Calanders of Events in 2013

Wyndham

Hobsons Bay

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Nature Share - New Plant Lists

If you are venturing across Victoria these holidays, you might want to visit some of the parks listed below.  Clicking on their link will take you to Nature Shares list of species for that reserve.

They are grouped by Catchment Management Authorities to help you orient yourself.  Once you view collection you can look at its individual map.

 

Mallee
Wimmera
 Glenelg Hopkins
North Central
Corangamite
Port Phillip and Westernport
North East
East Gippsland
West Gippsland

 

Biodiversity Maze

Western Melbourne Catchments Network have funding to build our Bio Maze.

It will be made from two large marquees, which we would like to set up at festivals, school and community events. We need volunteers interested in editing photographs to "hide" animals in photographs.

If you are interested and would like to be involved please e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Plants of Melbourne's Western Plains

 

It is almost here!

I have had the privilege of flicking through a copy.  This long awaited 2nd edition will be available after the 21st of July 2012.  Keep an eye on the Keilor Plains APS Group website for more details.

http://www.apskeilorplains.org.au/

It is certainly a book you will find extremely useful.

Colleen Miller

The Western Grassland Reserve

The Victorian Government is reserving 15,000 hectares of land to protect critically endangered grasslands, and to offset the ecological impact of urban growth in Melbourne’s north and west.

The grassland reserves will be managed primarily for nature conservation, for the protection of native vegetation and the habitats of native plant and animal species.

The Western Grassland Reserves will form a new grassland park of international significance, connecting the You Yangs area to the Werribee River across the Volcanic Plains.

To learn more about Victoria's grasslands please watch our grassland video on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISH4tp_fm0I&

And for more details about the Grassland Reserve click on the link to the DSE website - http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/land-management/land/native-vegetation-home/strategic-assessment-agreement-for-future-melbourne-growth/melbourne-strategic-assessment-grassland-reserves

BBC Films of grasslands at Mt Rothwell Biodiversity Interpretation Centre

A while ago, we had query from the BBC about grasslands after they visited our WMCN website. 

 I took a couple of scouts out to look around some sites and Mt Rothwell.  The following two links are from the BBC’s Secrets of Our Living Planet Series and was filmed out at Mt Rothwell.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqUs9qVY_do&;

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rydu7ANcE0&;

 Enjoy

Colleen Miller