FAQs and conditions of entry

You can provide feedback by:

• Completing the Expression of Interest on this website
• Mail to: PO Box 1618, Bairnsdale, 3875
• Email to: feedback@egipps.vic.gov.au
• In person at any of our service centres and libraries

This is a pilot project. The Expression of Interest process helps us understand the number of property owners who are wanting a free native vegetation management plan. 

The project aims to support landholders to increase understanding and capacity to enhance biodiversity on private freehold land. 

If successful, your details will be provided to a third-party contractor (botanist/ecologist) who will undertake the native vegetation management plan. 

You will be required to meet on site and provide access so the contractor can undertake the assessment. 

In the following weeks after the site visit, you will be provided a copy of the landholder management plan for native vegetation.

Please note: a condition of this project is that Council will contact you in the future to evaluate the outcomes of the project and seek feedback.

East Gippsland Shire Council collects your information during the expression of interest process. The information you provide will be used for the Landholder Native Vegetation Management Plan Pilot Project, and will remain completely confidential.

The information submitted during the expression of interest process will be visible to Council for the specific purpose of choosing participants for the native vegetation management plan pilot project.

If successful, your details will be provided to a third-party contractor (botanist/ecologist) who will undertake the native vegetation management plan. You will be required to meet on site and provide access so the contractor can undertake the assessment. 

In the following weeks after the site visit, you will be provided a copy of the landholder management plan for native vegetation.

Please note a condition of this project is that Council will contact you in the future to evaluate the outcomes of the project and seek feedback.

For more information on Council’s Privacy Policy, please visit the EGSC Privacy Policy link at the bottom of this page or email feedback@egipps.vic.gov.au if you have any questions.

If successful, your details will be provided to a third-party contractor (botanist/ecologist) who will undertake the native vegetation management plan. 

You will be required to meet on site and provide access so the contractor can undertake the assessment. 

In the following weeks after the site visit, you will be provided a copy of the landholder management plan for native vegetation.

Please note a condition of this project is that Council will contact you in the future to evaluate the outcomes of the project and seek feedback.

Isolated patches between 2 to 15 hectares are eligible only.

This is a pilot project, for a limited number of properties.

Applications will be assessed on the following criteria:

• Size of patch
• Significance of native vegetation type and rarity
• Demonstration or evidence of previous conservation practices
• Willingness to understand and improve conservation outcomes
• Proximity to significant high quality native vegetation

Likely elements included in the management plan are:

• Maps of Ecological Vegetation Class onsite.
• Recommended actions to support landholder-based management of native vegetation.
• Highlight presence of rare and threatened species, documented, map and seek permission to add to VBA.
• Consider habitat connectivity of between native vegetation located on the property and broader landscape.
• Recorded photo points for visual representation of change over time and provide instructions to Landholder for ongoing monitoring and frequency.
• Lists and contact details of supportive agencies for private land management including Landcare, catchment management authority, Trust for Nature, Greening Australia etc.
• Cultural heritage considerations for the property.

Excluded from the vegetation management plans:

• The report will not use Habitat Hectare methodology or class vegetation on the basis that this information could form part of any planning applications for its removal.
• Management actions that are recommended are not guaranteed to receive further funding from Council.
• Promotion of any legislative protection mechanisms will not be provided.
• Provision of any chemical advice – refer to agricultural salesperson or Agronomist.
• Legislated planning advice is excluded i.e., in relation to fuel load management or native vegetation removal.