What we do

C411 Country builds on decades of conservation work across the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges.

Two locally led initiatives inform our approach.

The Woori Yallock Creek Park Alliance identified and brought together approximately 3,000 hectares of fragmented public land into a shared vision for coordinated care – Victoria’s first Landscape Conservation Area – now known as Liwik Barring (Trail of the Ancestors).  It demonstrated how collaboration across agencies and land tenures can restore ecological function at scale.

Beyond Yellingbo showed what is possible on private land, working with more than 120 landholders to bring more than 300 hectares into protection or restoration. 

Together, these initiatives demonstrated that landscape-scale stewardship works when it is grounded in place, relationships and persistence.

C411 Country expands this proven work into a whole-of-landscape, whole-of-community effort – connecting public and private land, supporting landholders and partners, and strengthening ecological condition over time.

The soils, forests, waterways, flora and fauna species that sustain a healthy landscape are natural capital. Agribusiness Yarra Valley and Nangana Landcare Network have jointly agreed to support the establishment of a Foundation for Natural Capital for the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges.