The Euroa Arboretum works with a variety of partners and supporters.
Take a moment to find out more about the work they do in our region and how we work together.
Taungurung Land & Waters Council
Taungurung Traditional Owners partnership
In 1993 when Euroa Arboretum was founded, it was pretty much a clapped out sheep grazing paddock and storage depot for heavy machinery and road materials for VicRoads. Only a few trees and some pockets of native grass remained from its original diverse grassy woodland – rich in bush foods and medicine plants. In the early days of the Arb, restoration focused on replacing trees and shrubs. In more recent times, we have focused on restoring the native, diverse ground layer. Having been a landscape managed by Traditional Owners for millennia, it was natural that we looked to Taungurung, the custodians of the land, in how to manage the landscape and return the
grassland.
We have worked alongside Taungurung Land and Waters Council for many years –bringing science, cultural land management practices and a little bit of ingenuity together to restore the grasslands. We are proud to partner with Taungurung Traditional Owners – supporting their young people to learn and heal country, to share plant knowledge and to bring visitors to the Arb to learn from the Taungurung community about First Nations culture, bush foods and stories.
It is our great honour and privilege to walk together, restoring country.
About
Taungurung Land and Waters Council (TLaWC) was registered 16 July 2009 as the Registered Aboriginal Party that represents the interests of the Taungurung people. TLaWC is the corporate representative and ‘face’ of the Taungurung people and serves to uphold their interests with respect to culture and country.Contact
Website: www.taungurung.com.au/contact-us/ Taungurung Cultural ExperiencesGoulburn Valley Water
Goulburn Valley Water partnership
Our partnership with Goulburn Valley Water began in 2022 after GVWater became aware of the lack of available indigenous seed to support large scale landscape restoration. Avenel and Euroa Waste Water Management Facilities had land surplus to their needs, and GVWater offered the Arboretum the opportunity for a cheap, long term land lease. By 2026, 39 hectares will be planted to seed orchards on GV Water land, allowing large scale, genetically diverse and climate adapted seed harvest at a scale not achieved before locally. We are grateful for the opportunity to make good on our motto – ‘bringing back the bush’.
About
Contact
Website: www.gvwater.vic.gov.auGoulburn Broken CMA
From the earliest inception of the Arb, the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority have been a great supporter. We are lucky to have strong connections with many of the CMA staff – working together to implement workshops, training, on ground works and surveys. Our plants and seed are disseminated across the Goulburn Broken catchment for many of the revegetation projects each year.
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority support us with funding various projects, and partner with us in managing the Goulburn Broken Indigenous Seedbank.
About
Through its leadership and partnerships the Goulburn Broken CMA will improve the resilience of the Catchment’s people, land, biodiversity and water resources in a rapidly changing environment.Contact
Website: www.gbcma.vic.gov.au/Longwood Plains CMN
Longwood Plains Conservation Management Network committee, facilitator and landholders have worked tirelessly across the Longwood Plains district, (Seymour to Murchison to Violet Town) to revegetate private farmland. Focusing on expanding roadside vegetation and linking creek lines and remnant vegetation, Longwood Plains CMN have transformed the plains over many years to increase landscape connectivity of native vegetation.
The Arb proudly support Longwood Plains CMN with plants and seed supply, and often a friendly chat with the folk that drop by for advice.
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Contact
Susan Sleigh – Facilitator susansleigh8@gmail.com Website: www.longwoodplainscmn.orgStrathbogie Ranges Conservation
Strathbogie Ranges Conservation (SRC) is an active network often partnering with The Arb and working for biodiversity outcomes in the Strathbogie Ranges. We love sharing workshops, art activities and festivals with SRC – collaborating in connecting people to nature.
Strathbogie Ranges Conservation works actively to protect the special places of the ‘Bogies’ – from the perched bogs, rocky outcrops, riparian areas to the forests. Project work often targets endangered or vulnerable species of flora and fauna and monitors how climate change is impacting on local habitats and biodiversity.
