Category: News

On our walk last Sunday, we were delighted to discover, we think, a Gould’s Wattled Bat (male) in one of our nest boxes. This microbat is larger and more common than most. We witnessed microbats in flight across the night sky and our echo meters were fla...

We are very grateful for a new cabinet to house our spraying equipment, generously funded by Rotary Albert Park. These chemicals need to be properly stored but the cabinet comes at some cost so thanks again!

Our trailer is now in operation, here on the Wharf Road Triangle – a long strip of land recently added to the Park. It’s a sturdy trailer now protected by wheel clamps and a new security system so we are confident it won’t be stolen again. We...

Allocasuarina verticillata – Drooping Sheoak is a rather dull grey-green tree but take a close look at the highly ornamental patterns on the branchlets of the male plant, right. The female plant produces red flowers along the trunks and branches. These f...

Victoria’s CDS has arrived! This means you can now exchange some aluminium, glass, and plastic containers – just check for the 10c refund logo on the container. See here for what can and cannot be exchanged. To find your nearest collection point, s...

We were successful some years ago in having this long strip of land incorporated into the Park. It’s on our boundary with Boeing. The first stage in revegetation was to plant along the fence line. The weedy grass was sprayed out and in October last year ...

21 nest boxes at Westgate Park were monitored on Saturday night by the microbats team. They found spider webs and a few insects but no microbats! This is not surprising. It could take years for them to take up residence so patience is essential. At least this ...

There were too few bookings for the 1 Dec event so it had to be cancelled, but the silent auction has now gone online. Bids can be made up to 8 December. Proceeds will be shared by Westgate Biodiversity, and the Victorian Forest Alliance.

In the early hours of Sunday 1st October, callous thieves broke into our compound at Westgate Park in Port Melbourne. Then tragically, three weeks later our compound was broken into a second time. The thieves were so brazen that they pulled the compound gates ...

On 18 October our friends at Tangaroa Blue visited us to survey and collect litter.  Tangaroa Blue is an Australia-wide not for profit organisation dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris, and have visited us a number of times over recent yea...