Excerpt from abc.net.au
Owning your own private island sounds like the remit of the extremely rich, but one environmental group has flipped this narrative on its head.
For roughly the price of an inner-city apartment, not-for-profit group Nooramunga Land and Sea (NL&S) has purchased multiple small islands off the coast of Gippsland, with the sole aim of protecting the environments from development forever.
NL&S said the cluster of saltmarsh islands in South Gippsland's Corner Inlet, with views of Wilsons Promontory National Park, could play a part in tackling carbon emissions, while providing habitat for endangered species of flora and fauna.
And the team behind the acquisitions has plans to buy more land in the future.