Native Vegetation – Sustaining a Living Landscape

Improving the quality and amount of native vegetation in Victoria is critical to maintaining land and water health. One of the most practical ways we can help is by making sure we have healthy and sustainable native vegetation across the state. Victoria's Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action establishes the strategic direction for the protection, enhancement and revegetation of native vegetation across the landscape. Native Vegetation - Sustaining a Living Landscape [PDF File - 516.0 KB] A new 'Whole-of-landscape' approach

What's new in 2011

November

• New fire exemption for roadsides

• New exemption for clearing vegetation around existing dwellings for bushfire protection
  

• Melbourne Strategic Assessment ("A new approach to biodiversity in Melbourne's growth areas")

September

• BushTender Avoca Plains is open for Expression of Interest
• Native vegetation removal - Permit applicants guide
• Guide for assessment of non-referred planning permit applications to remove native vegetation
  

 July

• Bush Returns - Woodland Tender

Quick links to native vegetation pages

• Biodiversity Precinct Structure Planning Kit

• Interim planning provisions for bushfire protection

• Strategic impact assessment report for Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

• Managing native vegetation on roadsides

• Native vegetation bushfire fact sheets

• Net Gain Accounting - First approximation report

• Native vegetation spatial datasets

• EVC biroegional conservation status

• BushBroker - a native vegetation credit registration trading scheme

• BushTender - a native vegetation incentive scheme