VIC
A.W.N CAMERON
& J.G CAMERON &
J.V CAMERON &
N.G CAMERON
ASSOCIATED KILN
DRIERS PTY.
LIMITED
AUSTRALIAN
TRUST FOR
CONSERVATION
VOLUNTEERS
Restoration, promotion and protection of biodiversity around Glenbuckie
Creek
Revegetation, protection and enhancement of remnant vegetation at
Hopkins River
The Barwon River corridor biodiversity community champions project
Glenbuckie Creek is a permanent waterway on land recently purchased by Glenspean
Partners. This project, an area of 25ha, will complete a 4km,(110ha) wildlife corridor, encompassing 5 EVC (bioregional conservation status is endangered & vulnerable). Poor farm practises by previous owners have allowed the spread of pests and weeds, threatening native species and their habitat. Glenspean Partners will restore the biodiversity by removing and controlling pests, rectify erosion, protect remnant vegetation and re-vegetate other areas using regional provenance species. Stock exclusion zones, lanes, crossings and links to adjacent conservation areas, will also facilitate the restoration and promote biodiversity.
The project will revegetate eight hectares of river frontage and protect and enhance remnant river red gums along the Hopkins River near Hexham, Victoria.
It address the issues of native vegetation decline, loss of an endangered Ecological
Vegetation Class (EVC), fauna habitat loss and fragmentation, and impaired water and stream quality of the Hopkins River by restoring native vegetation along the river and permanently excluding domestic stock access.
It will assist in preventing further decline in the health of the remnant, centuries-old river red gums on the Hopkins River and encourage natural regeneration of this iconic
Australian species.
The Sparrowvale and Robertsons farms are located on the far eastern edge of the
Armstrong's Creek Urban Growth area. This area represents the final gap in the connected environment from Mt Bannon (the Geelong Ring road) to the West all the way to Barwon Heads and the ocean. The sites directly border Lake Connewarre, a listed
RAMSAR site, but after centuries of farming they are denuded and in need of intervention
3 68,700
3 63,500
3 158,000

Bass Coast
Landcare Network
Inc
Protecting and restoring Bass
Coast waterways and vital remnant vegetation
C.B ELLINGER &
K.R ELLINGER & R
ELLINGER & R.F
ELLINGER
CARDINIA
ENVIRONMENT
COALITION INC
CITOLA
RESOURCES PTY
LTD
Enhancement of
Swan Bay catchment:
Frederick Mason
Creek protection and re-veg
Increasing the resilience of
Bandicoot Corner to pest species incursions
Citola biodiverse wetland linkages and integrated farming reforestation project
This Project will address several issues including; water quality, erosion control, remnant vegetation loss and degradation, pest plant and animal control and improving farmers knowledge of best practice environmental management. We will address these issues through a targeted revegetation, remnant vegetation protection and enhancement program. We will target landholders through our existing networks utilizing our website and newsletter, we currently have 10 Landcare groups with over 900 members which represents more than 60% of the farming families in the Bass coast region. We will run 5 field days each per year which focus on current environmental issues that have been identified by the BCLN board including the carbon farming initiative
Unprotected waterways threaten the biodiversity and resilience of Swan Bay, a Ramsar site. The project will protect an extra 2.1ha of swampy land in a 175 Grassy Plain
Woodland adjacent to a vegetated riparian zone by replacing an old ineffective fence with a stock-proof one further from the creek. Indigenous species will be planted on the degraded grazing land. Remnant Eucalyptus camaldulensis will be protected, and 0.5ha of wetland restored. Zone A riparian vegetation will be enhanced by OtP_0175 understorey planting. The project will vegetate to a sustainable width, connect remnant stands, create a viable wildlife corridor, build capacity through educational briefings, and improve the quality of water flowing into Swan Bay.
Bandicoot Corner is a small reserve that has been established for the preservation of the
Southern Brown Bandicoot, (Isodon obesulus obesulus). It is a relatively intact area of remnant vegetation with significant biodiversity within a highly modified rural landscape.
