KEEP OUR BIRDS COMING HOME - SUSTAINING MERRI CREEK HABITAT
Birds are a wonderful and vital part of the Merri Creek environment.
We invite you to help our birds to come home and thrive in their natural bushland environment by giving a tax-deductible donation to support the vital work of Merri Creek Management Committee.
Your donation will help preserve environments where birds have made their home, and create new habitat to attract more birds back to the creek environs.
The Challenge of Restoring Merri Creek Habitat for Birds and Animals
Merri Creek stretches from the Great Dividing Range to the Yarra River. It flows from foothill forests, through farmland, rocky gorges, rare native grasslands, between quarries and factories and houses in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
After 170 years of degradation the restoration work of the last 30 years has made a huge difference, but there's a lot of work still to do.
The return of the Sacred Kingfisher is celebrated by a festival, but many other birds as well as animals are returning to Merri Creek thanks to the revegetation and remnant vegetation protection works which have been carried out.
Improving the water quality of the Creek remains a challenge requiring revegetation of the Creek banks in rural areas, restoration of wetlands or creation of new ones, and better management of the urban catchments.
Completing the habitat corridor linking the foothill forests to the grasslands in the middle catchments and through the suburbs to the Yarra is a huge task.