UNESCO Water Stewards

Our wetlands revegetation project has been recognised by the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves. We are now part of the Western Port Biosphere Reserve which covers an area of 2,142 square kilometres. The Western Port Reserve is one of only five Biosphere Reserves in Australia and is part of a family of 738 reserves across the world all trying to keep nature beautiful and healthy.

The project started 20 years ago and over time has become a 16 acre area of indigenous revegetation and restoration of the original creek line of Tulum creek. A series of interconnecting shallow billabongs runs into a larger billabong. Re-vegetated in stages, areas have gone from bare over grazed paddocks to mature trees and bushes with other areas still being planted out. Natural revegetation has also occurred especially within some of the ephemeral billabongs which are now filled with indigenous water plants. Waterbirds, passerines, swamp wallabies, echidna, long necked terrapin amongst other animals and birds now call this area home.