Alicia visited Longerenong College to talk to the students about the Victorian Landcare Grants process, and then the group travelled to Rupanyup Reservoir to check out a previous Landcare project.

We recently finished reporting on the 2023 Victorian Landcare Grants. Total funding of around $15.200 enabled us to leverage over $71,000 worth of in-kind contributions! Read more about what we achieved.

We held a pest control demo day with Project Platypus as part of our collaborative Partnerships Against Pests project. Participants learned about feral cats, foxes and rabbit control, and we had demonstrations of canid pest ejectors, rabbit warren fumigation and ripping, and boxthorn pulling.

Murtoa College student Alyvia writes an article on her class’s involvement in tree planting at Rupanyup Reservoir in winter/spring 2024.

In this activity, we developed a priority list of weeds for the area informed by the community, through our Partnerships Against Pests project with Project Platypus. Read on to learn more about gazania, horehound, bridal creeper, amsinckia and boxthorn!

This spring we enjoyed a guided walk through a buloke woodland in Minyip with local nature lover Rae Talbot.

This collaborative project, led by Project Platypus and involving Horsham District Landcare Network and Yarrilinks, aims to build capacity and networks in invasive species management.

Wimmera Landcare helped support community attendance at the Wimmera Biodiversity Seminar this year through a collaborative project funded through AgVic's Partnerships against Pests program.

We also had some year 9 students from Murtoa college help out at the Rupanyup Reservoir, with tree planting and removing old guards for re-use.

28 Volunteers helped us revegetate 3 ha at Boolite to link covenanted remnant woodland with native vegetation along the Dunmunkle Creek.

We had students from the year 12 VET program at Murtoa College join us for a day of tree planting at the Rupanyup Reservoir. This activity was part of a project management assignment for the students, where they had to get involved in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a project.

We learned all about fungi from ecologist Alison Pouliot at this event - featuring stories about fungi from around the world, their role in the ecosystem and the ins and outs of edible fungi.

For Careers week we had some students help us improve habitat at an environmental water refuge site, and release endangered native fish.

Alicia submitted 4 Landcare grant applications for Yarrilinks and our other member groups. If successful, these grants will fund the network’s activities over the next year.

They say the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago! Tepper’s node was the first ever Yarrilinks Planting in 1999. 25 years later it’s providing habitat and a source of pride for landholder David Tepper.

Yarrilinks and Lah Landcare Group celebrated National Eucalypt Day on 23 March with an event about the Yarriambiack Mallee-Box, a species of eucalyptus tree found only in a small area near Brim.

Yarrilinks hoted a Clean Up australia Day event along the Yarriambiack Creek before launching our new strategic plan at the Creekside Hotel in Warracknabeal.

Read the results of our 2023 Landcare Priorities Survey, which supported the development of our soon-to-be-released 2024-29 Strategic Plan.

The Wimmera CMA has established a soil moisture probe and weather station network that can help Wimmera farmers make well-informed management decisions.

Yarrilinks had some student helpers all the way from South Australia to do some weeding work at Minyip Wetlands and a Trust for Nature site near Murtoa!