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...
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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...
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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...
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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’...
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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...
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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...
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Preserving Plenty River for future generations
It’s easy to see why Plenty River and its surrounding parkland is valued by locals...
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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...