About the study
The study investigated local flora, fauna, ecological communities and the sites where these occur. It identified issues that affect our natural environment in Knox and made recommendations for improving it.
Sites of Biological Significance Study volume 1
Read the executive summary, scientific methods and findings and recommendations of the study.
Sites of Biological Significance in Knox – Volume 1, 3rd edition
Sites of Biological Significance Study volume 2
View aerial photos, descriptions and assessments of the habitat and plant species for each site.
Sites of Biological Significance in Knox – Volume 2, 3rd edition
Or view each individual site report listed below.
- Site 01 - Glenfern Road Woodland, Upper Ferntree Gully [PDF 704 kB]
- Site 02 - Gilmore Park, Upper Ferntree Gully [PDF 200 kB]
- Site 03 - End of The Avenue, Ferntree Gully [PDF 305 kB]
- Site 04 - Former CSR Ferntree Gully Quarry [PDF 486 kB]
- Site 05 - Koolunga Native Reserve, Ferntree Gully [PDF 492 kB]
- Site 06 - Vaughan Road Bushland, Ferntree Gully [PDF 203 kB]
- Site 07 - Wirrianda Reserve, Boronia [PDF 422 kB]
- Site 08 - Boronia Primary School [PDF 301 kB]
- Site 09 - Boronia Heights College [PDF 364 kB]
- Site 10 - Corner Philippa Road and Hansen Road, Boronia [PDF 206 kB]
- Site 11 - Bayview Crescent Reserve, The Basin [PDF 1.33 MB]
- Site 12 - Bayview Crescent Water Tank, The Basin [PDF 217 kB]
- Site 12a - Mortiboy Reserve, The Basin [PDF 256 kB]
- Site 13 - The Basin Scout Hall Reserve [PDF 317 kB]
- Site 14 - West of Wicks Reserve, The Basin [PDF 808 kB]
- Site 15 a - Wicks Reserve, The Basin [PDF 624 kB]
- Site 15 - Wicks Reserve and Wicks East Nature Reserve, The Basin [PDF 751 kB]
- Site 16 - Inverness Avenue Reserve, The Basin [PDF 390 kB]
- Site 17a - Dandenong Ranges National Park, The Basin [1 MB]
- Site 17 - The Ravine, The Basin [PDF 549 kB]
- Site 18 - Sassafras Forest Precinct, The Basin [PDF 769 kB]
- Site 19 - Hillside above Sheffield Road, The Basin [PDF 474 kB]
- Site 20 - Lower Dobson Creek, The Basin [PDF 1.17 MB]
- Site 21 - Dobsons Treed Paddock, The Basin [PDF 217 kB]
- Site 22 - Liverpool Road Retarding Basin, Boronia [PDF 301 kB]
- Site 23 - Sugarloaf Hill, Boronia [PDF 339 kB]
- Site 24 - St Bernadettes Primary School, The Basin [PDF 155 kB]
- Site 25 - George Grumont Reserve, The Basin [PDF 346 kB]
- Site 26 - Dandenong Creek Corridor [PDF 676 kB]
- Site 27 - Colchester Reserve Wetland, Boronia [PDF 345 kB]
- Site 28 - Blamey Court Reserve, Boronia [PDF 422 kB]
- Site 29 - Old Joes Creek Bushland, Boronia [PDF 619 kB]
- Site 30a - Penrith Street Reserve, Boronia [PDF 182 kB]
- Site 30 - Sundew Reserve, Boronia [PDF 273 kB]
- Site 31 - Knox Jaycees Reserve and Haering Road Child Centre, Boronia [PDF 197 kB]
- Site 32 - St Josephs School, Boronia [PDF 362 kB]
- Site 33 - Blind Creek Corridor [PDF 730 kB]
- Site 34 - Blind Creek Billabong and Quarry, Ferntree Gully [PDF 570 kB]
- Site 35 - Norvel Road Reserves, Ferntree Gully [PDF 128 kB]
- Site 36 - Burke Road Reserve and Knox Reservoir, Ferntree Gully [PDF 460 kB]
- Site 37 - Pickett Reserve, Ferntree Gully [PDF 329 kB]
- Site 38 - Clyde Reserve, Ferntree Gully [PDF 225 kB]
- Site 39 - Kent Park, Ferntree Gully [PDF 758 kB]
- Site 40 - Ferntree Gully Road Verge, Ferntree Gully [PDF 1.41 MB]
- Site 41 - 52 Kathryn Road, Knoxfield [PDF 850 kB]
- Site 42 - R.D. Egan-Lee Reserve, Knoxfield [PDF 418 kB]
- Site 43 - Lakewood Nature Reserve, Knoxfield [PDF 585 kB]
- Site 44 - Wadhurst Drive Park, Boronia [PDF 401 kB]
- Site 45 - Roselyn Crescent Reserve, Boronia [PDF 496 kB]
- Site 46 - Bayswater Park, Bayswater [PDF 472 kB]
- Site 47 - J.W. Manson Reserve, Wantirna [PDF 416 kB]
- Site 48 - Healesville Freeway Reservation, Wantirna [PDF 372 kB]
- Site 49 - Bateman Street Bush, Wantirna [PDF 653 kB]
- Site 50 - Yarrabing Wetlands Reserve, Wantirna [PDF 210 kB]
- Site 51 - Winton Wetlands, Wantirna [PDF 662 kB]
- Site 52 - Winton Farm Boronia Road, Wantirna [PDF 156 kB]
