Burradoo Australia Restoration Project

About our Burradoo reforestation site in Victoria, Australia

Ecological Vegetation Class: EVC 76: Low Rises Grassy Woodland/Alluvial Terraces mosaic | EVC 61: Box Ironbark Forest
Bioregion: Goldfields

Burradoo is another solid part of a larger biolink that many environmental organisations and companies are building together in Central Victoria, down in the south-east of the Australian continent.

This area has been selected as the spot in Victoria where the biggest ecological gains can be made by filling cleared parts of the landscape with new native vegetation.

Site objective

Carbon sequestration: 11,490.17 tCO2 40 years

Methodology: Registration and validation of this ARR project is under VERRA's Verified Carbon Standard (VCS program)

Investing in revegetating this area is one of the best possible actions your organisation can undertake to assist the plants and animals that still live here, which are increasingly coming under pressure from the consequences of climate change and invasive species. Their remaining habitat just isn't large enough, or connected enough to hang on, let alone thrive.

Now, with our joint efforts, we can relieve that pressure, reconnect fragmented landscapes, and generate a significant increase in nectar production, the basis of the food chain in this part of the world.

Burradoo has as an added bonus that the Eucalyptus species that make up the bulk of the canopy here are all relatively fast-growing, carbon-dense hardwood trees, and our plantings here will therefore become an excellent carbon sink.

An on-title conservation agreement with Trust for Nature.Opens in a new tab. ensures in-perpetuity conservation management and protection of the biodiversity across the property.

About the restoration

Fifty-one hectares of the site were restored in the 2025 Planting Season using a combination of direct seeding and hand planting. The site received fantastic rainfall around this time, giving the project a great start!

This project is funded by the Victorian Government’s $77 million BushBank Program and Land Life. The BushBank program is restoring more than 20,000 hectares of land across Victoria to create healthy wildlife habitat and capture carbon. Land Life's restoration partner Cassinia Environmental is the lead delivery partner for BushBank.

Biodiversity and community co-benefits

This project is being seeded and planted on the traditional lands of the Jaara First Peoples. A long-term goal is to reintroduce traditional land management practices at Burradoo. For this reason, a continual conversation is taking place with the Traditional Owners on how to make this a reality.

The Australian landscape has evolved over tens of thousands of years with people actively managing fire, animals, and food supplies. Land Life acknowledges that in Australia, land can't be restored properly without these traditional practices returning.

Bird species that benefit from our Burradoo project include the increasingly rare Crested Bellbird, the elusive Painted Buttonquail, the critically endangered Swift Parrot and the hard-to-find Barking Owl.

Burradoo is an exciting new addition to the LandLife portfolio, and we're keen to show you the improvements we're making here over the coming years and decades.