Willum Warrain Pun Pun Project
Willum Warrain Aboriginal Gathering Place is restoring a vital waterway behind their community centre as part of a three-year bio-link project called Healing Water Country. The project connects fragmented bushland and creates a continuous habitat corridor linking to Warrangine Creek and the RAMSAR-protected Western Port Bay – a landscape traversed nightly by endangered powerful owls.
This grant supported Willum Warrain Aboriginal Gathering Place to build two new Pun Puns as part of its Healing Water Country project. The wetlands expanded habitat, improved water quality and biodiversity, and created new opportunities for ceremony, cultural storytelling and community education. The work also extended habitat links towards Warrangine Creek and Western Port Bay, supported the return of native aquatic species, and strengthened Willum Warrain’s role in Aboriginal-led land and water stewardship.
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