By Oliver Lees
A new video has dropped highlighting efforts to connect unique landscape areas in the Macedon Ranges.
Trentham-based company Warm Eggs Productions, along with the Macedon Ranges council and Melbourne Water, helped Newham Landcare to create the four-minute video explaining the development of the Cobaw Biolink.
The video documents restoration work that has been ongoing between Macedon Regional Park and the Cobaw Ranges, to ensure dispersal of native flora and fauna across the area.
Established in 2004, Newham & District Landcare Group has been working on the biolink project for over a decade. These efforts include waterway protection, weed and pest control, revegetation protection and grassland enhancement.
Ecologist Karl Just features in the video and said the work is critical to preserving the environment.
“There’s already a high level of diversity existing in the area, the idea is to strengthen that and increase the diversity over time,” he said.
“You need to have connectivity so fauna can grow between those landscapes.”
The Cobaw Biolink is one of nine biolinks within Macedon Ranges council’s biodiversity strategy, which was created in 2018 to protect threatened species.
Council’s planning and environment director Angela Hughes said the area contains high quality vegetation on both public and private land.
“We’re proud to support this video which showcases the hard work and achievements of the Newham Landcare group and private landholders,” Ms Hughes said.
“Protecting existing vegetation and creating connectivity in the biolink will help native plants and animals survive and adapt to climate change.”
You can watch the video at: vimeo.com/528031290
