Environment Projects

At HVP we love forests, we live among forests, and we depend on a healthy and sustainable environment to work, earn and live. We are involved in a broad range of environmental projects in many communities. These include:

• preserving and enhancing native vegetation remnants
• co-operative actions to manage weeds and pest animals such as English Broom and wild dogs
• strategic pine wildling removal
• re-vegetating areas such as at Mack’s Creek to improve the habitat for flora and fauna species
• supporting university student research projects
• recording, mapping and development of databases of environmental vegetation classes
• managing endemic rare and threatened species populations such as the Concave Pomaderris
• maintaining long-term biodiversity monitoring plots in key ecosystems, and
• developing Operating Standards for threatened species in plantation and custodial native forests such as the Burrowing Crayfish, the Koala and the Giant Gippsland Earthworm
• monitoring waterway health in key catchments, and
• developing management plans for rare and threatened species such as the Striated Sun Moth.

HVP continually enhance our forest stewardship and environmental management systems, not only protecting the environment, but also investing in the communities where our people work and live.