Ngulambarra

Ngulambarra is nestled between Bush Heritage's Lawan Reserve and Ngarri (Mt Egbert). Ngarri is part of the Wychitella Nature Conservation Reserve managed by Parks Victoria and Djandak.

Extending habitat protection in this area is a significant step for our Victorian operations. It means we now protect about 2,450 hectares across this heavily fragmented region, providing much needed connectivity and enabling isolated populations of threatened bird, mammal and reptile species to move more freely across the landscape.

These protected areas are in our Kara Kara Wedderburn Focal Landscape – the area between the regional town of Wedderburn and the Kara Kara National Park that we have been connecting up for more than a decade. This landscape is home to patches of temperate woodland which are the most threatened wooded ecosystem in Australia, primarily due to land clearing.

Some of the property was historically cleared, but the previous landowner and good friend of Bush Heritage Paul Dettman from Cassinia Environmental had begun steps towards ecological restoration including extensive revegetation work with 25,000 seedlings and 400km of direct seeding lines. We plan to continue this restoration process in partnership with Djaara (the Dja Dja Wurrung Traditional Owners).

The acquisition was made possible through the generous support of Bush Heritage donors Caroline and Terry Bellair, who gifted us $1 million to purchase remnant habitat in the Dalyenong region of our Kara Kara Wedderburn Focal Landscape. Caroline and Terry’s generosity led to our 2019 acquisition of Bellair Reserve and their ongoing support means native species will now have even more freedom to move across the landscape unimpeded.