Outbound Western Ring Road Servo Grassland

Get petrol at this servo and look around, you are surrounded by grassland! This parcel of land is owned by VicRoads, who are doing a decent job of managing it, though as with all VicRoads land, it could be cleared for road widening any time. Immediately adjacent to...

One Tree East, 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...

Olive, 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...

Old Truganina Cemetery Grassland, Conservation Area 10

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...