Hosting Nature Stewards

Interested in hosting a Nature Stewards course? VNPA’s Nature Stewards Program is a multi-week course that connects curious people with their local and wider habitats. Our mission is to promote...

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We are back in Bunyip State Park in 2022 with a new and improved wildlife monitoring project! This year we are turning the spotlight on wildlife in the park – […]...

Pelagic (open ocean) species are those that are found in open ocean waters, rather than in waters close to shore or inland. Away from the shoreline, Victoria’s deeper open waters […]...

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea. Semi-enclosed bodies of coastal water where fresh andwater meet, they can encompass bays, inlets, river mouths, mudflats, wetlands, mangroves,...

Victoria’s subtidal reefs are either extensions of intertidal rocky reefs, or isolated offshore reefs. Taking the form of banks of stones or cobbles, large underwater boulders, cascading shelves of...

Australia’s southern waters contain spectacular and diverse organisms which rival those of tropical reefs in colour and form, though most are not corals. Marine animal communities flourish under...

Life is a challenge for species that live on intertidal rocky shores! Animals and plants here have to deal with storm waves, dehydration, extreme temperature changes, very salty conditions in...

Victoria has a diverse range of wetlands including saltmarshes, mangroves, and floodplain billabongs. Often referred to as swamps, coastal wetlands have historically suffered from inappropriate...