Building catchment resilience across the heart of the Mornington Peninsula
This ongoing project seeks to connect two significant areas of remnant vegetation, Arthurs Seat State Park and Mornington Peninsula National Park (Greens Bush) through weeding and fencing of remnants and revegetation, improving habitat and opportunities for movement across the landscape, native fauna will benefit from community pest control and nestbox installation.
Themes and Local Areas
| Primary Theme: | Land use |
| Other Themes: | Sustainable agriculture, Traditional Owners and Aboriginal Victorians, Communities, Waterways, Native vegetation, Native animals |
| Primary Local Area: | Mornington Peninsula |
| Other Local Areas: | – |
| Project location: | This project will work across the heart of the Mornington Peninsula from Greens Bush through Arthurs Seat to Cape Schanck and across to the Tootgarook Swamp |
| Scale of the project: | Landscape |
| New or continuing work: | Continuing/building on previous work |
Project partners
| Lead organisation: | Melbourne Water |
| Key partners: | Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, Mornington Peninsula Landcare Network, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, Parks Victoria, Trust for Nature, |
| Registered Aboriginal Party/s relevant to the project or its area: | Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation |
Investment opportunities
| Opportunities for investors within this project start from: | $$$ (Hundreds of thousands of dollars) |
| Estimated scale of investment for full project implementation: | $$$$ (Millions of dollars) |
| Estimated timeframe for full project implementation: | 2-10 years |
Contribution toward targets
| Primary Regional Catchment Strategy target: | While urban development has expanded in the region, sufficient extent and quality of native vegetation and agriculture is retained, including in the Green Wedges, to support healthy ecosystems and agricultural industries |
| Relevant Biodiversity 2037 goal: | Support people to take action for nature |
| Relevant National Landcare Program priority: | Soil, biodiversity and vegetation – Projects that will protect and enhance on-farm remnant native vegetation |
