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.

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

The 2024 Yarrilinks AGM was held at the Wheatlands Ag Museum in Warracknabeal and included a tour of the museum afterwards.

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.

Yarrilinks member Fred Ackland attended the 2024 Victorian Landcare Forum in Bendigo with support from Yarrilinks. Read his thoughts about the experience here!

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.

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.

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!

FrogID week, held annually in November, is Australia’s biggest frog count. We went for a twilight walk on a balmy evening in Rupanyup, complete with a froggy chorus!

Yarrilinks participated in BirdLife Australia’s 10th Annual Aussie Bird Count in October with an event at Lake Marma in Murtoa

Yarrilinks attended the 2023 Warracknabeal show with a plant draw and kids activities!

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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