A network of dirt paths meanders through an expanse of bushland totalling 63 acres, enclosed by trees which reflect in the still water or drop leaves into the trickling stream that feeds the lake...
Category: Wild Melbourne
See the age-old Lion’s Head Tree at Melbourne’s Botanic Gardens
The Lion’s Head Tree, so named because of the evocative appearance of a gall on its trunk...
Four decades of sustaining inner Melbourne’s green heritage
One of the longest-running community conservation groups in the Banyule region, Darebin Parklands Association protects one of urban Melbourne’s most valued green spaces...
The biodiversity secrets of Anthony Beale Reserve
Located in the leafy north-eastern suburb of St Helena, Anthony Beale Reserve is a place steeped in history...
Reinvigorating the green surrounds of an iconic Melbourne creek
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...
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...