Author: Lyn

You are invited to the Annual General Meeting of the Westgate Biodiversity: Bili Nursery & Landcare Inc., held on Wednesday November 27th, 2019 at Port Ed, 343-383 Lorimer Street, Port Melbourne (under the Port Control Tower) beginning at 6.30 pm. A light ...

If you are interested in biodiversity and in playing a significant role in improving the bushland environment of Westgate Park and indeed in the Sandbelt Region of Melbourne, this may be for you.  It means leading a large and keen group of volunteers...

You are invited to the final workshops in our Providing for Pollinators project at which RMIT researchers will present the findings.

We were delighted to have participants in the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Symposium come to Westgate Park for a Field Trip. After a long walk through the Park we paused at the Freshwater Lake lookout where firstly an Australian Darter and then a family ...

Tony and George shared the Victorian Environment Friends Network Best Friends Award 2019, supported by a contingent of members of Westgate Biodiversity. Here’s how their contribution was described: George provides the knowledge base in how, what and wher...

Position Description – Manager         POSITION TITLE:    Manager DATE:                          October 2019    HOURS:        &n...

Local native plants, wildflowers, trees, shrubs, grasses and bushfoods will be discounted – tubestock ($2.50), potted plants ($5) and there will be plant giveaways so get in early! 10am to 3pm, Friday 6th – Sunday 8th. Please forward the flyer belo...

Over 40 mm of rain in July turned the park around; vegetation recovered rapidly, although many dead trees and shrubs remain from the preceding dry months. Resident species such as Superb Fairy-wrens and White-plumed Honeyeaters are present in high numbers, alo...

Our aim in putting plants in the ground is to improve biodiversity – that’s a given. But what we most want to see is sustainability – plants healthy and reproducing, kept in balance by natural processes.   Very dry conditions and, until ...