This project saw 37ha of cleared agricultural land in the endangered VVP eucalypt woodland EVC revegetated with 42,000 tubestock hectare using a diverse mix of canopy, midstorey and understorey shrub species.

These plantings compliment a larger over riding project called ‘Corridors to Corangamite’ by completing another piece in the puzzle of 17 kilometres of stepping stone corridors across cleared agricultural lands.

Project activities will
• increase habitat area of a critically endangered EVC which is now less than 3% of its original extent due to clearing and fragmentation. Plantings will establish the woodland structure with a diverse mix of canopy, mid and shrub layer species.
• Improve water quality into RAMSAR lakes and significant wetlands by fencing and revegetating riparian zones along 3 km of watercourses to establish continuous corridors that form the “backbone” of our corridor system.
• Improve ecosystem services, ecological connectivity and habitat connectivity by planting a diverse mix of species to allow movement of threatened species and encourage the return of birdlife.
• Use a diversity of species to provide food sources for birds and insects, including for threatened species such as Corangamite Water Skink
• Preserve biodiversity by using seed from remnant redgums