East Gippsland Landcare community gets behind Sheoak recovery project

Members of the Helping Hands for Sheoak project handed out young plants to landholders and the local community at the Far East Victorian Landcare (FEVL) Expo, held in Orbost in March 2025.

Many landholders were pleased to receive Sheoaks for planting on their properties. The project builds on the Landcare, Birdlife and Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action's Sheoak recovery works that were undertaken as part of the Black Summer Bushfires response in order to increase stands of Sheoaks across the landscape. Sheoaks are the feed tree of the nationally endangered Glossy Black-cockatoo.

Wildlife Unlimited is partnering with landholders, Biodiversity Legacy, FEVL, Moogji Aboriginal Council and Friends of Mallacoota to undertake plantings on private land and provide future insurance for the population of feed trees Cockatoo.