Some of Victoria's most spectacular grasslands exist on nondescript roadsides in the heart of the state's western sheep country. Scientists say too many species in the endangered ecosystem face extinction.
Some of Victoria's most spectacular grasslands exist on nondescript roadsides in the heart of the state's western sheep country.
Some wide roadsides, originally set aside to move stock, are burnt most years by the CFA as a bushfire prevention method, Dr Zeeman says. The CFA has unintentionally mimicked the burns that Aboriginal land managers practised over thousands of years, Dr Zeeman says. The tiny Derrinallum Billy Button is so rare that only one population has been found surviving in the wild.By producing seeds and attempting to reintroduce these plants to roadside reserves and private farmland, they hope to restore grassland diversity and increase the populations of these threatened plants.Dr Zeeman says the project is challenging because these grassland plants don't have a persistent seed bank in the soil like many other Australian ecosystems.
Born into a local sheep farming family, Mr Franklin says the grasslands have a way of entering the bloodstream.
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