Spirit of the Bunyip aims to create 100 kilometres of continuous habitat links from the head of the Bunyip River and Cardinia Creek to the coast, and to halve the amount of sediment that is flowing into Western Port.  

The 136,000 hectare area is comprised of the iconic Bunyip State Park with its precious remnants of the wet forests and heathland. It also features rich agricultural region of beef and dairy farms, vegetable growing and vineyards in the south, and Western Port Bay’s fragile and damaged coastline of mangroves, marshes and mudflats.  

Each year it is the destination for tens of thousands of migratory birds from the northern hemisphere – many from China, Japan and Siberia – making it a wetland area of international significance.