The property is surrounded on half of its boundary by public land which contains healthy riparian vegetation in a high-quality stretch of the Wimmera River corridor. Its biodiversity is rich and has never been permanently grazed which helps to protect a fragile but enormously significant corridor connecting the Mallee with the Wimmera. This corridor is likely to be more significant as climate change effects increase. The property was fenced in 2004 and covenanted in 2022 to ensure it remains protected forever.

The property features Yellow Gum and Black box woodland with a scattering of native cypress-pine. A good shrub layer with several acacia species and others such as hop bush and cassia and a very diverse ground layer of orchids, grasses and herbs. Excellent cryptogrammic crust protects soil properties.

Given the land’s proximity to the Wimmera River, it is likely to have been used by the Wotjobaluk people. There is some evidence of use with a possible scar tree identified on the property by the local Barengi Gadjin Land Council.

There are numerous species of flora that are either endangered or threatened which are now protected on this property. All EVC’s identified on the property are either endangered or depleted. Some of these are:

Ecological vegetation class Conservation status – Murray Mallee Bioregion

Conservation Tier

Plains Woodland – Endangered 0.51

Low Rises Woodland – Endangered 2.8

Riverine Chenopod Woodland – Depleted 1.36

Riverine Grassy Woodland – Depleted 0.66

Flora and Fauna

Buloke Allocasuarina luehmannii – Critically endangered (FFG Act)

Rigid Spider-orchid Caladenia tensa – endangered (EPBC Act)

Floodplain Rustyhood Pterostylis cheraphila – vulnerable (EPBC Act) Endangered (FFG Act)

Hairy Tails Ptilotus erubescens – Critically endangered (FFG Act)

Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus – near threatened