Bush for Birds is a large scale conservation project funded by the Australian government. So the project provides incentives for landholders to get involved in conserving old pockets of remnants and scattered trees by protecting and enhancing them, including the establishment of native vegetation for our disappearing woodland birds. This particular wetland, one of the issues it needed was actually some advice on what it needed in as far as some re-vegetation for shrubs, etc. And that was one of the things I'd really like to bet. Bush for Birds and also the ability to control some of the introduced species such as Philaeus and there's a couple of other introduced grasses in there to try and take it back to a more natural state. We're looking for landholders who would want to set aside at least five hectares of vegetation that would mostly consist of remnant vegetation, scattered trees or wetlands. So one of the ways in which landholders can contribute is if they've already got a reasonably good patch of bush and they might want to protect and enhance it is just fencing out, managing the stock and it doesn't necessarily mean totally disclosure, but generally it's giving the bush a chance to regenerate and do its own thing. We've got quite a number of areas that we think's there for biodiversity and protected, mainly just because it gives a better balance to the landscape. The data shows that we're areas that have got good biodiversity and they're good aesthetics, they're commanding much better soil prices. We've planted about four and a half thousand trees all up along two corridors. Both region honeyeders and swift parrots are threatened because we've lost about 75% of the habitat that used to be here pre-European tombs. And the remnants that are left are often in a situation where we've got competing birds, noisy miners in particular make it really difficult for them to compete in those fragmented landscapes. There was a lot of old mature trees here and we really valued that. We decided to enhance that as much as we possibly could. Most of the plants are bird attracting and that's reaping benefits to the present. We're a mix of wood plantations that we planted ourselves, we planted 6,000 trees about 15 years ago and we run few sheep, about 30 years. We can still manage grazing in an ecologically sensitive manner, just means being practical about when we put in stock. It's still these short periods. Since we've been fed it off, there's a number of plants that have come up that we'd never seen before that the stock just ate off. It looks especially a lot of the wetland plants. They're very succulent, very juicy, obviously very tasty. They will come back just by their own accord. The number of bird species has increased and there's gliders. We've now got a pair of wedgedile eagles that frequent here. They weren't here before and so it's just their whole package bringing back that balance to the landscape. I just saw the spread that I wasn't quite sure what it was. Looked it up in the book and it was a region to honey. The remnant areas both in the middle of winter and also in the summer when you've got extremes of hot, peaking cold, you look at where the stock are. They're taking advantage of the shade and shelter that a lot of these remnant areas give. So yeah, it's a definite benefit from that perspective. Well, we've lost a lot of our landscape which supports the main habitat types, the box iron bark, forest, the open woodlands, the white box, yellow box grassy woodlands. And because they've particularly been the ones that have been agriculturally cleared, it's been a good farming country which we've lost. And so particularly for the spring breeding season where we've lost that habitat. That's why it's so important that some of the protection mechanisms that the Bushford Birds Program offers is going to be able to really contribute to the conservation of those those species and woodland birds generally. We both really enjoy the bird life and I think it's partially what makes the Protoplace and makes, it gives us the enjoyment we get from it. We're offering a range of incentives to help landholders succeed with their projects. From my perspective, the Bushford Birds project is a great opportunity and yeah, I'd really encourage other people to take it up, try it out. Have a look at it and see what they can do. The expression of interest process is really simple and the range of options you can tailor what you want to do. So have a go. you