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Environmental values
WE WORK TO PROTECT AND CONSERVE THE UNIQUE AND BEAUTIFUL
ALPINE ENVIRONMENT AND WILDLIFE OF MT BULLER AND MT STIRLING.
LIVING BIN MOUNTAIN PYGMY-POSSUMS
The Living Bin program is a joint initiative between
Mt Buller and Mt Stirling Resort Management, 4SITE
Australia P/L and the North East Waste and Resource
Recovery Group which began as a trial in 2010 (funded
with the support of Sustainability Victoria) and now
continues as part of our best practice waste management
operations. It is a voluntary program encouraging
stakeholders and visitors to separate their organic waste
and help conserve the alpine environment. In one of Mt Buller’s great environmental success stories,
the population of the critically endangered Mountain
Pygmy-possum has been brought back from the brink of
extinction. The Mt Buller Mt Stirling Resort Management
Board, with Buller Ski Lifts, has implemented a range of
strategies to protect and enhance the population of these
precious creatures.
Since its inception, almost 100 properties participate in
the program, that has seen over 337 tonnes of food waste
diverted from landfill (that is a saving of over 641 tonnes
of carbon emissions!). Save the snow, participate in
The Living Bing Program.
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Recovery activities include ongoing threat mitigation
programs (pest animal and plant control), rehabilitation
and revegetation of habitat, maintenance of genetic diversity
via novel in situ translocation programs and continued
education and awareness.
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