Although the reserve is protected by predator fence; incursions by invasive species such as Red Fox, feral Cat, and European Rabbit still occur. Foxes and feral Cats prey on
Southern Brown Bandicoots; Rabbits are identified as a threat via habitat degradation.
This project will strengthen the perimeter fence as a barrier to pest incursions; monitor and remove reduce pest animal populations within the reserve.
To establish, manage and enhance biodiverse carbon stores by integrating a biodiverse reforestation program into a commercial farming property to improve ‘on-farm’ productivity while managing invasive species and enhancing the natural biodiversity of native wetlands. The project will expand neighbouring Ecological Vegetation Class (EVC) reserves through revegetation and habitat restoration providing corridors linking remnants to the Ramsar-listed Gippsland Lakes wetland. Project budget is $419,430 (inc
GST) over 3 years with in-kind contribution of $281,160 with commitment to manage/monitor the project for 10 years representing significant value for money in context of meeting application criteria and matching biodiversity fund themes.
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5 1,430,000
3 22,400
1 10,000
3 381,300

Connecting
Country (Mt
Alexander Region)
Inc.
CORANGAMITE
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Department of
Primary Industries
DEPARTMENT OF
SUSTAINABILITY
AND
ENVIRONMENT
Connecting landscapes across the Mount
Alexander region
Implementing cost effective revegetation and remnant protection by landholders
Revegetation and restoration works across the Loddon
Campaspe irrigation region
Managing fire to protect biodiversity, carbon and build resilient landscapes
Connecting Country (Mount Alexander region) Inc is a community-driven organization which aims to enhance and restore biodiversity across the Mount Alexander Region, leading to healthy agriculture and a sustainable community
(www.connectingcountry.org.au).
This region hosts many species and ecological communities that are under threat from historic, current and future human activities, including climate change. Our proposed project aims to achieving carbon storage and increased biodiversity resilience through revegetation, habitat protection and management, improving habitat connectivity, invasive species control and community education. It will also give local ecosystems and landholders greater capacity to adapt to climate change.
This project will use competitive allocation processes to directly fund landholders to implement a range of remnant protection and establish revegetation on their properties. This project will use the Victorian EnSym modelling platform combined with the FullCAM model (as used in the CFI approved Reforestation Modelling Tool, RMT) to quantify and explicitly report carbon, terrestrial, wetland, river and catchment outcomes, which enable the greatest environmental outcomes to be achieved at the lowest cost.
The methodology of competitive allocation, combined with scientific modelling (EnSym) has successfully been applied over the past 10 years in Victoria with 6 projects run in the
Corangamite Catchment valued at $6M.
Irrigation Modernisation across the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District has created significant change for the Loddon Campaspe Irrigation Region (LCIR). Extensive networks of irrigation channels throughout the landscape are being decommissioned and returned to terrestrial systems. Landholders are upgrading their whole farm plans in line with modernisation and redesigning their irrigation layouts. A significant opportunity exists at the whole farm planning stage to plan and implement biodiverse plantings and protect existing native vegetation across a fragmented landscape. 88% of the regions native vegetation has previously been cleared or highly modified.
This project addresses Theme 2 by building the capacity of a government agency
(Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment, DSE) to protect biodiversity and enhance carbon storage using adaptive fire management. Small changes to fire management can have major impacts on both biodiversity (including invasive species) and carbon stores. This project will add value to an existing research program between the applicant (ARI) and DSE by including carbon measures in biodiversity assessments of native forest sites representing a broad range of fire regimes. These unique and comprehensive data will inform new fire practices that aim to protect forest biodiversity and enhance carbon stores.
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6 2,488,000
6 2,897,000
3 674,000
5 850,000

DESMOND
MICHAEL BAKER
DUNKELD
PASTORAL CO.
PTY. LTD.
