Green Links

Urban Ripple: Restoring our Yarrowee River and its little Creeks
Funding: $701,584
Recipient: Bunanyung Landscape Alliance
Location: Ballarat

The Alliance will work to protect and revegetate 13 sites in the urban heart of Ballarat, covering 9.8 km of waterways and 80.5 hectares of land. Habitat enhancement works will be completed along the Yarrowee River, Specimen Vale Creek, Canadian Creek and connecting tributaries.

Moorabool River Reserve Riparian Restoration
Funding: $28,950
Recipient: Golden Plains Shire Council
Location: Batesford

This project supports native wildlife by removing woody weeds and planting local indigenous trees and shrubs at Moorabool River Reserve as part of community planting days. The project ensures the parkland remains a natural outdoor space for the Batesford and Geelong communities to engage with nature.

Rivers of the Barwon revegetation works
Funding: $1,769,611
Recipient: Corangamite Catchment Management Authority
Location: Geelong

This project will engage with community groups and public and private landholders to revegetate sections of the Upper Barwon, Moorabool and Leigh Rivers, and highly urbanised areas of Geelong. It is delivered in partnership with Barwon Water, Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Corporation, the City of Greater Geelong and Deakin University.

Native Grasses Revival: Enhancing Gilgais for Clean Waterways
Funding: $200,000
Recipient: Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative
Location: Little River

This project will focus on wetland revival along Little River. Transforming barren land into Gilgais wetlands by removing weeds and reseeding native grasses will increase the wetlands’ rainwater absorption, facilitating a more gradual release into Little River and improved groundwater conditions.

Revegetation for connections in the West
Funding: $54,288
Recipient: Melbourne Water
Location: Ballan

This project will revegetate 5 hectares of land along Korjamnunnip Creek, which flows into the Werribee River. Grow West will run its annual Community Planting Day, involving volunteers planting 4,000 seedling plants. Grow West will also remove weeds such as blackberries and gorse.

Parwan Gorge Conservation Precinct
Funding: $77,185
Recipient: Moorabool Landcare Network
Location: Bacchus Marsh

The Moorabool Landcare Network, including the Friends of Hopetoun Park and Parwan Gorge, will host Traditional Owner educational events and community tree planting days as they aim to restore 12 hectares of land along Parwan Gorge (Werribee River) adjacent to Hopetoun Park, south of Bacchus Marsh.

Bendigo's Creeks: Grassy Green Links
Funding: $160,856
Recipient: City of Greater Bendigo
Location: Bendigo

This project implements Strategy 3 of the Reimagining Bendigo Creek vision and aims to re-establish the grassy component of the Creekline Grassy Woodland EVC and work with Dja Dja Wurrung Traditional Owners and local schools to communicate the value of this restoration.

Caring for Kilmore Creek
Funding: $136,600
Recipient: Mitchell Shire Council
Location: Kilmore

This project will deliver on-ground works to support implementation of the Kilmore Creek Landscape Masterplan, including weed control, revegetation with indigenous species, habitat improvements and community engagement.

Greening of Mittagong Creek's tributaries in Hidden Valley, Wallan, stage 1
Funding: $33,453
Recipient: Wallan Environment Group Inc.
Location: Wallan

The project will control woody weeds and plant 5,000 indigenous plants on 4.92 hectares along a small tributary of Mittagong Creek in Hidden Valley. These works will enhance the extent and diversity of the reserve's indigenous vegetation and improve amenity.

Flooding Creek linear reserve green link
Funding: $284,371
Recipient: Wellington Shire Council
Location: Sale

This project helps restore a wildlife corridor linking the north end of Flooding Creek to the high biodiversity value areas in the Thomson River corridor and provide new opportunities for community to experience the area’s biodiversity.

Moorabool and Barwon Rivers Restoration Project
Funding: $177,813
Recipient: City of Greater Geelong
Location: Geelong

The project partners will undertake revegetation and weed management along strategic sections of the Barwon and Moorabool rivers and in Sparrovale Wetland to increase biodiversity and amenity.

Rewilding Barongarook Creek for a healthier future: Empowering community to care
Funding: $349,410
Recipient: Colac Otway Shire Council
Location: Colac

The project will re-establish native vegetation, connecting previous restoration sites and remnant native vegetation along a degraded creek through Colac. The project will foster connection to the site’s Indigenous heritage values, and improve community stewardship of this important local waterway.

