Biolinks Alliance is working with Parks Victoria to deliver the Spring Plains Watershed Repair project in Heathcote, Victoria. The project will integrate restoration techniques that, at least in central Victoria, have never before been combined at a landscape-scale to demonstrate how the health of bushland damage can be quickly and cost-effectively restored. 

The techniques and research behind the restoration to be undertaken at Spring Plains was outlined in our 2021 Leaky Landscapes symposium.

Biolinks Alliance was awarded $50,000 from Parks Victoria as part of their Volunteering Innovation Fund - round two. The funding was awarded by public vote in the last quarter of 2021. The funds will be used for monitoring technology such as cameras, nest boxes, mapping tools and training. Documenting ecological outcomes over a 10 year period is key to the project and involves establishing a volunteer citizen science program, measuring indicators such as arboreal mammals and woodland birds.