The Victorian Greens are calling on the state government to purchase a large parcel of revegetated land listed for sale near Bacchus Marsh and extend the boundaries of an adjacent state park.
Conservation Volunteers Australia listed 230 hectares of land known as The Island for sale last month, saying it could not afford to keep maintaining the land after achieving its revegetation goal.
The large, hilly parcel of land next to Werribee Gorge State Park was donated to the group by James Whyte in 2006 and since then it has been transformed into an oasis of trees.
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