This project will restore Plains Grassy Woodland (EVC 55) and adjacent riparian habitats (EVC 56, 68 & 641) across 96ha of private pastoral land in Western Victoria. The project will result in multiple Connecting & outcomes that provide co-benefits to the agricultural and environmental sustainability of the region: Restoring Threatened DUNKELD > Planting of 49,000 indigenous tubestock of local (within 25km) provenance; 20MT-323 VIC $101,889.50 Woodland PASTORAL CO. PTY. > Restoration of key Grassy Woodland structural species, particularly small and medium shrub and Communities in LTD. understory species to restore the species and structural composition of the original EVC to the Western Victoria landscape; > Restore and link up a regionally significant corridor along the Wannon River. The Coranderrk Bushland Reserve, adjoining Healesville Sanctuary, is one of the few remaining remnants of lowland Yarra Valley vegetation. Under Zoos Victoria’s management, 8 ha of floodplain Restoring the forest in the Coranderrk will be revegetated to permit releases of captive-bred Helmeted Honeyeaters ZOOLOGICAL PARKS Coranderrk Bushland and lowland Leadbeater’s Possums, two of Victoria’s most endangered species. The offspring of these 20MT-328 VIC AND GARDENS $110,000.00 for Victoria's Faunal free-ranging breeding populations in the Coranderrk, with enhanced behavioural fitness and survival BOARD Emblems skills, will be used to secure or establish other wild populations . Provision of suitable habitat conditions through revegetation is essential to the success of this project. The floodplain forest to be restored is also a threatened ecological community. Building upon significant boxthorn and rabbit control works undertaken by the Friends of the Organ Organ Pipes National Pipes earlier this year, this project will revegetate a major escarpment of 33 hectares alongside FRIENDS OF ORGAN Park - Revegetation Jacksons Creek. Direct seeding and tubestock planting revegetation techniques will both be employed 20MT-72 VIC PIPES NATIONAL $74,305.00 corridor linking with to link existing National Park vegetation to plantings undertaken at Sydenham Park. The project will PARKINC Sydenham Park deliver a habitat corridor for small native birds and animals, selecting species that will support the sugar glider in particular which was successfully reintroduced into the park in 1989.
20MT-323 Connecting & Restoring Threatened Woodland Communities in Western Victoria This project will restore Plains Grassy Woodland (EVC 55) and adjacent riparian habitats (EVC 56, 68 & 641) across 96ha of private pastoral land in Western Victoria. The project will result in multiple outcomes that provide co-benefits to the agricultural and environmental sustainability of the region: > Planting of 49,000 indigenous tubestock of local (within 25km) provenance; > Restoration of key Grassy Woodland structural species, particularly small and medium shrub and understory species to restore the species and structural composition of the original EVC to the landscape; > Restore and link up a regionally significant corridor along the Wannon River. DUNKELD PASTORAL CO. PTY. LTD. $101,889.50 VIC 20MT-328 Restoring the Coranderrk Bushland for Victoria's Faunal Emblems The Coranderrk Bushland Reserve, adjoining Healesville Sanctuary, is one of the few remaining remnants of lowland Yarra Valley vegetation. Under Zoos Victoria’s management, 8 ha of floodplain forest in the Coranderrk will be revegetated to permit releases of captive-bred Helmeted Honeyeaters and lowland Leadbeater’s Possums, two of Victoria’s most endangered species. The offspring of these free-ranging breeding populations in the Coranderrk, with enhanced behavioural fitness and survival skills, will be used to secure or establish other wild populations . Provision of suitable habitat conditions through revegetation is essential to the success of this project. The floodplain forest to be restored is also a threatened ecological community. ZOOLOGICAL PARKS AND GARDENS BOARD $110,000.00 VIC 20MT-72 Organ Pipes National Park - Revegetation corridor linking with Sydenham Park Building upon significant boxthorn and rabbit control works undertaken by the Friends of the Organ Pipes earlier this year, this project will revegetate a major escarpment of 33 hectares alongside Jacksons Creek. Direct seeding and tubestock planting revegetation techniques will both be employed to link existing National Park vegetation to plantings undertaken at Sydenham Park. The project will deliver a habitat corridor for small native birds and animals, selecting species that will support the sugar glider in particular which was successfully reintroduced into the park in 1989. FRIENDS OF ORGAN PIPES NATIONAL PARKINC $74,305.00 VIC