Parklands Albury Wodonga is excited to have received a Bupa Landcare Grant and to be part of the planting of over 80,000 trees and plants across Australia, linking environmental health with community wellbeing. Our project will contribute 5%, or 3,650 plants, towards this larger scale target whilst establishing a revegetated environmental corridor between Kiewa River Regional Park and Ryans Lagoon Wetlands.
This project has been made possible due to generous funding from Bupa and Landcare Australia.
Why is it so important to continue planting connected corridors at scale?
SUPPORT NATIVE BIRD AND BAT SPECIES by increasing their native habitat for nesting and food sources.
HELP NATURE ADAPT TO THE CHANGING CLIMATE by creating a connected corridors between our Regional Parks, waterways and wetlands to enable native animals to safely travel across country and adapt to the changing climate.
CLIMATE RESILIENT ECO-SYSTEM by planting local provenance seedlings from hotter, drier areas. This will increase longer-term survival rates as the seedlings will be sourced from stock used to less rainfall and higher temperatures.
INCREASED EXTENT OF HABITAT FOR THREATENED SPECIES by plantings that support threatened species that can be found in the abutting regional parks, such as squirrel glider, sea eagle, Nankeen night heron, barking owl, egrets (little, intermediate, and eastern great), magpie goose and musk duck.
To learn more about the importance of connectivity conservation, check out the Slopes to Summit project.
