Australia's unique and weird-looking Great Spider Crabs have captured the imagination of locals and tourists alike...
Category: Wild Melbourne
Twenty two shades of sea slugs
All human activities impact the natural environment of Antarctica, but leisure activities have much less potential to benefit Antarctica than those related to science and scientific discovery...
Cornish College Nesting Box Project: Environmental education in the era of remote learning
Teacher Samantha Millar recounts how live-streamed nature has kept her class together and brought joy and learning through six lockdowns and nearly two years of remote learning...
Conservation starts with community: Connecting Country and land restoration in Central Victoria
Connecting Country is a community-led conservation organisation based in the Mount Alexander region of north-central Victoria whose central tenet is to engage the local community in restoring and caring for the land...
Solace in suburban nature
Two things remained open to me while I was in lockdown. The first was the dull heartbeat of the natural world I could find in the suburb I lived in...
Hope for dingoes at the Dingo Discovery Centre
In 2018, I booked a Cub tour at the Dingo Discovery Centre in Toolern Vale, Victoria, imagining how lovely it would be to cuddle some cute dingo cubs. But what I discovered that day changed my world...
Street art doesn’t have to D-V-Ate from conservation
When Jimmy Beattie first started dabbling in graffiti art around 1996, there was no such thing as a professional mural artist. These days, Jimmy works almost solely on conservation-focused commissions, mostly of local Victorian species.
4 ways to keep your lockdown walk interesting
So how on earth do I make the 160th walk during my lunchtime break seem new and exciting? Here’s a few things I’ve tried…
Rediscovering childhood joy down the Dandenong Creek
This was the place, in the middle of a bustling suburb, where I was first able to witness the wild. Well, as wild as I had ever seen before in Melbourne...
Winter is a wonderland in the Macedon Ranges
Some property of this volcanic landscape seems to come alive in miserable weather – perhaps the dew on weeping leaves of eucalypts or the lichen on granite boulders, which stands out all the better against a dull sky...