A community-led engagement project, titled Beyond Yellingbo has successfully engaged landholders since 2017. This new phase provides a ‘roadmap’ for the Beyond Yellingbo project for the next 5 years.

Rather than attempting to engage all of the landholders along all of the Creeks at the same time, this Plan creates an order in which Creeks could be targeted for engagement and then identifies priority reaches and properties along each Creek.

The order for targeted engagement is subject to change in response to future HH and LLBP releases and translocations, habitat restoration plans and confirmed sightings of HH and/or LLBP beyond Yellingbo.

Aims for the next 5 years:

• Increase protection and restoration of current Helmeted Honeyeater (HH) and lowland Leadbeater’s possum (LLBP) habitat within YNCR through engagement with priority neighbours of YNCR
• Target priority properties where works will benefit Helmeted Honeyeater translocation/release sites
• Commence engagement with priority landholders along the Creeks that flow in and out of YNCR, to provide future habitat and landscape connectivity
• Provide strong support to landholders engaged in actions through coordination of funding and implementation of works and at least two project updates per year
• Increase social cohesion between participating landholders to enable sustainability of action beyond the Project
• Ensure that landholders, on whose properties works are completed, have the tools and information to continue conservation action
• Seek funding to support future Project Officer wage and implementation of works at least one year in advance.