- Site 53 - Ardnehue Road Land, Wantirna [PDF 550 kB]
- Site 54 - Stringybark Reserve, Wantirna [PDF 499 kB]
- Site 55 - WG Morris Reserve, Wantirna [PDF 409 kB]
- Site 56 - Flamingo Reserve, Wantirna [PDF 425 kB]
- Site 57 - Wakley Reserve, Wantirna South [PDF 242 kB]
- Site 58 - Dandenong Valley Parklands [PDF 775 kB]
- Site 59 - Timmothy Drive Bushland, Wantirna South [PDF 538 kB]
- Site 60 - Cathies Lane Bushland and Llewellyn Reserve, Wantirna South [PDF 532 kB]
- Site 61 - Coppelia Street Bushland, Wantirna South [PDF 219 kB]
- Site 62 - Cathies Lane Reservation, Scoresby [PDF 502 kB]
- Site 63 - Redcourt Reserve, Scoresby [PDF 356 kB]
- Site 65a - Bankside Wetlands [PDF 395 kB]
- Site 65 - Stamford Park Rowville and Caribbean Lake [PDF 497 kB]
- Site 66 - Corhanwarrabul Creek and Tributaries [PDF 691 kB]
- Site 67 - Henderson Road Wetlands, Knoxfield [PDF 233 kB]
- Site 68 - Hillside Park, Rowville [PDF 306 kB]
- Site 69 - Cogley Sutton and Hill Lakes, Rowville [PDF 422 kB]
- Site 70 - Rowville Primary and Secondary Schools [PDF 555 kB]
- Site 71 - Delta Court Reserve, Rowville [PDF 313 kB]
- Site 72 - Rowville Electricity Terminal Station [PDF 482 kB]
- Site 73 - Starlight Reserve, Rowville [PDF 474 kB]
- Site 74 - Police Road Retarding Basin and Tirhatuan Wetlands [PDF 628 kB]
- Site 75 - Tirhatuan Lakes Golf Course, Rowville [PDF 563 kB]
- Site 76 - Dandenong Police Paddocks Reserve, Rowville [PDF 195 kB]
- Site 77 - Waverley Golf Club, Rowville [PDF 541 kB]
- Site 78 - Bergins Road Extension, Rowville [PDF 426 kB]
- Site 79 - Whitecliffe Reserve, Rowville [PDF 173 kB]
- Site 80 - Heany Park, Rowville [PDF 1.1 MB]
- Site 81 - Lysterfield Hills [PDF 330 kB]
- Site 82 - Lysterfield Park [PDF 231 kB]
- Site 83 - Lysterfield Valley [PDF 214 kB]
- Site 84 - Fruitful Vine Melbourne Church, Lysterfield [PDF 501 kB]
- Site 85 - Provence Rise Reserve, Rowville [PDF 117 kB]
- Site 86 - Pine Hill Reserve, Rowville [PDF 235 kB]
- Site 87 - Napoleon Road Bushland, Ferntree Gully [PDF 362 kB]
- Site 88 - Belgrave Railway Line Corridor [PDF 695 kB]
- Site 90 - Boronia Road Roadside, Boronia [PDF 368 kB]
- Site 91 - Mountain Hwy Roadside, Wantirna [PDF 584 kB]
- Site 92 - Mountain Hwy Roadside, Boronia to The Basin [PDF 592 kB]
- Site 93 - Burwood Hwy Roadside, Wantirna [PDF 383 kB]
- Site 94 - Napoleon Road Roadside, Rowville [PDF 556 kB]
- Site 95 - Kelletts Road Roadside east of Napoleon Road, Rowville [PDF 199 kB]
- Site 96 - Wellington Road Roadside, Rowville and Lysterfield [PDF 535 kB]
- Site 97 - Lysterfield Road Roadside, Lysterfield [PDF 308 kB]
- Site 98 - Treed Paddock High Street Road, Wantirna South [PDF 355 kB]
- Site 99 - Dandenong Ranges Buffer [PDF 789 kB]
- Site 100 - Forest Lodge Boronia Road, Wantirna [PDF 162 kB]
- Site 101 - Stud Road Roadside, Wantirna [PDF 277 kB]
- Site 102 - Ash Grove Precinct, Bayswater [PDF 263 kB]
- Site 103 - Blind Creek Valley, Boronia [PDF 417 kB]
- Site 104 - Ferntree Gully Ridge [PDF 134 kB]
- Site 105 - Dobson Street Treed Precinct, Ferntree Gully [PDF 333 kB]
- Site 106 - Scoresby Road Verge South of Burwood Hwy [PDF 100 kB]
- Site 107 - Knoxfield Treed Precinct [PDF 572 kB]
- Site 108 - Knox Park Primary School [PDF 103 kB]
- Site 109 - Fairhills High School, Knoxfield [PDF 308 kB]
- Site 110 - Knox Gardens Primary School, Wantirna South [PDF 283 kB]
- Site 111 - Brusco Close, Rowville [PDF 247 kB]
- Site 112 - Starlight Treed Precinct, Rowville [PDF 618 kB]
- Site 113 - Major Crescent Precinct, Rowville [PDF 195 kB]
- Site 114 - Clarence Road Treed Paddock, Wantirna [PDF 104 kB]
- Site 115 - Lysterfield Rural Properties [PDF 86 kB]
- Site 116a - Colchester Rd Roadside, Boronia [PDF 97 kB]
- Site 116b - Taylors Lane Roadside, Rowville [PDF 100 kB]
- Site 116c - Forest Rd Roadside, Ferntree Gully [PDF 99 kB]
- Site 117 - Schools [PDF 80 kB]
- Site 118 - Parks and Reserves [PDF 87 kB]
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