Octave Estate Southern Brown Bandicoot Habitat Restoration
Octave Overview
Project Octave demonstrates how large-scale ecological restoration can help rebuild habitat for one of Victoria's most threatened native mammals, the Southern Brown Bandicoot. Through locally indigenous planting, ecological expertise and collaborative delivery, the project is transforming a degraded site into a diverse, resilient landscape.
Regen Nurseries collected locally indigenous seed and propagated more than 110,000 plants for this large-scale habitat restoration project. Working alongside Regen Planters, GBLA and Jinding Developments, the project established a diverse native landscape designed to recreate the dense ground-layer vegetation essential for the Southern Brown Bandicoot and other native wildlife.
The works included large-scale revegetation using locally indigenous species, habitat creation and ecological restoration to improve biodiversity and strengthen long-term ecosystem resilience.
The primary objective of Project Octave is to restore high-quality indigenous habitat that supports the Southern Brown Bandicoot while enhancing biodiversity across the site.
Objective
- Restore locally indigenous vegetation communities.
- Create dense, structurally diverse habitat for native wildlife.
- Improve ecosystem resilience using local provenance plants.
- Deliver long-term biodiversity outcomes through sustainable landscape restoration.
Services Delivered
- Native plant supply
- Ecological restoration
- Environmental maintenance
- Monitoring & establishment
- Weed management
Project Partners
Restoration Results
Just 18 months after planting, the transformation is already evident. The site has developed into a dense, layered native landscape that is beginning to function as intended, providing valuable habitat and improving biodiversity across the project area.
Project Octave demonstrates how ecological expertise, local provenance seed and large-scale nursery production can deliver measurable environmental outcomes and create landscapes designed to support native wildlife for generations to come.