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WETLANDS AND RIVERS TO PORT PHILLIP BAY PARKS AND RESERVES WITH REMNANT VEGETATION

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White-Faced Heron Superb Fairy-Wren Did you know ? How can you be How do wetlands Why a re Wildlife Corridors help keep in volved ? 2 & open spaces importan t ? • Since European settlement, over /3 of Victoria’s wetlands have been drained to make way for mining, our water clean ? farming and urbanisation For People Clean up Australia Day Wetlands play a huge role in filtering stormwater run- Banyule Council encourages volunteers to take part in • Over 65% of Victoria’s forest and woodland cover off, as fringing, indigenous wetland plants absorb excess For Animals Recent research is showing that due to increasing (some 12 million ha) has been cleared for similar urbanisation, sedentary lifestyles and the advent of Australia’s largest community participation event, Clean nutrients, stabilise banks and filter water as it runs into Up Australia Day, held on the first Sunday of March. We purposes the wetlands. Once in the wetland system, the flowing Wildlife corridors provide green freeways of natural screen technologies, humans are suffering from conditions vegetation for native animals to travel in, through and such as ‘nature deficit disorder’. Banyule’s open spaces have a number of sites across the municipality so check • Banyule has less than 10% of its original vegetation cover water becomes still, allowing pollutants, nutrients and the council website closer to Clean Up Australia Day sediment to settle on the bottom. UV light from the out of Banyule. They link patches of intact remnant provide an opportunity for residents to redress this • There are 15 vegetation communities in Banyule, divided vegetation with other areas. Native animals and birds imbalance and spend time reconnecting with the natural to find one near you or go to the Clean Up Australia sun further purifies the water. When the wetland Day website: http://www.cleanup.org.au/au/ into 35 sub communities, with 28 considered threatened overflows in the next flood event, water flowing out use the habitat provided by the corridors to shelter world away from the fast pace of modern life. By joining their movements from predators, to provide a food local “friends of” groups, residents have the opportunity Banyule City Council works hard to retain and maintain into creeks and rivers is cleaner than when it entered http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZjeKMaL8C2s/VCv9xob7UBI/AAAAAAAAdGc/GhjX4BoK_Ko/s1600/Creek%2B1.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZjeKMaL8C2s/VCv9xob7UBI/AAAAAAAAdGc/GhjX4BoK_Ko/s1600/Creek%2B1.jpgsource while they are on the move and importantly, to take action to maintain and restore these natural spaces relatively large areas of open, natural spaces which include the system. Some of Banyule’s wetlands can be found at to nest and breed in the hollows of larger trees. while connecting with like-minded people in their local area. parks, reserves and a series of wetlands that provide Banyule Flats in Viewbank and on the Ivanhoe floodplain National Tree Day habitat for a variety of native Australian and migratory of the Yarra River. birds and native animals. Natural spaces allow people National Tree Day and Schools Tree Day combine to maintain a connection with the natural world which to make Australia’s biggest community tree-planting is important for their health and wellbeing and for a and nature care event. These are special days for all balanced lifestyle. Australians to help out by planting and caring for native trees and shrubs to improve the environment in which they live. National Tree Day started in 1996 and since then more than 3 million people have planted 21 million seedlings! Banyule City Council’s Bushland Management Team Ban yule’s works in conjunction with local friends groups to host several National Tree Day sites across the municipality to plant not only trees, but other indigenous plant species Utility Corridors to add to the natural beauty of our environment and provide habitat for our native fauna. & Habitat Links To find a site near you, contact Banyule City Council or your local friends group or go to the National Tree Ban yule’s Waterwa ys Plen ty River Yarra River Day website: http://treeday.planetark.org/ & Wildlife Corridors A major tributary of the Yarra River arising from the Mount Known to the indigenous Wurundjeri people as Birrurung, Disappointment escarpment of the Great Dividing Range, the the Yarra River forms Melbourne’s most significant wildlife Friends Groups active Plenty River links important natural habitat remnants north corridor. The river