Protection - Education - Connection

Our work

We work to protect and enhance the conservation values of this forest and to connect and link people and habitat in our local area.

We actively manage this forest to control weeds and feral animals and to restore degraded areas.

We support education and scientific research and work with our local and the wider community to connect with nature.

Our beliefs

We believe in doing all that we can to help conserve this unique and endangered forest and all of the native species that call this forest home.

We do it for the gang-gang, the platypus, the long-nosed bandicoot and the Slender Tree-fern.

We do it for the generations of people to come after us and to honour those that came before.

Protect this forest

Help protect our gang-gangs and bandicoots, our Slender Tree-ferns and burrowing crayfish.

Help reduce climate change and its impacts by supporting this forest to store carbon.

Help us to protect and connect the remaining tall forests of South Gippsland.

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For Biodiversity

This forest is home to many of our most loved and endangered species, such as the Ganggang, powerful owl, pilotbird and platypus. The forest has regionally significant cool temperate rainforest and one of the largest populations of the critically endangered Slender Tree-fern. The creeks and gullies are home to endangered and rare Spiny crayfish and underground the Strzelecki Burrowing crayfish. Our Mountain ash forests have hollows for our species to safely live and breed, and our rainforests are home to species found nowhere else...

For Climate

Protecting the carbon stored in existing forests is more effective than planting new trees. Research has shown that native forests are far superior to plantations at storing carbon.

With support, this forest will continue to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as our 150 year old trees grow into the 400 year old giants that once covered South Gippsland.

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Forest Stewardship

We support this forest through monitoring, mapping, citizen science, weed and feral animal control, seed collection, habitat restoration and advocacy.

This work is our obligation to the land that sustains us and to future generations. We want to leave this forest in better condition than when we first came here when it is time for the next forest stewards to take over.

Connecting Community

We work to support our threatened species wherever they may travel.
Everything is connected.

We work with community groups including Trust for Nature, Biodiversity Legacy, Ecolands Collective and Landcare to host and support community events.

We work to create connection to our forests and the wonderful species that call it home.

Gippsland Forest Guardians

We support the work of the Gippsland Forest Guardians a new not for profit community organisation.

Protecting Gippsland's forests and getting better landscape wide protection for our forests and threatened species is essential if we are to reverse the decline in our native species populations and looming extinction crisis.

Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge the Brataualung clan of the Gunaikurnai People as the Traditional Owners of the land on which we live and work and pay respect to Elders past, present, and future. We would like to recognise their continuing connection to the land, water, air and sky, acknowledging that sovereignty was never ceded.

We support and are supported by - Biodiversity Legacy, Trust for Nature, Prom Coast Ecolink, Gippsland Threatened Species Action Group, Gippsland Forest Guardians, South Gippsland Shire Council, Friends of Turtons Creek, South Gippsland Landcare Network, South Gippsland Conservation Society, Land Covenantors Victoria and the friends of this forest. Thank you to you all for your support.

We are

Stuart Inchley
Forest steward

Stuart has a strong connection with South Gippsland, spending most of his childhood summers camping with his family at Wilson's Prom. He started out designing and installing off-grid renewable energy systems and has had a lifelong interest in renewable energy and sustainability. He has worked with students from Arnhemland to Richmond teaching science, maths and outdoor education. Stuart now works to protect and enhance this forest and to create links between people, species and forests.

Victoria Johnson
Forest steward

Victoria is passionate about social justice and the environment. She has always been a keen gardener and started out working and wwoofing on organic farms. Victoria’s social work career started in women’s refuges and progressed, via a PhD, to working in social policy and planning at the intersection of social and environmental justice.

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