With group members hailing from Thornbury, Heidelberg West, Reservoir and Bundoora, Friends of Darebin Creek is a dedicated conservation group whose work spans an immense fifty kilometres of creekside habitat...
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Restoring the heart of St Helena
Formed in the late 1980s, Friends of St Helena Bush Reserve is described by one of its dedicated volunteers as exhibiting a ‘...really great example of what indigenous flora was here before white settlement’...
Shifting towards a more Sustainable Greensborough
‘Reconnect, relocalise, build resilience.’ This is how Megan, founder of Sustainable Greensborough, summarises the primary ethos of Transition Towns...
The power of community in the fight to live sustainably
The Transition Towns initiative is one that seems to have taken the City of Banyule by storm...
Preserving Plenty River for future generations
It’s easy to see why Plenty River and its surrounding parkland is valued by locals...
A bushland oasis in Melbourne’s north-east
Established in 1996, Friends of Wilson Reserve might do many of the ordinary things that other conservation groups do, but it is still far from the norm...
Native hedgerows: a DIY guide for wildlife gardeners
It is not surprising that when the first Europeans arrived in Australia, they brought the humble hedgerow with them...
Bush Connections: Melbourne forest therapy program brings participants closer to nature
Nature is the ultimate provider. In Australia especially, there is so much we humans get out of being outside in green space, whether we know it or not...