Buninyong Landscape Planning
| Landscape Plans for Corangamite - Central Goldfields Bioregion - January 2003. The Landscape Plan for the Buninyong Landscape Zone is published as a component of this document (above). Only section relevant to the Buninyong Landscape Zone are shown below. Buninyong Landscape Zone The Landscape Plan for the Buninyong Landscape Zone - January 2003, was produced in collaboration between J. Hengstler - Flora and Fauna, South West Regional Services, DPI; S. Way - Ecology Australia and K. Lowe - Parks Flora and Fauna Division, DSE. |  |
The Central Victorian Uplands bioregion covers 1.2 million hectares extending over 20 local government areas and seven catchment management authorities, stretching from the Grampians and Ararat in the west, to Porepunkah in the east, and from Lurg in the north, to the You Yangs and Lara in the south. It has a unique and relatively early history of European settlement due to the Gold rushes in nearby regions in the 1850’s. The settlers of the Gold rush period were quick to recognise the productive potential of the Central Victorian Uplands’ woodlands and Dry Grassy Forest complexes and, consequently, the landscape has been radically and rapidly changed within the last 150 years. Seventy-eight percent of the region is private freehold dominated by agriculture and there are large blocks of public land including several major National Parks and State Forests. Native vegetation covers 29% of the Central Victorian Uplands and 8.5% of this is occurs in formal reserves. Despite a relatively low percentage of extant native vegetation cover, the Central Victorian Uplands still retains examples of most of its original vegetation types. Four Ecological Vegetation Classes (EVCs) no longer exist in the Central Victorian Uplands. They include: (i) Granitic Hills Woodland/Heathy Dry Forest Mosaic, (ii) Grassy Woodland/Valley Grassy Forest Complex, (iii) Plains Grassy Woodland/Creekline Grassy Woodland/Floodplain Riparian Woodland Mosaic and (iv) Riverina Plains Grassy Woodland/Plains Grassland Mosaic. One flora species (Mountain Swainson-pea, Swainsonia recta) is considered extinct within the Central Victorian Uplands. No fauna species are considered extinct. Forty-eight species in total are considered threatened in the bioregion, including 27 plants, 4 mammals, 5 birds, 2 reptiles, 6 fish and 4 invertebrates.
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This document was last reviewed on 25/10/2011