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"An extensive stretch of public and private land along the Merri Creek corridor
in Melbourne’s outer north will be handed back to the Wurundjeri and
Woi-wurrung people to be managed as a new park.
More than half of the land designated to be returned to Indigenous management
will need to be acquired by the state government, which has committed to the
project as part of its $315 million suburban parks program.
The sprawling parkland, to be named
marram baba Merri Creek, will be 2778
hectares, more than 16 times larger than Royal Park.
It will follow the course of Merri Creek for more than 34 kilometres, from the
urban fringe suburbs of Beveridge and Kalkallo to the industrial estates of
Campbellfield, ending where the creek flows beneath the M80 Ring Road.
It will include several areas of critically endangered grasslands that must be
protected under federal environmental laws.
An agreement by nine agencies that manage public land within the future park’s
boundaries to return the land to traditional owners is expected to be confirmed
within days,
The Age has been told.
The agencies – which include three outer-north councils, two state government
authorities and two water corporations – have agreed to act as transitional
land managers until the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people are “provided with the
capacity and resources to take on the land manager role”, a final plan for
marram baba says."
Via
Guardian Australia
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