So we’ve all heard about kangaroos, echidnas, wombats, koalas… but what about the weird and wonderful creatures that lurk off our coastlines, live under our deserts and lope about our plains?
Read
Stuck on a Rock: rediscovering the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect
Hear about the incredible story of adventure, daring, rebellion, rock climbers and a stroke of pure luck in Stuck on a Rock, a documentary about the rediscovery of the supposedly extinct Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, by filmmaker Asher Flatt.
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...