links natural habitats in the inner suburbs of Banyule at Plenty Gorge Parklands and the forested hills (including links to Port Phillip Bay) with the extensive in Banyule reserves These are areas of retained open space because of Darebin Creek around Kinglake National Park with the Yarra River corridor. mountain forests of the Yarra Ranges National Park. utilities such high voltage powerlines and railway tracks. Features include continuous vegetation along the length of Above the Plenty River, the floodplain narrows and the Banyule’s vast parks, reserves and wildlife corridors are They provide connections between catchments. Arising in the north near Woodstock, the creek flows south the river, rocky escarpments (eg. Partingtons Flat) supporting land rises steeply to the dry Silurian hilltops of Briar Hill, jointly managed by the Bushland Management Unit, through farmland, and enters Banyule at Bundoora, meeting uncommon plants and animals, large old River Red Gums Greenhills, St Helena and Diamond Creek with their Environmental Planning team and the various Friends The Hurstbridge railway line forms a significant remnant the Yarra River at Alphington. The Creek links important and Environmental groups. Throughout the year there and planted vegetation corridor. It acts as an open near the confluence with the Yarra and large old Manna characteristic Box-Stringybark Eucalypt Forest cover. remnant and restored habitat in Bundoora Park, LaTrobe Gums further upstream. are ongoing projects that need volunteer contributions. space link from the Darebin Creek, then running parallel University and Darebin Parklands with the Yarra River Corridor. Features include extensive wetlands along the Yarra These range from tree planting days, ongoing weed with Salt Creek, crossing the Plenty River and then floodplain, large old River Red Gums and an extensive management, fauna monitoring through to becoming an The Darebin Creek Valley is at the extreme eastern edge Local habitat links associated with the the Diamond Creek in the Shire of Nillumbik. There is network of public open space. active member of one of these groups. remnant and planted vegetation for most of the length of the volcanic plains north of Melbourne. Around 1 million Plenty River within Banyule “ We a re all visitors of the railway corridor. years ago, lava flows from volcanoes to the north filled up the river and creek valleys of the region. The creek now The Northern Foothills extends over hills in residential Local habitat links associated with the Darebin Parklands Association Inc. to this time, this place. The Powerline Local Habitat Link is an open space link dissects the basalt rocks and soils created by these lava flows. areas and reserves throughout Lower Plenty, Montmorency, Yarra River within Banyule www.dpa.org.au from the Darebin Creek in the City of Darebin through Briar Hill, Greenhills and St Helena. Remnant eucalypts Bundoora, Watsonia, Heidelberg West, Heidelberg Heights Salt Creek cuts through the hills above the Yarra. Salt Bundoora and Yallambie, crossing the Plenty River and such as Yellow Gum and Yellow Box are distinctive features. Friends of Banyule We a re just passin g through. and Ivanhoe West sit on the broad basalt flats above the Creek. Creek rises in Gresswell Forest, travels past Harry Pottage running through the Heidelberg Golf Course and Lower There is significant bushland within Andrew Yandell Habitat www.friendsofbanyule.org/home.aspx Reserve in Macleod and is piped underground for most of Plenty to the Yarra River. Features include remnant Red Gum Woodland, some Reserve, St Helena Bush Reserve, Brown’s Nature Reserve Our purpose here is to observe, its length. The natural creek opens out through Macleod Park Friends of Darebin Creek areas of remnant Kangaroo Grass Grassland, rocky outcrop and Partington’s Flat supporting endangered species such as and Rosanna Parklands before Banyule City Council taps into PO Box 5036, Alphington 3078 escarpments above the creek and wetland systems within the Eltham Copper Butterfly, Emerald Greenhood and Swift to lea rn, to grow, to love ... the pipe under Grove Road at De Winton Reserve, the site www.friendsofdarebincreek.org.au LaTrobe University. Parrot. The eucalypt canopy through residential areas in the of another Stormwater Harvesting Project. Water is stored Northern Foothills links the Plenty and Yarra catchments. and then we return home.