Your Restore Kit. Your impact on Country.
Every Restore Kit purchased through Ganbu Country contributes directly to on‑ground care for native wildlife and the ecological repair of the Box Ironbark Forest on Kulin Nation lands. This page is a quiet record of that care: the nesting boxes installed, the monitoring cameras that gather evidence, and the footage that shows the life the forest still supports.
How your purchase gives back
Each Restore Kit contributes to ongoing care for Country within the Box Ironbark Forest on Kulin Nation lands.
This work takes form through habitat restoration, ecological monitoring, cultural practices, and regenerative land management, including nesting boxes, fauna cameras, field surveys, soil and seed work, cool burning, and regenerative agricultural practices that support water retention and landscape repair.
This is not a charity exchange.
It is an act of reciprocity.
Your purchase supports Indigenous-led care grounded in sovereignty, where land is not a resource to be used, but a living system to be respected, listened to, and cared for through ongoing practice.
Why the Box Ironbark Forest
Once spanning over 3 million hectares, only around 18% of the Box Ironbark Forest remains in Victoria today.
Cleared for mining and agriculture, what remains is critical habitat for over 1,000 native species, including the threatened Squirrel Glider.
For me, as a Kulin Nation woman, this is Country, a place of cultural significance, responsibility and connection.
Impact supported through Restore Kit sales
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266,000 m² (26.6 ha)
Ecological monitoring area
Repeated transect line and quadrat-based surveys conducted across the full site sinc 2022 -
14
Nesting boxes prepared
Ready for installation as part of ongoing habitat restoration works -
8
Nesting boxes installed
Installed across Box Ironbark Forest to support arboreal habitat and threatened glider species -
10
Soil samples collected
Baseline soil condition sampling across ecological survey zones -
3
Fauna monitoring systems established
Fauna camera units and data storage systems aquired for ongoing wildlife observation and recording -
2
Fauna cameras deployed
Actively monitoring wildlife presence and nesting box usage -
5
Ecological Hydrology trial zones established
Designated research areas testing regenerative practices including leaky weirs, contouring, and water retention strategies -
3
Kg's of Indigenous seed collected, scarified and planted
Locally sourced native seed stock processed and reintroduced to site to support regeneration and understorey diversity -
2
Cultural ecological cool burns conducted
Low-intensity burns carried out under appropriate conditions to support ecological renewal and fuel load management
These figures reflect our collective impact and our ongoing fieldwork across the site.
The images below show these practices on Country.
Field observations from the Box Ironbark Forest 2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
Wildlife monitoring data
For those wanting to explore the data more deeply, you can access the monitoring records directly.
Caring for Country, in practice
This work is ongoing and guided by seasonal conditions, ecological changes, global climate shifts and cultural responsibility to Country.
For us, caring for Country means responding to what Country shows is needed, as we continue to learn how to better read and care for land, water and life.
The outcomes shown here reflect active, field-based monitoring and restoration carried out over time, not fixed endpoints, but part of a continuing relationship with Country.