National conservation program

About

The National Conservation Program group will support cultural health through a research program advocating for and enabling broad and distributed decentralised access to innovative conservation and conservation education. The development of the National Conservation Program will decentralise access to innovative conservation practice and education providing conservation into rural, regional and remote Australian communities.

Projects

Community identity and the interconnectedness of community engagement in conservation practice - Loong Conservation Project

Grimwade Centre research was applied to a project to conserve Loong, the oldest intact processional dragon in the world. Loong is on permanent display at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo and represents an object of high cultural significance to the State of Victoria and the local Bendigo Chinese community. The Loong Conservation Project was supported financially by the Victoria Government through the Living Heritage Grant Program and was delivered over a 12-month period from July 2021.