Landscapes in Motion

In our final episode for 2025, we chat with our CEO Marty Fuller about the year that was, the year that’s coming and why CMAs and partners are so vital to healthy landscapes. 

Get to know a bit more about us and the work we do in your communities. As we walk along the picturesque Lyrebird Walk in Mirboo North on Gunaikurnai Country, Marty reflects on the landscape-scale changes he’s witnessed in his 24-years at the CMA and across 2025.   

“I’m at that point where I can drive around and get a real sense of achievement seeing landscapes that are changing off the back of the work that CMAs do with communities and partners. I feel very privileged to work in such a great industry, in the best region in the world,” said Marty. 

Some of these long-term projects include: 

• Decades of work with farmers, foresters, fishers and community to protect Corner Inlet.
• More recently, the catchment-scale impact of the Kugerungmome/Powlett River Partnerships project.
• Collective efforts around the Gippsland Lakes.
• Initiatives in and around the Latrobe system.
• A quarter of a century of working with irrigators in the Macalister Irrigation District to save water and reduce nutrient run-off.
• Celebrating 20-years of environmental water in the Carran Carran (Thomson River).

Looking ahead, some of the exciting projects on the calendar for 2026 are:

• New infrastructure to help environmental water at Heart Morass.
• A new fishway at Maffra to support migratory fish on their journey.
• Celebrating 40-years of Landcare in Victoria.

“The CMA is all about working together, caring for Country for current and future generations,” concluded Marty.