The Victorian Government has committed $320,000, over three years, to protect the eastern bristlebird (Dasyornis brachypterus) in far East Gippsland.
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The project will help increase numbers of the eastern bristlebird by managing their key threats.
Eastern bristlebirds are restricted to three isolated and threatened populations in Australia. The Howe Flat area near Mallacoota forms part of one of these populations where approximately 70 pairs occur in scrub and heath.
Work has already begun on this project, with monitoring underway to find out the latest estimates of their distribution and abundance in the area.
In 2009, Department of Environment Land Water and Planning staff were excited to find an increase in the known number of pairs at Howe Flat by 20 pairs, a substantial boost to the population. The current monitoring will provide important baseline data before the on-ground works commence.
The project has been funded by the Victorian government’s $34million Biodiversity Response Planning funding for on-ground biodiversity projects, contributing to the targets under ‘Protecting Victoria’s Environment: Biodiversity 2037’.
The eastern bristlebird is one of the 17 Gippsland based projects funded by the Biodiversity Response Planning program.
Biodiversity Response Planning is a new area-based planning approach to biodiversity conservation in Victoria. It is designed to strengthen alignment, collaboration and participation between government agencies, traditional owners, non-government agencies and the community.