Recovery of Mountain Pygmy-possums in the Victorian Alps

North East Catchment Management Authority, Victoria

Climate change casts a blanket of uncertainty over the Mountain pygmy-possum. Irregular snow seasons and food shortages are increasing threats to a species that is already confined to isolated habitats located on tops of some of Australia’s tallest peaks. Climate change may also be impacting availability of the possum’s main food source, the Bogong moth.

Building community and landholder fire preparedness

Healthy Land & Water, Queensland

Queensland Fire & Biodiversity Consortium

Fire regimes are predicted to change across Australia under climate change. In many areas, bushfires are predicted to become both hotter and more frequent. The Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 burnt an unprecedented amount of land and resulted in devastating losses to both humans and ecosystems.

Riverbank protection for reducing flood damage

North Coast Local Land Services

Floods are among the most devastating natural hazards in Australia. In addition to the toll on human lives and infrastructure, they do extensive damage to landscapes, aquatic environments, riverbanks, and soils.

Restoring salt marsh for coastal protection and blue carbon

NRM South, Tasmania

Coastlines are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More extreme and changing patterns of storms and floods, and underlying patterns of sea level rise, place our coastlines at risk of erosion and repeated inundation.

“The wetland is adjacent to a Ramsar-listed wetland and nature reserve. The restoration should have benefits for the ecology of the whole system. It is also an area of significance to the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community, the palawa of lutruwita”

Jennifer Hemer
Water Program Manager

Bulldozers for Conservation

Murraylands & Riverland Landscape Board, 2021

The vast mallee woodlands north of the South Australian Riverland are home to several Threatened Mallee Bird species. When a number of pastoral grazing properties were retired their pastoral dams were decommissioned so as to divert the water back to its natural flows and catchments.

This project was supported by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Program.

Photographer: Tom Hunt

Mountain Pygmy-possums - Rebuilding The Boulderfields

North East Catchment Management Authority, 2022

The Mountain Pygmy-possum lives in the high country of Victoria and NSW. For some of our Traditional Owners, they are a very important totem species. The typical basalt boulderfields which is their habitat have diminished. Work to maintain and supplement this boulderfield habitat has been undertaken at Mt Little Higginbotham.

Healing Country from Flood and Bushfire

North East Catchment Management Authority, 2024

Konermar Buller Jaithmatang has joined with North East CMA and DEECA to create a relationship focused on caring for country via projects that have been underway since the North East bushfires in 2019. Projects include the installation of woody habitat for native fish, rock beaching, timber revetments, revegetation along river banks and fencing.