EAST
MOORABOOL
LANDCARE GROUP
INC
F.A MURDOCH &
P.J MURDOCH
Protection and expansion of endangered grassy woodlands habitat
Protect and revegetate threatened communities on the Victorian
Volcanic Plain.
Control of invasive weeds and protection of native vegetation in Moorabool
River
Raakjlim:
Maintaining the northern buffer for Hattah Kulkyne
National Park
"Mooks Forest" is 30 hectares of endangered remnant Grassy Woodlands (EVC 175) vegetation - mid and under storey has been removed by grazing livestock. The project would create a flora and fauna reserve via:
1. Purchase "Mooks Forest" and permanently fence it off from livestock;
2. Re-establish a well functioning native ecosystem with biodiverse plantings of mid and under storey indigenous native plants;
3. Remove a boundary fence between 49 Mooks Lane, Creightons Creek and “Mooks
Forest to re-connect it to over 20 hectares of remnant forest and gully fenced off to livestock and revegetated with over 13,000 locally indigenous plants in 2001 and;
4. Implement an integrated pest management program to monitor and control feral pests and weeds.
This project seeks to protect and restore approximately 350Ha of threatened communities on the Victorian Volcanic Plain. It will involve the fencing, revegetation and removal from high production farming, of approximately 350Ha of the Critically
Endangered Plains Grassy Woodland EVC.
This project aims to impede and control the spread of two invasive weed species that are threatening the biodiversity values of the upper catchment of the Moorabool River.
Serrated tussock and gorse are increasingly becoming problem weeds in this region but currently both restricted to relatively small areas. Timely intervention could prevent these highly invasive species becoming a widespread threat to the biodiversity values of the region. The upper Moorabool catchment has a significant amount of Victorian
Volcanic Plains Grassland, a nationally endangered habitat type. Invasion of this habitat by serrated tussock or gorse would be seriously detrimental to the habitat condition of this vulnerable ecosystem.
Raakjlim is a 469ha property, managed entirely for conservation purposes and permanently protected by a conservation covenant. It is bounded by Hattah Kulkyne
National Park (HKNP) on three sides and forms a buffer strip 5km long and 1km wide protecting the park from invasive species and other threats from adjoining irrigated agriculture, as well as being an important biodiverse carbon store and habitat for threatened species. 239ha are currently under 5yr Victorian Bush Tender agreement which expires end 2013 (budget adjusted accordingly). This application goes beyond environmental stewardship and indeed Bush Tender requirements to manage and protect this landscape in its entirety, particularly weeds and total grazing pressure.
3 139,300
6 558,200
3 213,000
6 105,800
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FTLA - Northern
Yarra Landcare
Network
GEELONG
LANDCARE
NETWORK
GLENELG -
HOPKINS
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
GOULBURN
BROKEN
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
Protecting fireaffected biodiversity from invasive blackberry in the
Northern Yarra
Linking and bridging remnant grassy woodands to areas of high conservation
South West
Victoria biolinks:
Creating biodiverse carbon sinks
Providing indigenous seed for revegetation in the Goulburn
Broken catchment
Invasive blackberry is now thriving in the northern Yarra Ranges region following the
Black Saturday bushfires, benefitting from this major disturbance. The weed now threatens the regenerating native vegetation by smothering bushland and waterways. It also provides harbour for rabbits and foxes, further exacerbating the threat to recovering biodiversity.
The Northern Yarra Blackberry Action Group (part of the Northern Yarra Landcare
Network) runs a small program to assist landowners with their obligations to control blackberry on private land. This project will add a biodiversity focus to the existing program to more effectively address the harmful impacts of invasive blackberry on the region’s biodiversity.
The project will establish new large scale biodiversity plantings across the landscape to improve connectivity. Brisbane Ranges, You Yangs, Pt Phillip wetlands, Inverleigh Flora &
Fauna Reserve, Bannockburn Bush and Dogrock Sanctuary are important conservation sites. This project aims to enhance and build links that will bridge together these local, regional and state reserves.
