Restoring landscapes across the Mount Alexander Region

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Improving biodiversity on your land can boost productivity and land values, purify air and water, lessen the impacts of flood and drought, detoxify waste, generate and renew soil, pollinate crops, control agricultural pests, and regulate climate. There is so much you can do to help. Click on the following links to find out more.

Connecting Country have produced a series of four factsheets that provide localised information on invasive species, nestboxes for wildlife and planting with tubestock. To view the factsheets – click here

Improve productivity

On soils, native pastures and shelter belts

Connecting Country factsheets

Includes factsheets on invasive species, nestboxes for wildlife and revegetation with tubestock

Protect the existing values

Protect the existing remnant areas by fencing, pest animal control

Revegetation

Tips and techniques including direct seeding and tube stock

Weed control

What to do about problem weeds

Invasive Pest Animals

Effective management of introduced pest animals

Biodiversity and Climate Change

What can we expect and what can we do to help?

Biodiversity and Fire

Enhance biodiversity and manage fire risk at the same time.

Wildlife Friendly Gardens

Tips on attracting wildlife to your garden