Flora & faunaAt 880 hectares, the Holden Proving ground is one of the largest privately owned patches of remnant vegetation in south-west Gippsland region.
Bass Coast Landcare Network worked with Holden Proving Ground staff for many years to monitor and manage the site, which contains eight ecological vegetation classes: wet heathland, lowland forest, heathy woodland, swampy riparian woodland, grassy woodland, riparian scrub and swampy woodland. The site is especially valuable because it’s surrounded by a high fence designed to keep out snooping journalists but which also kept out feral animals. The BCLN study group identified habitat suitable for 27 threatened or endangered species:
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