The project will include the Mid Barwon and Lower Morabool River catchments and their waterways to further widen the landscapes links to provide alternate routes for wildlife movement. The project will engage 12 landholders with large scale sites who are already prepared to become part of major regional push to expand and join fragmented remnant landscapes.
The Glenelg Bioregion in South West Victoria is one of only 15 nationally recognised
‘Biodiversity Hotpots’ and is within Zone 1 of the Habitat 141 corridor. While there are large sections of high conservation value native vegetation secured through numerous parks and reserves, the vegetation is often fragmented, especially across private land.
This six year project will result in significant, cost-effective biodiversity gains through the creation of biodiverse carbon sinks. More specifically it will work with a range of regional partners in five 'Biolinks' to reconnect 680 ha of key habitat, improve the resilience of 1,108 ha of existing habitat and control pest plants and animals on 2,126 ha on both private and public land.
Creating functional biodiverse revegetation for landscape scale projects requires viable, high quality and sufficient quantity of indigenous seed which cannot always be sourced from wild populations. Therefore eight Indigenous Seed Production Areas (SPAs) will be established to meet this future demand. Seed collection from wild populations and increased capacity for tube stock production will complement the SPAs. This project will result in efficiencies in collection methods, improved quality and quantity of seed, better genetic health of seed supply, increase in direct seeding and tube stock and a greater diversity of species used in revegetation programs. This will maximise resilience and adaptability of revegetation to climate change.
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5 230,000
3 354,500
6 2,522,000
6 1,075,000

GOULBURN
BROKEN
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
J.B. HOUSTON &
SONS PTY. LTD.
Creating biodiverse carbon landscapes and linking key habitat elements
Bio-Connect:
Connect, protect
& enhance biodiversity through grazing techniques
In Victoria, where farms are relatively small, the approach of aggregating landowners within priority landscapes is the only way to achieve real landscape change in fragmented ecosystems, while also allowing farmers to participate in the carbon market. Through strategic direction and planning by the Goulburn Broken Catchment
Management Authority (GB CMA), private land managers will work together to deliver large-scale habitat protection, enhancement, connectivity and threat abatement outcomes. Planned and implemented at the landscape scale, this project will enhance biodiversity and increase resilience to climate change for at least 400,000 ha of fragmented rural and peri-urban landscapes in regional priority areas of the GBC.
The project connects 1000 hectares of existing managed projects between Mt Lawson
State Park and Burrowa National Park. Connectivity across the landscape will reduce the impact of invasive species enabling land managers to employ an innovative grazing management system to protect and enhance biodiversity. Cattle will be removed from native vegetation hill slopes to improved pastures. Goats will be used to target woody weeds and native grass cover will be maximised on hill slopes by rotation grazing sheep.
The bio-zone landscape is habitat for endangered Borrolong frog, Native Open Summer
Grass, Regent Honeyeater, Squirrel Glider and Quolls.
6 2,655,000
6 215,000
4 227,000 J.H HAGEN & J.J
HAGEN
LANG D S AND C A
Wetlandia' landscape restoration project
Protecting and restoring our volcanic plains barrier areas
We would like to revegetate 110ha of our property , changing land use from flood prone cropping and grazing land to a biodiverse planting project . Aiming for the re establishment of 83 ha of Riverine Plains Grassy Woodland and 27 ha Creekline Grassy
Woodland / Floodplain riparian Woodland. Direct Seeding with locally collected indigenous seed will be the main method used. Hand planting of bulokes and natural regeneration of grey box and river red gum will compliment the direct seeding .
Annual pasture weed management will be an issue with site preparation prior to direct seeding .This will management by a suitable herbicide timetable and strategic grazing.
