic for their bold, interwoven buttressing roots that rise from the ground to form a strong trunk, resilient and full of integrity. Its expansive branches reach into a vast and thick canopy that supports life from its crown to the tip of its leaves.
This majestic tree represents the purpose of this Summit and the operating environment of a regulator.
- Grounded to mother earth, the Moreton Bay fig’s bold buttress roots represents and inter-linked set of different regulatory functions.
- Its trunk represents how these functions come together to form a whole system of integrity and strength.
- Its branches and crown represent the environment we create, the life we protect and benefit we deliver to all.
Like the Moreton Bay fig, benefits are realised when all the parts of the system come together and operate as one.
We all have a role to play to build and maintain a strong regulatory system to protect our environment and the life it supports for generations to come.
Learn more about the upcoming AELERT-INECE 2024 Global Summit coming to Brisbane from November 6-8, download the program and secure your place now!
More about the Moreton Bay fig
The Moreton Bay Fig Tree (Ficus macrophylla) is native to eastern Australia from the Wide Bay–Burnett region on the coast of Queensland approx. 170km north of Brisbane to the Illawarra region in Southeast New South Wales, plus Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.
- The Moreton Bay Fig grows to heights of over 60 metres with great spanning canopies supported by a strong, thick trunk and an intricate network of buttressing roots that provide stability to its great reach and also intertwine and support other trees around it.
- The roots may intertwine with buttress roots from other trees and create an intricate mesh, which may help support trees surrounding it.
- The Moreton Bay Fig has a symbiotic relationship with its environment, particularly with Pleistodontes froggatti fig wasps who pollinates its figs and provide a home in its flowers where the wasps can reproduce. In turn, the figs feed many species of native birds, including pigeons, parrots, and various passerines.
