Brophy Family and Youth Services
Education
A collaborative response to youth disengagement in regional Victoria
ProjectVictorian Coastal Wetland Restoration Program: restoring wetlands of our past, for our future
Amount$199,853 over three years
Date2021
ProgramPast Programs | Environment
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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Rural and regional Victoria | Building and strengthening the capacity of regional land managers through hands-on restoration workshops. |
Reducing inequality | Engaging Traditional Owner groups to incorporate their cultural knowledge of coastal wetland management into the restoration decision framework and valuation of co-benefits of these ecosystems. |
Enabling financial sustainability | Developing financial impetus mechanisms to encourage private landholders to protect and restore the natural assets (saltmarsh) of their properties to ensure long term protection. |
Building organisational capacity | Immersive workshops will build the capacity of land managers, natural resource managers and traditional owners to enable long term support of upscaled saltmarsh restoration across the Victorian coast. |
Collaboration and partnership | Five Traditional Owner groups, Catchment Management Authorities, Parks Victoria, and Greening Australia. |
Restoring threatened ecosystems through large-scale restoration
Vegetated coastal wetlands are among the most carbon rich sinks on the planet, and play an important role in climate regulation, sequestering as much carbon, if not more, as global forest ecosystems. Deakin University's Blue Carbon Lab will use low-cost methods to upscale wetland restoration along the Victorian coast, doubling the total area of saltmarsh, while demonstrating strategic restoration practices which will contribute to a whole of system approach.
Victorian coastal wetlands have seen a loss of 9,000ha, or roughly 25% of their pre-European extent. The disturbance to these ecosystems has had drastic negative impacts on Victoria’s biodiversity, particularly for resident and migratory birds.
Snapshot:
"This project is timely, given that the UN has declared 2021-2030 the decade of ecosystem restoration." - Chris Cumming, CEO, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
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