Swamp Scrub Recovery:

The HDLN together with local landholders and the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has just completed a major project focused on Swamp Scrub and the threatened orchids found within this vegetation community. Please click here to download our fact sheet about Swamp Scrub and find out why it's so important. The Program started in late 2008 and officially concluded on September 30th 2009.

The Program has achieved some amazing outcomes, including discovering new threatened orchid populations and undescribed species, and directly resulting in the protection and enhancement of more than 100ha of Swamp Scrub and associated vegetation.

Watch this space-all the outcomes of the project will be further communicated in the near future.                                                         

                                                                              Swamp Scrub along the Curdies River, Curdievale  

The Recovery Program may have officially finished,  however if you want to know more please contact the HDLN office on 5598 3755.

If you have swamp scrub on your property and wish to conserve it funding for works is available by applying through Biofund. Contact the HDLN for information and help with submitting an application. 

Left: The rare Late Helmet Orchid (right) known from only 6 sites in the world, all in Victoria and South Australia (and all Swamp Scrub communities).

Below: Project manager Laura Weedon (left) with International Student Volunteers, removing weeds along a significant patch of Swamp Scrub near Peterborough.