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Protecting Victoria's climbing future

Victorian CliffCare Trust

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The Victorian Climbing Club (through the Victorian Cliffcare Trust) is seeking donations to protect and repair the places where you love to climb.

CliffCare in Victoria has a great track record. Hundreds of climbers have joined in our practical repair of the cliff environment. You can see our work at Summer Day Valley, Camels Hump, Werribee Gorge and in the Organ Pipes at Mt Arapiles.

Your donation will help us to continue this work.

Your donation will also help us to:

1. Keep up our direct personal contact with land managers.
By building relationships with rangers, we have been able to find practical solutions before major access problems arise. This has included:

  • Getting support from climbers for an access moratorium on cliffs near the home of the last Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies in the Grampians. (This moratorium has now been lifted after the last Rock Wallaby was taken into a captive-breeding program.)
  • Working with local Kooris to protect art sites at Black Ian's Rocks and Arapiles,
  • Siting of new tracks to Mt Rosea and the Gallery.
  • Re-opening cliffs on the east side of Flinders Peak in the You Yangs.
  • New car-parking at Teneriffe.
2. Reduce land manager fears about their liability for climbing accidents.
We have reinforced the message that no land manager in the US, the UK or Australia has ever been successfully sued for negligence in relation to a climbing accident.

3. Educate climbers about sharing the cliffs with other species.
How can climbers affect Peregrine Falcons? We have sought advice from the experts and published detailed information about the way these spectacular birds nest and breed. This helps climbers to understand the purpose of seasonal cliff closures.

4.Maintain a strong and attractive public presence for our CliffCare projects through poster displays in gyms and shops.

Key Areas of Expenditure

restoring native vegetation in the threatened grasslands at Arapiles;
educating climbers to make sure we are not spreading weeds around fragile cliff environments in the Grampians
establishing a new climbing wall at Burnley.

Are donations tax deductible? Yes

Will I receive a receipt for my donation?
Yes, immediately sent to you by email when approved.

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