Tarneet Islands Revegetation 2024-2026
Funding: $114,408
Recipient: Wyndham City Council
Location: Werribee

Tarneet Islands are located within the Werribee River and are home to the nationally endangered Growling Grass Frog. Wyndham City Council will remove weeds and plant 15,000 trees and shrubs across 1.37 hectares, supporting wider efforts to protect a significant Aboriginal cultural heritage site.

Restoring Werribee River Park
Funding: $152,796
Recipient: Werribee River Association
Location: Werribee

Community led planting days will focus on 1.5 hectares of parkland along the Werribee River improving habitats for wetland and migratory birds and other wildlife. The project will plant over 9,000 native seedlings, creating more habitat to relieve the pressures from increased local urbanisation.

Maribyrnong River Valley Habitat Restoration
Funding: $198,495
Recipient: Brimbank City Council
Location: Keilor North

Sydenham Park is a new space for the community in Melbourne’s North-West. Through community planting days and a fencing program, weed and pest control, and revegetation, the project will restore and create new connections along the upper section of the Maribyrnong River and Jacksons Creek, in Keilor North.

Steele Creek Habitat Improvement Stage 1
Funding: $200,000
Recipient: Friends of Steele Creek
Location: Niddrie

This project will undertake weed removal and revegetation works along Steele Creek. Habitat enhancement activities will protect spaces for wildlife and ensure that the parkland remains a natural outdoor space for the Keilor East, Niddrie, and surrounding communities to spend time and engage with nature.

Kororoit Creek Connections
Funding: $199,500
Recipient: Brimbank City Council
Location: Sunshine West

Brimbank City Council, Melbourne Water and Friends of Kororoit Creek will collaborate in revegetating and restoring 1.2km of Kororoit Creek in Sunshine West. This project connects small vital waterway habitats, improving biodiversity by planting native vegetation and installing rocks, logs, and artificial hollows.

Maribyrnong River and Stony Creek wildlife protection and habitat creation
Funding: $188,000
Recipient: Maribyrnong City Council
Location: Footscray, Yarraville

This project will protect and improve 9 hectares of wetland sites with a fencing program and habitat enhancement activities along 3 hectares of Stony Creek. It will create a natural outdoor, green-blue space connecting Footscray, Tottenham, Kingsville, and Yarraville communities. Maribyrnong City Council will monitor wildlife following the works.

Infill Revegetation & Biolinking along Moonee Ponds Creek
Funding: $25,473
Recipient: Friends of Moonee Ponds Creek
Location: Brunswick West

This project will restore a quarter of a hectare of bioink for many animals along Moonee Ponds Creek between Hopetoun Reserve (upstream) and Brady Reserve (downstream). This is achieved by removing weeds and planting of native species.

Community bringing Curly Sedge back to Curly Sedge Creek
Funding: $47,307
Recipient: Whittlesea Community Connections
Location: Wollert

Working alongside Narrap Rangers and Yarra Valley Water, 12 community planting events will support revegetation efforts along 6,000 square metres of Curly Sedge Creek, a tributary of Merri Creek. The area shelters one of the few intact populations of nationally vulnerable curly sedges and provides the habitat for growling grass frogs.

Creating habitat at Edwardes Lake, Edgars Creek Wetlands and Edgars Creek
Funding: $316,771
Recipient: Friends of Edwardes Lake
Location: Reservoir

This project will improve water quality and biodiversity outcomes through targeted plantings and habitat installations at Edwardes Lake and Edgars Creek and Wetland. Hollow dependent animals such as the Australian wood ducks, eastern long-necked turtles, kookaburras, possums, and microbats will benefit from the works.

Edgars Creek Corridor Project
Funding: $115,953
Recipient: Merri-bek City Council
Location: Coburg North

Council, community, and Friends groups will revegetate and restore three sites along the Edgars Creek corridor in Coburg North. The project will help protect habitat for animals such as the endangered tussock skinks found in the area. New nature play elements for local families and kindergartens will support learning about the environment.

