Basalt Part B, Western Grassland Reserve

The Western Grassland Reserve, part of state-federal Melbourne Strategic Assessment (MSA), is failing to deliver promised conservation outcomes due to poor set-up and implementation. Only 18% acquired. Weeds proliferating. Complex management issues. Huge, urgent...

Basalt Part A, Western Grassland Reserve

The Western Grassland Reserve, part of state-federal Melbourne Strategic Assessment (MSA), is failing to deliver promised conservation outcomes due to poor set-up and implementation. Only 18% acquired. Weeds proliferating. Complex management issues. Huge, urgent...

Barro, Western Grassland Reserve

The Western Grassland Reserve, part of state-federal Melbourne Strategic Assessment (MSA), is failing to deliver promised conservation outcomes due to poor set-up and implementation. Only 18% acquired. Weeds proliferating. Complex management issues. Huge, urgent...

Bald Hill, Growling Grass Frog Corridors, Conservation Area 34

Yet to be acquired. The corridors don’t specifically protect grassland or Grassy Eucalypt Woodland, though often they do, as well as providing vital biodiversity corridors for habitat and floodplain ecologies. Part of the recently declared Merri Creek Marram...

Bald Hill, Conservation Area 22

Yet to be publicly acquired. Grassland and Grassy Woodland supporting Growling Grass Frog, Matted Flax-lily, Curly Sedge and other rare species. Part of the recently declared Merri Creek Marram Baba (‘Body of the Mother’) Parklands, a critical biodiversity...