I am endeavouring to restore our barrier country (volcanic rocky outcrops) that are unique to this part of Victoria and Australia This can be only successful by fencing off these areas and excluding all stock and replanting indigenous plants to these area's, plants that have been completely lost, through continuous years of grazing and other unsuitable farming practices . The Department of Sustainability and Environment have provided me with an EVC/ Bioregion Benchmark for suitable indigenous plants to this area. By replanting these species alongside the last two remaining natives to our area
(Tree Violet and Sweet Bursaria, we hope to once again create pockets similar to what would have been here Pre - European,
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6 60,000

MALLEE
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
MALLEE
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
MARTIN JOSEPH
BLAKE ESTATE
MERTON
LANDCARE INC
Trialling polymers to enhance direct seeding in the
Mallee
Connecting parks and private land on Murray River floodplain
Protection of old growth gum trees and supporting new growth forestry
Protection and revegetation of
Merton Creek and its tributaries
This project has been developed as a partnership between the Birchip Cropping Group
(BCG) and Mallee Catchment Management Authority (MCMA) to facilitate improvements in the connectivity and resilience of native vegetation. The costs and risks involved in undertaking revegetation works are often prohibitive, particularly in low rainfall areas such as the Victorian Mallee, where the success of revegetation can be low. This project seeks to address some of these barriers by assessing whether incorporating degradable polymers with mixed seed increases seed germination and survival rates in the Mallee, making revegetation more cost-effective. Four trial sites will be established to evaluate the efficacy of using such polymers in direct seeding.
This project will enhance the Natural reserve system through the establishment of conservation covenant and conservation agreements to ensure minimal grazing pressure through the removal of stock from 2000 ha of private farmland land adjacent to a new extension to Murray Sunset National Park. This will be supported by a coordinated approach of controlling invasive species (rabbits and pigs) across private and public lands, enhancing existing connectivity, undertaking re-vegetation on floodplains and wetlands, and controlling recreational pressures on native vegetation.
These works will be supported by funds from Parks Victoria and private land holders, and will compliment proposed Sustainable Diversion limit offsets projects at Wallpolla Is
A paddock on Bally Glunin Park known as the "North Timber" was sown to a cereal crop in 2010. Because of the extreme wet conditions the crop failed but a great many tree seeds germinated and I believe the area that would be put aside to support the growth of these trees would be well worth while. I would do this by creating approximately 15 secure clusters areas around individual old gum trees approximately 50 metres X 50 metres. Within each cluster area it is estimated current density is 5 per sq.m, cluster area is 2,500sq.m, so each cluster would protect 12,500 saplings by the 15 clusters equals 147,500 trees.
Merton Creek and its tributaries provide a corridor from the Strathbogie Ranges to the extensive Grey Box, Yellow Box, White Box grassy woodland in the Merton valley - linking the hills to the newly developed Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail reserve that has significant areas of high conservation value remnant vegetation. There is strong community support to fence and re-vegetate along the reaches of Merton Creek and the tributaries - Pickatooth, Hut and Menham Creeks. These riparian works will protect creek banks from stock access, reduce turbidity, stabilise erosion and improve in-stream habitat, providing important biolinks.
3 122,000
6 416,600
1 9,000
4 74,000
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MORNINGTON
PENINSULA AND
WESTERN PORT
BIOSPHERE
RESERVE
FOUNDATION LTD
NORTH CENTRAL
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
NORTH EAST
CATCHMENT
MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY
PARKS VICTORIA
Connect and improve habitat corridors to create a biodiverse resilient biosphere
Protecting, linking and enhancing priority remnants in the Kyneton woodlands
Exploring the links:
Carbon and biodiversity in
Victoria's North
East catchment
Restoring and reconnecting
Australia’s threatened woodlands in
Mallee Rangelands
Western Port Biosphere (a UNESCO-designated reserve) includes two large Ramsar wetlands and hundreds of small but key biodiversity reserves in a fragmented urban, peri-urban and rural coastal region of southeast Australia threatened by climate change and human population growth. Its vegetation types are under-represented in reserves nationally. It has many threatened vegetative communities and species protected by international, national, and state legislation. A multi-stakeholder Steering Committee will develop a new regional Biodiversity Action Plan, enhance key reserves, revegetate landscape gaps to establish habitat links, improve low cost integrated pest control, and provide and audit carbon storage with new enabling systems.
