PHCC chairman Andy Gulliver said the uptake by landholders had exceeded expectations and enabled a better outcome for the overarching Rivers 2 Ramsar project, which aims to create linkages in the landscape to improve wildlife corridors.
“We have support from local landholders for many years and are fortunate to have additional landowners taking opportunities to work with us to enable even better outcomes along this important section of the river,” he said.
“Every landowner represents an additional link in the long chain across the landscape from our upper catchments to our Ramsar-listed wetlands.”
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READ NOWPHCC is leading a landscape scale riverbank erosion control program as part of its Rivers 2 Ramsar initiative that will protect 360ha of foreshore along the Murray River.
The project spans 33 land parcels and 27km of foreshore.
Landowner Cameron Kay said with the help of PHCC, he hoped to repair fences burnt in the January fires.
“We’re able to contain our stock and restrict access to the riverbanks,” he said.
“We are also able to eradicate weeds on the riverbank.
“We are also revegetating the riverbanks with native plant species.”