PENTLAND Hills Landcare Group has taken out a major prize at this year’s Port Phillip and Western Port Landcare Awards.
The group was presented with the ‘Community Group Caring for Private Land’ award at a celebration at the Melbourne Zoo on Saturday.
The awards celebrate the contribution individuals, groups and schools make to the environment through activities and education.
Since its establishment in 1989, the Pentland Hills group has been involved in small-scale plantings along roadsides and on private property.
In recent times it has focused on establishing a 33-kilometre biolink along the Korkuperrimul and Myrniong creeks to link Lerderderg State Forest with the Werribee River Gorge State Park.
The group is planning a survey of birds along the creeks to use as baseline data to assess the impact of the revegetation project.
