Our Projects

Connecting Country operates at a landscape scale to increase, enhance and restore biodiversity across the Mount Alexander Shire and immediate surroundings in central Victoria.

To implement our landscape approach we apply for funding from a variety of sources including government and philanthropic. Since starting up in 2007 by local people interested in the local environment, with the support of the Norman Wettenhall Foundation and Friends of the Box-Ironbark Forests, Connecting Country has supported significant on-ground conservation works, provided assistance to the local Landcare movement, coordinated community education and awareness-raising activities and implemented a rigorous monitoring and evaluation program. To find out more about our achievements to date click here.

Current Projects

Volunteers being briefed at the Landcare Camp Out on the Mount

The current projects are listed below, with more information available by contacting us, or clicking on the link

• Biodiversity Monitoring
• Landcare Facilitator Program
• Caring for our Key Biodiversity Areas in Central Victoria
• Prickly Plants for Wildlife on small properties
• Community Skills Development Training
• Habitat Health Check: empowering citizen scientists 
• Remnant Rescue: restoring woodland bird habitat
• Landcare Connections
• Renovation Rescue Nestboxes

Past Projects

• Prickly Plants for Wildlife
• Yellow Box Woodlands
• Upper Coliban Project
• Biodiversity Hubs
• Connecting Landscapes
• Linking Mount Alexander to Metcalfe
• Forest Creek Action Plan
• Barkers Creek Clean-up Project
• Woodland Birds (2012-13)
• Community Education 2014
• Community Education (2010-2013)
• Eucalyptus Identification Courses
• Habitat for Bush Birds (2014-16)

Support for

• Grass Identification CD
• Reptiles and Frogs Brochure
• Woodland Birds Brochure
• Castlemaine Field Naturalists Photopoint Project
• Plants of the Castlemaine District Identification Guide
• Castlemaine Flora