Hilltops/Weddin management actions

Aerial view by Guy Roth
Photo: Guy Roth		 Possum in a nest by Phil Spark
Photo: Phil Spark		 People planting trees by Milly Hobson
Photo: Milly Hobson

General management action

Routine control of terrestrial and aquatic weeds, including via management agreements with NRM agencies, councils and other organisations.

Routine control of feral animals, including via management agreements with NRM agencies, councils and other organisations.

Targeted revegetation works to increase native vegetation cover over the long term, focussing efforts adjacent to existing remnant vegetation, within threatened ecological communities, within identified regional corridors, and adjacent to rivers, streams and wetlands.

Prevent livestock from having permanent access to rivers, streams and wetlands, and where possible excluding grazing altogether to allow the condition of river banks and wetlands to recover.

 

Priority management actions for this region

  • Avoid the use of large fishing nets in rivers and creeks, and remove any dis-used nets that may ensnare or obstruct fish and other species such as Duck-billed Platypus.
  • Protect and restore wetlands to provide secure habitat for aquatic species such as Brolga, Glossy Ibis, Magpie Goose and Common Sandpiper.
  • Retain large isolated paddock trees and clumps of trees to assist movement of species such as Common Brushtail Possum, Little Pied Bat, Black Falcon, Flame Robin, Painted Honeyeater, Southern Boobook and Superb Parrot, and encourage regeneration around them.
  • Retain native grassland and shrubs on the farm for ground-dwelling species such as Brown Treecreeper, Gilbert’s Whistler, Hooded Robin, Malleefowl and Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard
  • Retain large fallen logs as well as stick and leaf litter as habitat for species such as Short-beaked Echidna, Brown Treecreeper, Flame Robin, Grey-crowned Babbler, Malleefowl, Common Death Adder and Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard.
  • Work with the community to control feral goats which threaten native plants including Spiny Peppergrass, Slender Darling Pea and Austrostipa wakoolica.
  • Work with the community to control the European fox which preys on native species such as Bush Stone-curlew, Malleefowl and Plains Wanderer.
  • Work with the community to control wild dogs which prey on native species such as Common Brushtail Possum, Duck-billed Platypus, Malleefowl and Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard, as well as calves and lambs.
  • Work with the community to control Noisy Miners which out-compete other native bird species such as Dusky Woodswallow, Flame Robin, Black-chinned Honeyeater, Painted Honeyeater and Superb Parrot.
  • Be aware of animals on the road (e.g. Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Tawny Frogmouth and Eastern Blue-tongue Lizard), particularly at dusk and dawn when animals are most susceptible to vehicle strike – practice defensive driving.

 

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