In conjunction with the Taungurung Land and Waters Council, Biolinks Alliance has developed a pilot project in the Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve to restore the leaky landscape via the Watershed Repair project. Spring Plains is a local hotspot for threatened woodland birds, including the critically endangered Swift Parrot. Bringing together the lands Traditional Owners, the Taungurung people who are wanting to heal country, as well as Parks Victoria, Birdlife Australia and the broader Heathcote community, the project will integrate restoration techniques that, at least in central Victoria, have been before been combined at a landscape-scale to demonstrate how the health of bushland damage can be quickly and cost effectively restored. 

More information about the Spring Plains project, as well as the broader Heathcote Local 2 Landscape program can be found online. 

 

The damaged soil at Spring Plains, Heathcote. Photographer: Sasha Dobson