connecting community & Country

Initiatives that help repair and build the relationship between community and Country through encouraging people to experience and appreciate flora, fauna and other aspects of this unique Country

Celebrating & Appreciating the Box-Ironbark Forests

Offering an inclusive space for community members to gather, celebrate and encourage learning and appreciation of our local natural heritage through the creation of field guides, photographic exhibitions and talks by local naturalists as well as conducting monthly bushland walks.

The Buzz project

Working with landholders to provide habitat stepping stones for the threatened Brush-tailed Phascogale, and support volunteers to monitor 450 established nest boxes across Mount Alexander Shire

Habitat for phascogales

Working with landholders to provide habitat stepping stones for the threatened Brush-tailed Phascogale, and support volunteers to monitor 450 established nest boxes across Mount Alexander Shire

Bursaria for butterflies

Protecting and restoring habitat for the Castlemaine populations of the threatened Eltham Copper Butterfly by working with landholders to reduce threats to the butterflies – and improve the quality, quantity and connectivity of available butterfly habitat.

Regenerate before it’s too late

Engaging the community about the importance of large old trees and how to protect them. A project using citizen science to collect key data on old trees while providing the community and landholders with support to protect them through workshops and on-ground actions.

Elphinstone Cool Places

Regenerating the habitat value of a derelict semi-industrial landscape and creating an outdoor space where the community can gather on hot days. The project explores and documents regenerative methods of invasive species removal and solicits the community engagement.