by adrian | May 30, 2024
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...
by adrian | May 30, 2024
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...
by adrian | May 30, 2024
An ungrazed and unploughed settler cemetery, ‘Trug’ is home to the most important population in federally endangered Button Wrinklewort in Australia. Poorly briefed arborists recently severely damaged the grassland, highlighting governance failures that...
by adrian | May 30, 2024
Residual buffer around precious Old Truganina Cemetery Grassland, but with few conservation values. Plans to create it as a herb-rich extension to the grassland. The developer has put an illegal access road through it.Main photo: As development encroaches, the area...
by adrian | May 30, 2024
Yet to be publicly acquired. Intended to protect Grassy Eucalypt Woodland, grassland, Matted Flax-lily and Golden Sun Moth and other rare species. Some good understorey, but significant weed load too.Main photo: This not yet acquired Conservation Area is intended, in...