The Arb loves to support Strathbogie Ranges Conservation in providing plants, seed and advice to landholders that drop by for a chat.
About
The Strathbogie Ranges Conservation Management Network (SRCMN or Strathbogie Ranges Conservation) was formed in early 2011 and has been going strong ever since. The SRCMN works with a variety of partners (landholders, groups, Agencies) to tackle all sorts of conservation, biodiversity and land management issues, but is focusing on the most threatened ecosystems in the Ranges, including our precious wetlands (springsoaks & bogs), rocky outcrops and high conservation value forests.Contact
www.strathbogieranges.org.au/contact-us/Friends of the Sevens
Friends of the Sevens formed in 2012 and work actively along the Seven Creeks in the Euroa township. Working along the billabongs and walking tracks where the mowers couldn’t reach, the Arb bush crew worked to control weeds and whipper snip, supporting the local community to plant thousands of plants over the past 11 years.
In addition, Friends of the Sevens have conducted bird counts, held workshops, carp catching, invertebrate counts, platypus watches, engaged local schools and most recently, implemented the construction of the Rockies Bridge with local Strathbogie Council.
You will often find the Gladys group – an offshoot volunteer group of the Arb – on the creek each week weeding, pruning or planting. The Arb are strong supporters – still sending the bush crew in for the heavy lifting jobs and providing plants and advice as needed.
Brady and Kibble
Brady and Kibble Transport in Euroa is a generous partner to the Euroa Arboretum.
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Zoos Victoria
In 2024, Zoos Victoria trialled the first translocation of endangered Keys Matchstick Grasshopper to the Arb with 100 individuals released in 2 sites. The Arb, with our daisy rich grassland restoration and strong partnership with Taungurung Traditional Owners and local community, was seen as a suitable site to grow this little population. We continue to work with Zoos Victoria in monitoring our little grasshoppers at the Arb, but also using Keys Matchstick Grasshopper as a flagship species to bring more grassland areas back to cool burning management and species enrichment.
Read more about Fighting Extinction and the Key Stick Grasshopper
Natural Resources Conservation Trust
In 2024 the Arboretum received funding support from the Natural Resources Conservation Trrust to establish a new seed orchard (Avenel).
The Trust’s stage 1 investment is part of a long-term strategy developed by Euroa Arboretum that aims to:
- Establish 20 hectares of new seed production areas across 3 sites.
- Build a new seedbank facility at Euroa Arboretum to increase efficiencies and storage.
- Upgrade existing intensive seed production facilities at Euroa Arboretum.
About
As one of Victoria’s oldest conservation organisations, the Natural Resources Conservation League has a long history of effective action across the state. The Natural Resources Conservation Trust was established as the grant making arm of the Natural Conservation League. The League and Trust work closely together, guided by separate Boards.Contact
https://nrct.au/contact/Strathbogie Shire Council
The Strathbogie Shire Council has provided access to land to establish & maintain a new seed orchard (Wickets Hill).
About
Strathbogie Shire is bordered to the east by the Strathbogie Ranges and to the west by the Nagambie Lakes district. The area is renowned for its natural beauty, agricultural production, horse studs, wineries, restaurants, local produce, rich history and much more.Contact
Contact Strathbogie Shire CouncilGreater Shepparton City Council
The Greater Shepparton Ciry Council has provided access to land to expand plantings within an existing seed orchard (Mooroopna Sandhills).
The first Greater Shepparton City Council was elected in March 1997, following local government amalgamations in Victoria.
Contact
Greater Shepparton City Council 90 Welsford Street / Locked Bag 1000, Shepparton VIC 3632, Australia
Email council@shepparton.vic.gov.auTel 03 5832 9700
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Bushbank funding to establish a new seedbank , expand seed orchard in Avenel, establish new seed orchard in Euroa and Wickets Hill
