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...
Tag: People in Nature
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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...
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Capturing connections: The inspiration behind Victorian author and illustrator Trace Balla
Self-taught author and illustrator of six books, Trace Balla, walks me through her garden – virtually – and sets me (her computer) down in the studio tucked beside a grapevine at the back of her property in the Dja Dja Wurrung Country of central Victoria...
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Playing the long game: Norfolk Island’s coral reef and lagoons
One thing that has become clear to me on this journey is that we have some amazing things here on Norfolk Island – species that are rare and perhaps even endangered. Some species that are endemic to this island, and some that may even be new to science...
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Perimetre walk
We swing off our distancing tack and head for Mud Islands, over water less than one metre deep. It’s strange to feel all at sea, but know you could jump overboard and still stand with your head above water...
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Discovering Strathbogie to invigorate the imagination
Once there was a time when more of us knew the language of wild places, when we could hear the songs of the wind, the language of birds, when we could follow the braille of tiny marsupials wending their paths, when our vision was wider, when we were immersed within the great conversation of the wild...
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We’re going on a bug hunt
With the sun gently embracing us, my daughter and I head out for a minibeast adventure in the suburbs. We walk to our local park. There are no traditional plastic or metal playgrounds here; rather, it has natural vegetation, open grassy areas, large boulders to clamber on and lots of bugs...
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Magic amidst a multitude of stems
Victoria’s box-ironbark forests are magic. Whatever time of year you visit, their beauty is evident. The rugged, gnarled trunks of the ironbarks stand black as if they’ve clung to their night-time colour scheme despite the breaking of day...
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The seat
To me, the walk, and especially the seat, is a magical place, peaceful and full of life, with a wonderful view of hills and valleys, becoming paler in the distance...