Gardiners Creek Reserve Revegetation Project

The Kooyongkoot Alliance, through a grant from the State Governments Green Links Program, with the with the Urban Guerrillas and the 
local community, aim to restore 1.2 ha(12,000m2) of neglected habitat, alongside a section of Gardiners Creek in Gardiners Creek Reserve, Burwood. 

Please come along and join us for a smoking ceremony at 10 am conducted by  Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Elder, Uncle Colin Hunter jr, followed by a planting session and weed removal along the side of the creek (so we do not have to spray near sensitive water areas).... then a BBQ to finish.

This project coincides with a recently completed project upstream, restoring and creating a corridor for indigenous flora and fauna along the creek. The project aims to encourage species such as Rakali, Spotted Pardalotes, Eastern Blue Tongued Lizards and the endangered Gang Gang Cockatoo to the location.

Work has started by Whitehorse Council with the construction of fenced areas for recovery/ refuge habitat for flora and flora.

The project will deliver:

 Weed removal .

 Revegetation  (approximately 16,000 indigenous plants).

 Installation of habitat  logs, rocks and nesting hollows.

 Community  planting days and citizen science events.

We are working closely with the project team City of Whitehorse, Urban Guerrillas, Deakin University,  as well as community supporters, Friends of Gardiners Creek Reserve, ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation), Presbyterian Ladies College and others.

This is the first of a series of working bees over the next two years for community to get involved.

Please register your interest in the event.

We look forward to seeing you on the day!!!!