This landscape scale project, aims to protect, link and enhance nationally significant grassy woodland remnants NE of Kyneton, Vic. The focus is on ecological management and restoration using buffer fencing, facilitated regeneration and revegetation, targeted pest control and the development of 10 year landholder management agreements.
Education and awareness raising activities will support landholders to develop “bestpractice” approaches to native vegetation management. Works funded through this project will be undertaken on private land, with complementary works on public land funded by Macedon Ranges Shire. An INFFER assessment has been completed for this project which provides the logic behind the cost benefit analysis.
This pilot project aims to increase and improve biodiverse carbon stores in Victoria's
North East Catchment, through:
1.Protecting, and enhancing existing native vegetation that has high conservation values for biodiversity and carbon, by establishing 10 year management agreements with landholders;
2. Establishing biodiverse carbon plantings to increase the extent of native habitat and carbon storage in fragmented landscapes;
3. Build capability of native seed supplies to support the project, and enable future biodiverse carbon plantings;
4. Build capacity of private land managers to implement grazing management to protect and enhance carbon stores and biodiversity;
5. Manage threats to biodiversity by implementing pest plant management.
Despite their high environmental values, Victoria's Mallee parks and surrounding properties share a history of degradation from clearing, overgrazing and pest introductions. Park Management currently stalls further degradation, but with additional effort it is possible to reverse the decline and achieve large-scale, high carbon content revegetation in this nationally significant region. Mallee rangelands also have great potential to contribute to connectivity and to enhance biodiversity. Through private and public partnerships we will re-establish broad-acre biodiverse vegetation via planting and restoration, and protect this investment and associated high value (eg
Ramsar) sites from the impacts of rabbits, goats and other grazing pests.
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6 2,267,100
6 2,468,400
4 1,514,500
6 3,004,000

Port Phillip and
Westernport
Catchment
Management
Authority
Port Phillip and
Westernport
Catchment
Management
Authority
SEVEN SISTERS
VINEYARD PTY LTD
SOUTHERN
OTWAY
LANDCARE
NETWORK
Brisbane Ranges
National Park to
Werribee Gorge
State Park biolink
A verdant
Maribyrnong
Valley
Roadsides to ranges:
Baddaginnie biocorridor for biodiversity & profitability
Weed buffer for
Great Otway
National Park
Targeting the three main investment themes: biodiverse plantings, protecting and enhancing existing native vegetation and managing threats to biodiversity this project will create a nth/sth biolink of habitat from the Werribee Gorge to the Brisbane Ranges joining two high-quality, large parks via biodiverse planting in fragmented remnant areas. Landscape scale revegetation on private land will protect and sustain biodiversity and provide resilience to climate change. Control of invasive plants and animals to maintain the integrity of the remnant vegetation and protect new plantings will be undertaken. Partners : Council, Melb Water, Parks Vic, Conserv. Volunt. Aus., landcare & landholders. 1500+ Ha reveg. in region over past 10 years.
Targeting the three main investment themes: biodiverse plantings, protecting and enhancing existing native vegetation and managing threats to biodiversity this project will complement a comprehensive 2 year program recently instigated by the PPWCMA,
DSE Vision for Werribee Plains and multiple partners to undertake an integrated 2 year invasive species control program in the Maribyrnong River Valley. The biodiversity fund will provide an opportunity to revegetate those areas that have been controlled to protect against re-infestation through the new plantings out-competing invasive species.
Issues:
-Profitable farming and biodiversity activities are often unconnected activities;
-Biodiversity plantings are often unconnected and unmanaged deteriorating over time to become unrepresentative pest /weed refuges
We will create a sustainable farming landscape that integrates farming /conservation
/carbon farming into a bio-corridor that links Strathbogie Ranges upland forest to roadside bush.
