MCMC has gained $81,236 from a Federal Govt Caring For Our Country Grant to enhance six sites of threatened vegetation and $20,000 from a Melbourne Water Community Grant to Friends of Merri Creek to consolidate remnant and restored vegetation at Galada Tamboore .

MCMC was successful in gaining $81,236 from the Federal Govt Caring For Our Country Open Grants Program in a highly competitive field of very worthwhile applications. This funding will enable MCMC’s parkland management team to accelerate the restoration of the Merri Habitat Corridor by enhancing six sites of threatened vegetation.

Target sites will include Merri Creek at Rushwood Drive Reserve and Aitken Creek in Craigieburn, Moomba Park in Fawkner, Edgars Creek in Coburg, Merri Park in Northcote and parklands in Clifton Hill upstream of the Merri’s confluence with the Yarra.

Local communities will be engaged through weed management workshops at Edgars Creek, planting and an indigenous cultural workshop at Aitken Creek, Safari tours of local parklands at Moomba Park, community planting and school activities in Northcote, and a planting at Clifton Hill.

Galada Tamboore has received $20,000 to consolidate remnant and restored vegetation from a Melbourne Water Community Grant to Friends of Merri Creek. The ongoing community involvement in management of Galada Tamboore will be celebrated during a spring planting.

Look out for MCMC’s 20th anniversary planting on 31 May.