Connecting up Communities - Corridors and Refuges for Urban Fauna
Funding: $463,731
Recipient: Merri Creek Management Committee
Location: Northcote, Brunswick East, Thornbury, Coburg

The project aims to plant over 17,000 shrubs, grasses, and native herb species along a 4km stretch of Merri Creek (from Northcote to Coburg) to improve habitat connectivity. The project will install new wildlife friendly fences, providing safe shelters for Swamp Wallabies and woodland birds.

Royal Park Creek Restoration
Funding: $168,640
Recipient: City of Melbourne
Location: Parkville

The City of Melbourne project will see the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Narrap Unit work to restore an unloved but historic creek on the edge of Royal Park. The creek runs into the Trin Warren Tam-Boore Wetland and connects to Moonee Ponds Creek.

Glen Iris Wetlands and Gardiners Creek (KooyongKoot) Biodiversity Project
Funding: $196,863
Recipient: Stonnington City Council
Location: Glen Iris

Stonnington City Council will work with the local Glen Iris community, schools, Friends of groups, and Rotary Club to remove weeds, plant native trees and shrubs, and clear excess sediment and wastewater. This will improve water quality and habitat around the Glen Iris Wetlands.

Gardiners Creek Reserve / KooyongKoot biodiversity Corridor revegetation
Funding: $94,130
Recipient: KooyongKoot Alliance
Location: Burwood

KooyongKoot Alliance plans to revegetate 1,200 square metres of Gardiners Creek Reserve, Burwood, restoring and creating a new corridor for native flora and fauna. The project hopes to restore the habitat for Rakali, Spotted Pardalotes, common blue tongued lizards and endangered Gang-Gang cockatoos.

Blackburn Lake Sanctuary Main Inlet Wetland Regeneration
Funding: $53,655
Recipient: The Whitehorse Community Indigenous Plant Project (Bungalook Nursery)
Location: Blackburn

Bringing the community together through the Gardiners Creek Regional Collaboration, this project will plant 4,000 trees and shrubs at Blackburn Lake Sanctuary. Habitat enhancement works at the upper reaches of Gardiners Creek/KooyongKoot will benefit native species such as Sacred Kingfishers and Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.

Planting the Seed – Helping Schoolchildren Create a Living Classroom
Funding: $102,250
Recipient: Eco Warriors Australia
Location: Yering

This hands-on project, coordinated with a First Nations representative, teaches primary school students to collect, propagate and care for native seedlings. The seedlings will be used to revegetate a 10 hectares site at Yering Billabong. After planting, students will use a data collection tool to monitor their revegetation sites.

Habitat Regeneration at Upper Yarra Treatment Plant
Funding: $567,600
Recipient: Yarra Valley Water
Location: Launching Place

Revegetation and weed management will restore 35 hectares of wetland and improve water quality to connecting creeks and tributaries, including the Yarra River. Planting native plants and shrubs will start in June this year, and once established, critically endangered Helmeted Honeyeaters and Leadbeater’s possums will be relocated to the area.

Collaborative habitat creation along the Mullum Mullum Creek corridor
Funding: $183,111
Recipient: Maroondah City Council
Location: Ringwood, Mitcham, Donvale

The project will protect, improve and create new habitat opportunities for a diversity of species at eleven sites along the Mullum Mullum Creek corridor. The project will also engage community in caring for the land.

Healing Darebin Creek’s Northern Grassy Eucalypt Woodlands
Funding: $299,282
Recipient: Darebin Creek Management Committee
Location: Wollert

This project will restore 17.5 hectares of Grassy Eucalypt Woodlands on the Darebin Creek in Wollert, including weed management and direct seeding of native grasses. The land is part of the Bunjil Nganga reserve, providing important habitat for endangered species including the Growling Grass Frog, Golden Sun Moth and Tussock Skink.

Kororoit Creek: Slice of haven in suburbia
Funding: $23,000
Recipient: Friends of Kororoit Creek
Location: Sunshine

The project will continue revegetation efforts to transform the Kororoit Creek corridor through Sunshine, including providing infill planting.

Olinda Creek Floodplain Restoration Project
Funding: $342,229
Recipient: Yarra Ranges Shire Council
Location: Yering

This project will target a degraded area within the larger Yering Billabongs project site, a priority project of Burndap Birrarung Burndap Umarkoo, the Yarra Strategic Plan.