Our Past Campaigns
GVEG has been tirelessly working to stand up for our environment for over 25 years. From playing a key role in a number of major environmental campaigns in Victoria, through to dealing with on-going local environmental threats in the Goulburn Valley; GVEG has and continues to have a real impact o the protection of our environment. Read on to find out more about GVEG’s past projects and campaigns.
Olive Legless Lizard (Delma inornata), Rushworth. Photo by Louise Costa
Renewal of Threatened Plant Conservation Projects in the Goulburn Valley 2018-2020
Funded by a Victorian Government Biodiversity On-ground Action Grant – Community and Volunteer BOA2017CA373
More than twenty years ago GVEG undertook two major assessments of the conservation status of flora and fauna in the Eastern Northern Plains of Victoria, publishing two reports:
In the years since, many of the recommended changes to conservation status have been achieved, notably the creation of Barmah National Park, Lower Goulburn National Park, Warby-Ovens National Park and Broken-Boosey State Park.
Swainsona murrayana, Slender Darling-pea. Photo by Sally Mann
As well, GVEG initiated practical management actions to protect threatened plants at about dozen sites.
This project aimed to assess the effectiveness of these particular actions but also to assess the changes in status of threatened plant populations more broadly over two and a half decades in response to changed land tenure and changed management. We focussed on 22 sites assessed in the initial survey that had the richest threatened* flora or which had the only population of a threatened species.
The RICHEST sites for threatened flora are
Three Chain and Kreeck Road reserves, Tungamah – with 12 threatened species and 8 regionally significant species*
Katamatite, Broken-Boosey State Park - 9 threatened, 8 regionally significant
Youanmite Nature Conservation Reserve – 8 threatened, 5 regionally significant
Rowan Swamp Wildlife Reserve – 8 threatened, 1 regionally significant
Picola, Nathalia Nature Conservation Reserve, unused road reserve & disused rail reserve – 5 threatened, 4 regionally significant
Galts Bridge, Numurkah Nature Conservation Reserve – 5 threatened, 1 regionally significant
Sites with the ONLY KNOWN POPULATIONS in the eastern northern plains of a threatened species are
Murchison Golf Course – with Murchison Leek Orchid Prasophyllum sp. aff. petilum – a globally unique population (possibly extinct)
Boosey Boulevarde, Broken-Boosey State Park – Amulla Eremophila debile – the only known location for this species in Victoria
Galts Bridge, Numurkah Nature Conservation Reserve – Southern Swainson-pea Swainsona behriana
Dookie-Katamatite rail reserve (disused) – Straw Wallaby-grass Rytidosperma richardsonii
Sites with NATIONALLY ENDANGERED species are
Rowan Swamp Wildlife Reserve – Small Scurf-pea Cullen parvum
James Bridge Streamside Reserve, Narioka – Small Scurf-pea Cullen parvum
Caniambo Nature Conservation Reserve - Small Scurf-pea Cullen parvum
Picola, Nathalia Nature Conservation Reserve – Slender Darling-pea Swainsona murrayana
Calotis lappulacea, Yellow Burr-daisy. Photo by Sally Mann
All the 22 sites support threatened vegetation communities listed in the Australian Government’s EPBC Act.
Most are Grey Box (Eucalyptus microcarpa) Grassy Woodlands and Derived Native Grasslands of South-eastern Australia which are ENDANGERED.
Three Chain & Kreeck Roads, Murchison Golf-course, Picola (Nathalia Nature Conservation Reserve), Barwo (Nathalia Nature Conservation Reserve) and Numurkah Rifle Range (Numurkah Nature Conservation Reserve) all have Natural Grasslands of the Murray Valley Plains which are CRITICALLY ENDANGERED.
For further information on the project, including information on population assessments, site assessments, management recommendations, outcomes and ongoing actions; a PDF can be downloaded here:
An informative brochure about the threatened plants found in the project can be downloaded as a PDF here: