The Australian Government invests in Yarra4Life through its Caring for our Country program. Its specific goal for investing in Yarra4Life is - Increasing landscape scale conservation – to increase by 6,700 farmers in priority regions adopting activities that contribute to the ongoing conservation and protection of biodiversity.

The project not only contributes to the biodiversity values of the Yarra Valley through its support of the Helmeted Honeyeater program but also engages landholders through Caring for our Country investment to protect and enhance native vegetation and the biodiversity values on their properties.

Continued investment in the biodiversity values of the Yarra Valley and the Yarra4Life program are fundamental to its success in the future.

Specifically, Yarra4Life delivers the Australian Government's program by: 

• Bringing farmers together to improve the protection of priority woodlands on private land in the Yarra River Catchment.
• Enhancing and protecting priority woodland remnants on private land.
• Connecting priority woodland remnants on private land and with reserves.
• Creating more resilient woodland environments better placed to adapt to fire and a changing climate.

Within a year, Australian Government investment in the program will achieve

• 15 farmers adopt practices to improve and protect woodlands on an ongoing basis.
• 173 hectares of remnant woodland improved and protected under 4 year land management agreements.
• 60 hectares of remnant woodland protected under 4 long-term covenants.
• 14 hectares of revegetation connecting remnant woodland.