Nardoo Hills Reserves

At 246 ha the Nardoo Hills Reserves contribute to the protection of some of the most threatened ecosystems in southern Australia. It adjoins the Bush Heritage Judith Eardley Reserve, 344 ha and the Wychitella Nature Conservation Reserve and will help to safeguard the elevated grassy woodland habitats of many declining woodland bird species. The property is particularly important for the vulnerable hooded robin.

Save Wildlife Association in Healesville has allowed us to acquire this outstanding grassy woodland property in north central Victoria on the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wrung people. It is known as the Judith Eardley Reserve and forms part of a complex of protected land that forms part of the Nardoo Hills Reserves. It is home to a large number of declining woodland birds.

On its eastern, and part of its southern, boundary it abuts the Wychitella Nature Conservation Reserve, a series of blocks of remnant habitat totalling about 6300 hectares. With a protected reference area of 460 hectares to the south-east, the new Bush Heritage reserve will bring the reserved land to over 7000 hectares, not insignificant in a region where the land has been heavily cleared or modified. 

Management work: Management planning, weed control, infrastructure planning, fencing, mammal and bird surveys and monitoring, feral animal control, track maintenance.