This project will undertake works to engage landholders in increasing native habitat, especially in the endangered ecological community of White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland. This will be achieved through the use of education activities and smart financial incentives to assist landholders to manage native vegetation for biodiversity outcomes. The project will encourage natural regeneration, replanting local species and revegetating cleared areas to create connectivity in fragmented landscapes of the endangered ecological community. Priority will be given to sites which offer corridor linkages across the landscape, although there is highly fragmented remnant vegetation in the Granite Borders district, so revegetating cleared areas may be necessary in some cases. The project will achieve the revegetation and/or regeneration of approximately 25 hectares of native vegetation and habitat, through the planting of 30,000 native trees, shrubs and groundcover species.

The purpose of this national investment is to implement the regional project specifications developed within the existing Caring for our Country Project (OG08909 - "A Responsible Lead - laying the foundations of the Grains Industry Environmental Plan"). These project specifications have been developed using program logic principles and detail partnerships with Australia's mixed farmers, regional NRM Bodies, farming systems practitioners, state agencies and researchers to deliver the necessary attitude and practice change to ensure achievement of the Industry's Environmental Plan outcomes.

The partnership approach between Caring for our Country and the GRDC will provide the capacity and networks to research, demonstrate and extend to mixed farmers, the adoption, measurement and evaluation of key farming practices that positively impact on whole farm biomass production, wind and hill slope erosion, management of soil carbon and on-farm biodiversity. The program will enhance the decision-making skills of mixed farmers and increase their resilience in the face of changing circumstances using partnership activities around the Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes and Aspirations (KASA) that drive on-farm decision-making and practice adoption.