Bunurong Coast

• 89% private land, 11% public land
• 5794 ha public land: mainly coastal parks, coastal reserves, some stream frontage and nature conservation reserves

9242 ha of native vegetation patches > 10 ha, mainly along the coastline but also associated with the Hoddle Range, around Pound Creek and south of Koonwarra.

Areas of the highest revegetation priority extend south-east from Tarwin Lower through to Waratah Bay, down to Cape Liptrap and around the coast to Wilsons Promontory.

Grey goshawk, chestnut-rumped heathwren, gang-gang cockatoo, orange-bellied and blue-winged parrots, barking and powerful owls, white-bellied sea-eagle. Migratory and resident shorebirds including hooded plover, eastern curlew, caspian and fairy terns. Waterbirds including eastern great and little egrets, hardhead, musk, blue-billed and freckled ducks, Australasian bittern, Australasian shoveler.

Swamp antechinus, swamp skink, eastern bent-winged bat, platypus, southern toadlet, yellow-bellied sheathtail bat, white-footed dunnart, lace monitor.

Broad-leaf prickly moses, coast bitter-bush, silver everlasting, grey mangrove, velvet apple-berry, leafy twig-sedge, bog gum, coast ballart, rough blown-grass, currant-wood, dune wood-sorrel, rush lily.

• Sea level rise, storm surges and inundation in low-lying areas
• Introduced herbivores and predators: rabbits, deer, foxes, cats
• Reduction in water quality to estuarine wetlands
• Reduction in extent of terrestrial wetlands
• Lack of fire in priority vegetation types.