“ Local habitat links associated with under the De Winton car park, cleaned and used to irrigate Friends of Montmorency Bushlands Yallambie Creek rises in Greensborough and flows east the reserve. Salt Creek flows through Heidelberg and enters Pam Rowley 03 9439 1853 Aboriginal Proverb the Darebin Creek to join the Plenty River at Yallambie. The creek links important the Yarra at Warringal Park. [email protected] Donaldson’s Creek, now an underground barrel drain areas of natural habitat such as Simpson Army Barracks and Banyule Creek rises within the Red Gum Grassy for most of its length, has some remnant indigenous trees reserves in Streeton Views Estate. Large old River Red Gums Friends of Plenty River Woodland at the Simpson Army Barracks just below such as River Red Gum and Yellow Box and many planted and the largest stand of the rare Studley Park Gum occur here. Kevin Ley 03 9435 3840 native trees that provide habitat for local birds and possums. Greensborough Road and enters the Yarra at Banyule Flats Yallambie to Bundoora Plains – Large old River Red Reserve, the overflow feeding Banyule Swamp. Friends of Salt Creek and Associated Yallambie – Bundoora Plains is made up of remnant Gums scattered throughout residential areas and reserves Ivanhoe Valley Creek is a short water course draining Parklands indigenous and planted Eucalypts linking Gresswell Forest in Watsonia and Bundoora are the key feature of this local Cross Section of a Ban yule Swamp into the Yarra at Wilson’s Reserve marked by River Red Louise Muller 0403 810 004 and Simpson Army Barracks, both significant habitat reserves. habitat link. They link remnant bushland from the Simpson Gums and Silver Wattle. Email: [email protected] Very old River Red Gums in Binnak Park and Parade College Army Barracks in Yallambie to Gresswell Forest in Bundoora. provide hollows for birds. There are remnant indigenous and The hollows in the ancient gums provide nest sites for birds, Wilson’s Reserve and Chelsworth Park is the third Friends of St Helena Bush Reserve planted native trees throughout residential areas and in parks bats and possums. Stormwater Harvesting Project site in Banyule. Stormwater Lawrie Rigg 0420 363 142 and reserves such as Warrawee, Yulong, Loyola and Greenwood. is diverted from the The Boulevard drain, cleaned, stored Email: [email protected] Sweetwater Creek, a short, natural tributary of underground and used to irrigate Chelsworth Park sporting Banksia Street – A short corridor brings birds up from the Plenty River, flows through residential backyards in fields and Ivanhoe Golf Course, ensuring water flowing into Friends of Wilson Reserve 30cm the Darebin Creek at Cyril Cummins Reserve through Greensborough. Its steep banks support remnant Valley the Yarra is cleaner. Robert Bender 60cm Ford Park and into the avenue of Red Ironbark along Forest with Swamp Gum, Yellow Box and Blackwood. There Banksia Street. It continues through open space associated Email: [email protected] 90cm are remnants of the dense shrubby layer with Prickly Moses, The Eucalypt cover of the Northern Foothills with the old Banksia Secondary College site, Banyule City 120cm Snowy Daisy-bush, Hazel Pomaderris, Burgan and Sweet connects the Plenty and Yarra catchments. Friends of Andrew Yandell Habitat Reserve Council’s Transfer Station Operations Depot, the grounds Bursaria. 150cm Glyceria australis of the Repatriation Campus of the Austin Hospital and Donna 03 9444 7620 www.facebook.com/Friends-of-Andrew-Yandell- Azolla pinnata Triglochin procerum Rememberance Park. Greensborough Valley Creek rises in Binnak Park with Darebin Creek its ancient remnant eucalypts, replanted shrubby habitat and Waterway Habitat-Reserve-788962387857990/timeline/ Wolffia australiana Neopaxia australasica Southern Road – An avenue of Red Ironbark/Spotted and Wildlife Lemna disperma constructed wetlands. The Creek flows underground through Corridor Ranunculus inundatus Gum runs from the Darebin Creek at Olympic Park along stormwater drains and opens out into a lake at Kalparrin Plenty River Friends of the Yarra Valley Parks Vallisneria australis Southern Road and links with Malahang Reserve and Shelley Waterway Gaham Patterson (President) 03 9432 0163 Myriophyllum crispatum Gardens before it drains into the Plenty River. Kalparrin Gardens and Wildlife Park. www.yvfriends.org.au Juncus flavidus is the site of one of Banyule City Council’s unique, award Corridor Heidelberg West Industrial Estate, winning Stormwater Harvesting Projects, which captures and Email: [email protected] Persicaria decipiens Kingsbury Drive and Crissane Street contain mature cleans stormwater before it enters the Plenty River. Council Yarra River Waterway Warringal Conservation Society “Look deep in to na ture, remnant River Red Gums and Wattles and provides open uses the treated water for the irrigation of adjacent ovals and and Wildlife Corridor www.warringal.org.au space habitat. parks, saving potable drinking water and money. & then you will understand everythin g better.”Albert Einstein