Our mission is to protect and restore biodiversity on private land across Victoria
Join the Moora Moora Co-operative Community to celebrate protecting 180 ha of beautiful forest on Mount Toolebewong, home to critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum.
Hear from community members, Mount Toolebewong Landcare and Trust for Nature, who will tell the story behind this remarkable conservation achievement. Afternoon tea and optional walking tour included. RSVP essential.
RSVP essential: Peter Cock, Moora Moora Cooperative Community, 0422 426 144
Founded in 1974 on Mount Toolebewong, the Moora Moora Cooperative Community is home to around 60 people who live on the property under a cooperative arrangement. The community includes six hamlets and a farming area.
The property, featuring 80-year-old mountain ash forests, is important habitat for the critically endangered Leadbeater’s Possum, which were found on the property for the first time in 2020.
One hundred and eighty hectares of the community is now protected under a covenant through Trust for Nature.
Supported by the Victorian Government Faunal Emblems project, the covenant protects habitat for Leadbeater’s Possums and other threatened species such as Lace Monitors and Powerful Owls.