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26 February 2025

Come join us for a fun session where we will be building habitat pods for our local wildlife. This hands-on activity is great for ages 8+ and no experience is necessary. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with nature and give back to the environment. We can’t wait to see you there!

When: 8 April 2025 (morning session: 10-11am and afternoon session: 12-1pm)

Where: Warrien Reserve, Croydon North

Details (morning session): https://bit.ly/4h1WAHs

Details (afternoon session): https://bit.ly/4hYIdVW

We’d like to thank Maroondah City Council for generously funding our habitat pods project. We’d also like to thank our project partners at Ecology and Restoration Australia.

6 June 2025

We’ve been busy recently hosting eight wildlife rope bridge building workshops with the Yarra Ranges community. We’ve been able to share information about our amazing local wildlife with the community, and have already had some unusual animals trying to use our bridges! We’re looking forward to installing these in storm-damaged areas in the Yarra Ranges National Park later this year.

We’d like to thank Melbourne Water and Landcare Victoria for generously funding our wildlife rope bridge project. We’d also like to thank our project partners at Ecology and Restoration Australia.

24 April 2025

We headed to the La Trobe Valley this week to propagate native plants with Grade 3 and 4 students from Churchill Primary School. We’re looking forward to planting these in Gaskin Park on National Tree Day!

A big thanks to Roland from Latrobe City Council for kindly giving us a hand, and to Latrobe City Council for generously supporting our Planting the Seed program. We’d also like to thank our project partners at Ecology and Restoration Australia.

30 May 2025

We had lots of fun with Grade 4/5s from Ardeer Primary School learning how to propagate native plants. This section of Kororoit Creek is fairly disturbed, so it was great to see lots of native birds as well. We’re looking forward to planting with students along Kororoit Creek in a few months.

We’d like to thank the Brimbank City Council Community Grants program for generously funding our project, as well as our project partners at Ecology and Restoration Australia.

2 June 2025

Exciting news! Our habitat pods have landed in Warrien Reserve and Scott Street Reserve, ready for native frogs and lizards to use as shelter! We’re monitoring the pods so we can’t wait to see who uses them…

We’d like to thank the Maroondah City Council Community Grants program for generously funding our project, and our project partners Ecology and Restoration Australia.

25 May 2025

Today we showed the Sustainability Leaders from Wandin North Primary School how to propagate local native plants.  We had a wander through Picnic Hills Bushland Reserve to gather our cuttings, and then back to school to propagate them. We can’t wait until our planting day later this year!

We’d like to thank the Yarra Ranges Council community grants program for generously funding our project, and our project partners Ecology and Restoration Australia.

13 June 2025

We had a great time with the Wandin North Primary School Sustainability Leaders learning about cultural heritage on a rather frosty morning!

Kai spoke about his journey from Yorta-Yorta country and coming to a new tribe in Wurundjeri country, describing the animals that he saw along the way. Everyone warmed up with a Welcome dance and then drew some amazing stories using traditional Aboriginal symbols. We had a great game of marngrook “hot potato” with lots of thoughtful questions about Aboriginal traditions from the group.

We’d like to thank the Yarra Ranges Shire Community grants program for generously supporting our Planting the Seed program.

12 June 2025

Students from Yering Primary School, Coldstream Primary School, Yarra Glen Primary School, Lilydale Primary School and St Patrick’s Lilydale have had a great time learning about Aboriginal cultural this week through Welcome ceremony dances, storytelling, Aboriginal artwork and marngrook.

Kai showed students the different echoes of the digeridoo, with a mini corroboree, and gave some tips for how to read Country.  Students were able to tell their own story using traditional symbols, and sessions finished with a fun game of Marngrook “hot potato”.  Session leader Kai was proud to continue his legacy through sharing and teaching the oldest living culture in the world. 

A big thanks to the awesome Narrap Ranger team for all their help during the sessions! We’d also like to thank DEECA’s Greenlinks grants for generously funding our Planting the Seed program, and our project partners at Yarra Ranges Council and Ecology and Restoration Australia.

Please see our FAQ or contact us if your school would like to get involved.

8 May 2025

We had a very busy couple of weeks planting with our five Yering Billabong primary schools. Their hard work meant that we planted about 1.5km of Olinda Creek frontage – a big thanks to all our schools for a truly fantastic effort. Check out the photos and video!

We’d like to thank DEECA’s Greenlinks grants for generously funding our Planting the Seed program, and our project partners at Yarra Ranges Council and Ecology and Restoration Australia. We’d also like to thank the Wurundjeri Narrap Rangers team for all their help with our planting days – a big thanks to Yolanda and her awesome team!

Please see our FAQ or contact us if your school would like to get involved.