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Major funding boost to help Australia's most threatened
woodlands and rainforests.
The Australian Government has given Gippsland's two CMN's and Trust
for nature$400,000 to help our work in some of the country's most
endangered plant communities.
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| The caring for our country grant will support a
range of protection and restoration works in the threatened woodlands
and rainforests in East Gippsland. two new positions have also been
funded For the first time the East Gippsland Rainforest CMN will have
its own facilitator Lakes Entrance resident Peter Murrell. Trish Fox,
current facilitator for the Gippsland Plains CMN will increase from 1.5
to 3.5 days. The grant is the results of a combined effort between the
two CMN's and Trust for Nature and the Trust will shortly appoint
a conservation officer who will seek covenants further into West
Gippsland. The grant has been welcomed by Jane Greacen and Neville
Prowse-Brown presidents of the EGRCMN and GPCMN respectively.
"This will allow us to work with our partners to really improve the
conditions in our rainforests " said Dr Greacen. "We will now set up a
deer removal and management program with Parks Victoria in rainforest
along the Mitchell River and at Lake Tyers where communities such
as the endangered Littoral Rainforest occurs We will also work with East
Gippsland Shire Council to improve the rainforest gullies around Lakes
Entrance. Mr. Prowse-Brown added that he hoped the many
planned ecological burns in the Red Gum remnants would reduce the weed
threat to this, also critically endangered, community.
Overview of all
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Trish Fox and Peter Murrell CMN facilitators. |
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