Join us at the Moorabool Mushroom Festival! WRA will be having a stall at the event on the Saturday. Feel free to drop by for a chat and learn more about our activities and how to get involved. TICKETS AVAILABLE: Purchase here: https://thq.fyi/se/0d3e3ec0cdbc Join us for a celebration of all things fungi in Bacchus Marsh […]
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Werribee River Association – SUMMER BY THE SEA EVENT SEAWEED SAFARI AND SHORELINE STEWARDSHIP Date: Sat JAN 17th, 10.30 – 12.30pm Tickets free, but spaces limited so bookings essential Come along for a Seaweed and shoreline discovery safari at Werribee South River mouth where the river meets the bay. Join Werribee River Association and experienced
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Celebrate World Migratory Bird Day with WRA at Truganina Explosives Reserve! Visit our stall and connect with Robert Walsh to learn about wetland ecology and conservation. Enjoy guided walks, live music, art workshops, and more. Free entry, family-friendly fun!
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Join us in the beautiful surrounds of Lake Dewar Discovery Camp at Myrniong for a workshop on local water quality issues, pollution sources, and how citizens can monitor and assess water quality. These factors can impact biodiversity including platypus and other inhabitants of the river. After a brief presentation indoors, we will collect and analyse
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Join us for an exciting evening by the Werribee River and Davis Creek as we explore the incredible biodiversity of Melbourne’s urban waterways. Spot, identify and record frogs, platypuses, and macroinvertebrates during this immersive, hands-on event!
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Be part of this exciting water quality monitoring project, one component of our larger mission of increasing platypus populations in the lower Werribee River. Platypus Watch is being run in partnership with Victoria University, whose researchers and specialist Environmental Engineers will guide citizen scientists over a 12-month period to test water quality. The sessions will
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A citizen science project to visit the Werribee River at Cobbledicks Ford Reserve and assist with water quality sampling.
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Join us for a meander along the lower Werribee River, as part of the Fruit Tree Festival. We’ll take the serene track under a canopy of River Red Gums to the Blue Stone Ford, discovering some of the plants and animals that call this part of the world home. We’ll visit the fish passageway that
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This 4.6km Deep Time Walk is a transformative journey, led by Jess Fairfax, Werribee River Association’s Program Manager. Guiding people through the 4.6 billion years of Earth history. The distance walked is used to explore the vast time scales and developments of our planet. This is an immersive learning experience designed to encourage further thinking,
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Join us these April school holidays to discover the plants and animals of Skeleton Creek, Truganina. Through extensive planting of indigenous species, Skeleton Creek is regenerative success story and now once again home for the endangered Growling Grass Frog. Through an informative walk and bingo session, we will explore some of the plants along the
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