This project will
-restore existing vegetation areas and plant new ones to connect all separate areas
-reserve some areas and remove pests & weeds
-develop an integrated Farm Bio-management Plan /Financial Plan using carbon credits
-establish an integrated farming /carbon farming /biodiversity management demonstration facility
Within the Great Otway National Park (GONP), five areas of high biodiversity areas have been identified. Parks Victoria and the Department of Sustainability and Environment established these biodiversity asset areas in an attempt to focus weed management in areas of high value. A suite of weeds threaten the largest of the asset areas by reducing the overall diversity of flora and changing the habitat. This project would aim to preserve these biodiversity values, protecting GONP by reducing the spread of priority weed across private and public land and into areas of high asset value.
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3 1,393,500
3 1,460,700
6 280,000
4 199,200

The trustee for
The Conservation
Ecology Trust
The Trustee for
Wattle Park
Mooralla Trust
UNIVERSITY OF
MELBOURNE
UPPER GOULBURN
LANDCARE
NETWORK
Restoring, reconnecting and building resilience in manna gum woodlands
Revegetation of creeks and protection of remnant native vegetation and wetlands
Managing the country's largest remnant of white box grassy woodland
Strath Creek landscape restoration and carbon project
Damp sands herb-rich woodland habitats (EVC3) dominated by Eucalyptus viminalis at
Cape Otway and across south western Victoria are key habitats for koalas.
This EVC is listed as vulnerable; rapid declines in tree health combined with a lack of recruitment in fragmented remnants are concerning. While popularly attributed to increasing densities of koalas, the cause is unknown and may be related to climate change, therefore over-browsing by koalas may be a symptom of declining tree health, rather than a primary cause.
This project aims to sequester carbon and build resilience in the EVC by increasing connectivity between remnants, improving the outcome of revegetation efforts and augmenting tree health and regeneration at Cape Otway.
Our primary production property sits to the West of the Grampians National park and adjoins State forest on the northern and western boundaries. We have creek lines and natural drainage lines that flow through the undulating property- some providing flows to the Wannon river and others providing flows through to the Glenelg river. Many parts of the creek line are eroded and damaged by stock. Our aim is to revegetate parts of the creek line, wetland and natural springs that are currently eroded and to also fence these waterways off from stock. We will also fence remnant vegetation and connect these areas to the waterways to provide connectivity to the State forest for wildlife and a protected passage through our property.
Comprising 150 ha of Low Rises Grassy Woodland and the largest remnant of White Box
Grassy Woodland in existence (120 ha), the Dookie Bushland Reserve is an area of unique national significance. It is located in Northern Victoria at The University of
Melbourne's Dookie Campus. This proposal puts forward a plan for (i) managing the most serious threats to the reserve (pest plants and animals), (ii) extend the reserve into an adjacent partially degraded remnant that is currently used for grazing (i.e., sacrifice this land purely for conservation), and (iii) making the reserve an educational resource for the future.
Strath Creek Landcare Group aim to build links of native vegetation across private land in a fragmented landscape in northern Victoria. Marginal agricultural land (primarily steep hills), as well as riparian habitat, will be transformed into a biodiversity asset, using revegetation, protection of high quality remnants, modified grazing systems and pest management. This project will create demonstration sites to facilitate community education about climate change and carbon farming. It will promote better integration of diverse farming methods to achieve biodiversity and natural resource management gains.
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3 304,300
3 34,700
6 106,000
3 239,000

WATHAURONG
ABORIGINAL CO-
OPERATIVE LTD
Broadacre grassland restoration on the
Werribee Plain
The Victorian government declaration to extend the urban growth boundary will lead to the destruction of the few remaining high value grassland sites within the Werribee plain (WP). These sites are used to source local province weed free themeda seed for restoration projects on the WP. This project aims to use multiple species from local province grasslands, to establish a secure and ongoing seed source for future WP restoration projects, whilst also improving connections between remnant native vegetation of the WP. The project will build the capacity of the Wathaurong people to manage their lands, through collaboration with grassland and broadacre experts and the development of new technologies for broadacre biodiverse restoration.
6 1,099,500
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