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!

Yarrilinks has supported Lake Marma Committee of Management to undertake some weed control around Lake Marma in Murtoa.

We took some drone footage at a 2024 plantout site near Boolite with help from the Wimmera CMA.

Putting in native plants at the Warracknabeal Education Precinct with the Secondary College and Primary School!

Landcare Facilitator Alicia handed out aroud 400 native plants to residents in southern Yarriambiack Shire

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