It builds on an earlier Federal Government project “ Building Capability To Manage GGE Habitat On Farms ”. Victorian Government’s Biodiversity Response Planning Project (BRP) In 2018, a partnership project between DELWP Gippsland, Federation University, Gippsland Water, Latrobe Catchment Landcare Network, and South Gippsland Landcare Network was awarded a Grant under the State Government’s Biodiversity Response Planning Project (BRP) to promote the conservation of four species of threatened invertebrates found in the western end of the Strzelecki Ranges. Working together and managing farms in ways that protect GGE habitat will help ensure that GGEs continue to survive and thrive. This is imperative for threatened species such as the Giant Gippsland Earthworm, where the farmers of South and West Gippsland are the custodians of the majority of its habitat.

Farmers As Custodians It’s not just national parks and nature reserves that are important for protecting our threatened plants and animals farmland also plays a role in biodiversity conservation.

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