Land Owners Continue to Build Biodiversity and Resilience

Far East Victoria Landcare has just completed another year of revegetation, this time across seven properties. 

Though the Victorian Government Landcare grants and administered by the East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority, local networks of volunteers plants thousands of native indigenous plants and uses fencing to protect remnant vegetation.  

This year’s project delivered significant benefits to the Far East Gippsland community by enhancing local biodiversity, improving landscape resilience, and supporting sustainable land management.

Restoring native vegetation strengthens ecosystem services such as pollination, soil health, and water quality, which benefit both agriculture and the wider environment.

The project fosters collaboration between landholders, the local Moogji Nursery, and community groups, which is building local knowledge and conservation skills.

By protecting endangered species and restoring natural habitats, the project not only safeguards the region’s unique environment but also strengthens community pride, wellbeing, and connection to the land for future generations.

By improving the condition and resilience of natural environments, the project will help safeguard the region’s unique flora and fauna against the growing impacts of climate change and future disturbances, such as fire and flood.

Continued community engagement, training, and citizen science is building local capacity and long-term stewardship.

Expressions of interest in this year’s grants have seen a record number of application (18 properties) insure ongoing ecological recovery and resilience across the Far East Gippsland landscape.