BULLETIN May 2025
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Landcarers and community invited to get planting with Project Spout
Wodonga Landcare's major winter planting initiative aims to plant over 7,000 native tube stock across multiple locations with community support this June!
Project Sprout – Sustaining Parks: Restoring Our Urban Terrain – will include planting events across multiple locations, creating vital wildlife corridors that connect the Wodonga hills and waterways directly through the city to the Murray River.
The project aims to cool and green Wodonga by establishing and expanding native plantings in urban parks. Existing green spaces will be enhanced by these plants to provide habitat for wildlife, improve air and water quality and help our community foster deeper community connections with nature.
Between the 20th and 29th of June, Wodonga Urban Landcare Network groups will host community planting days at more than ten locations across Wodonga.
Project Sprout is proudly supported by Landcare Australia and BUPA.
Come planting!
Everyone is welcome at our community planting days. Pitch in at your patch, bring some friends, see if your sport or social group would like to 'dig in', too!
We welcome broad community participation with all ages and experience levels catered for. No green thumb required – just enthusiasm for making Wodonga greener and more sustainable.
Pick the times and locations that work for you.
Across our network of groups and sites there are many opportunities to get planting, including at:
– House Creek & Huon Creek parks with Friends groups at Willow Park, Clyde Cameron Reserve, Ewart Brothers Reserve and David Winterbottom Park and Leneva Castle Creek Landcare
– Wodonga Trails with Friends of Wodonga Rail Trail
– Wodonga Retained Environment Network reserves & hills, with Friends of the WREN Baranduda and Bear’s Hill, Friends of Federation Hill, Lou Lieberman Park, Susan Campbell & Kent McKoy Reserves
– Ryan’s Lagoon with Parklands Albury Wodonga.
For all dates and locations, and to register to attend, use the button below.
Ecohub – seeding change at Baranduda Fields
We are excited to announce that we have been successful in securing funding for our new project: Ecohub – seeding change at Baranduda Fields which is a collaboration with Wodonga Council.
WULN gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Border Trust, and ACE Radio 2AY with Handbury Foundation for their valuable contribution to this project.
You can also find these and other news items on the website: wodongalandcare.org.au/news
Other WULN events
Feral Pig Control Workshop
Saturday 14 June, 10am - 1pm
Baranduda Community Centre
Join us for the second workshop in our 'Growing capacity against invasives on small blocks' series.
We will be joined by Agriculture Victoria's Feral Pig Coordinator, Sam Armstrong, who will deliver a presentation and demonstrations on best practice and collaborative management of pigs in peri-urban areas.
Other Landcare events
Film: Just A Farmer
Kiewa Catchment Landcare Network present a special screening of the award winning Australian film, 'Just A Farmer'. Meet the film's writer, producer and actor, Leila McDougall. Be a part of the conversation around rural mental health.
WHEN & WHERE:
June 13, Yackandandah Public Hall. Doors open at 6pm.
Tickets only $10. Includes an entry to the lucky door prize and light refreshments after the film. All proceeds donated to AgBiz Care.
Cultural Conversation - Fire in the Landcape
Be a part of the knowledge sharing and conversation around traditional fire practices in contemporary land management.
Join Kiewa Catchment Landcare Network, local Duduroa Elders, Uncle Vince Forrester, cool burn practitioner Bridget Doyle and Bill Gammage, author of the Biggest Estate on Earth for this not to be missed fire forum.
WHEN & WHERE:
Yackandandah Public Hall, June 20th, 1-3pm.
Afternoon tea included.
OTHER news
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Revolutionary Approach to Save Freshwater Turtle Nests from Fox Predation
A groundbreaking conservation project led by Dr Lígia Pizzatto from La Trobe University’s Centre for Freshwater Ecosystems is set to revolutionize turtle protection in the Murray River Basin.
The innovative study, supported by Wodonga Urban Landcare Network (WULN) and partly funded by WIRES National Grant Programs and La Trobe University, aims to condition foxes to avoid turtle nests through taste aversion therapy—a humane, and likely more efficient, alternative to traditional lethal control methods.
Photo by Turtles Albury Wodonga
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