Creating Wildlife Corridors in Victoria, Australia
- Morrl Morrl
- VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Wildlife Corridors, Explained
What is a wildlife corridor?
Why Land Life is building habitat corridors?
Land Life Project: Morrl Morrl, Australia
Land Life started working on the project Morrl Morrl back in 2020 with the aim of restoring fragmented ecosystems and lost biodiversity caused by long histories of settlement, agriculture, and mining in the region. By expanding and reconnecting forests through reforestation, we recreate migration corridors essential for local wildlife.
Native and mixed-species:
- 01Gully restoration
- 02Weed clearing
sequestered over 40 years
YEAR OF PLANTING
Reconnecting 3 fragmented National Conservation Reserves
Despite efforts to protect land in Australia, long histories of settlement, agriculture and mining have driven deforestation, leading to fragmented ecosystems and biodiversity loss in the country. Restoring the site Morrl Morrl is the first step in reconnecting 3 of Victoria’s nature conservation reserves. This project extends native forests and will help mitigate pressure on the region's environment, namely habitat loss and erosion. Land Life is taking the first step to recreate essential migration corridors that allow wildlife to travel between the nearby nature conservation reserves.
Benefits Beyond Carbon
Eradicating Soil Erosion
This area of land previously leaked a lot of soil into the river systems. The trees planted are now holding that soil together better, reversing the soil erosion in the region. This has meant that land degradation is slowly being reversed, and the quality of water in local river systems is already improving.
Local Species Return
This project is the first step in restoring three of Victoria’s nature conservation reserves, creating corridors to allow species movement between all three. We've already seen quite a number of bird species using that patch of restored vegetation, and it is producing nectar already, so the first signs that it is functioning as an ecosystem are there.
Who did we work with?
Planting Crews — Land Life works with local planting crews, hired by our local partner, Cassinia Environmental.
Other Land Types
Case studies according to different land types and degradation causes.