The Central highlands Alliance is comprised of professionals volunteering their time and skills for the protection of native forest biodiversity and Melbourne’s water catchments in the Victorian Central Highlands.
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Projects we manage aid in the recognition of all of Victoria’s threatened and rare plant and animal communities. These include multi-aged forests, rainforest, alpine woodlands, old-growth forest and Melbourne’s water catchments. Our work has prevented logging roads from dissecting National Parks and destroying pristine forest and animal habitat. We are working with Government and eminent scientists on the protection of Mt Baw Baw and its sites of global zoological significance.
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Your money pays for scientific documents, tours and campaign materials that underpin the protection agenda for the Victorian Central Highlands. Specifically we are working with tourism industry on the implementation of a 5-day Tall-trees walk from Healesville to Lake Eildon. We are building a forest reserve system that will extinction proof many of Victoria’s key species such as the Sooty Owl, Powerful Owl, Leadbeaters Possum (Victoria’s faunal emblem), Spot tailed quoll and Baw Baw frog. We are campaigning for an end to legislation that allows Melbourne’s water catchments to be logged, causing Melbournians a loss of 1000 litres of water per second.
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Just Northeast of Melbourne begins the 1.1 million hectares known as the Central Highlands. Areas such as Lake Mountain, Marysville, Eildon, Yarra Valley, Baw Baw and Walhalla all reside in it parameters. Sites of Global significance in the Central Highlands forests are being woodchipped and sent overseas. These areas are severely damaged from logging. The Baw Baw frog has been red-listed by the IUCN as “critically endangered” and it occurs nowhere else in the world, it is Victoria’s only endemic frog yet its habitat is subject to woodchipping. The Victorian Government makes as little as 11 cents a tonne off this woodchip resource yet it is causing an unprecedented toll on our forests, animals and water supply. Our water catchments are losing 30 billion litres of water per year due to the logging of them. That’s equal to 22 days of Melbourne’s total water usage or 194,300 Melbournians yearly water supply.
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TCHA is a registered charity, all donations over $2 are tax deductible. Donations may be forwarded by cheque to the address below:
If you have a request for how you wish the money to be spent and a report on that process, please include your details and we would be happy to fulfill you wishes.
Direct debit at:
Bendigo Bank
The Central Highlands Alliance
BSB 633000
Account #: 120179395
Please add your name and email address in the "Reference" section of the deposit form.
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