Geelong and Melbourne are bursting at the seams. Our towns and cities are looking for ways to accommodate our growing communities. The City of Greater Geelong wants to build new […]...

PARK WATCH Article June 2023 | Grassy Plains Network Facilitator Adrian Marshall says radical changes are needed if the Government is to succeed in retaining the last one per cent […]...

PARK WATCH Article June 2023 | Adrian Marshall asks: Does the Geelong Strategic Assessment threaten nature? Geelong’s Northern and Western Growth Areas are 6,000 hectares earmarked for...

The Victorian Volcanic Plains were once home to bandicoots, potoroos, quolls, bilbies, marsupial mice and more. The vast majority of these never-to-be-seen-again creatures relied on grassland...

MEDIA RELEASE 30 March 2023 | The Victorian Government has been urged to list the Fat-tailed Dunnart as vulnerable, with the last surviving small marsupial of the state’s volcanic plains […]...

Picture this: rolling grassy plains full of wild flower meadows, stretching from the western suburbs of Melbourne to the South Australian border. Since colonisation nearly all of Victoria’s...

PARK WATCH Article March 2023 | Land acquisition has failed to obtain the best bits of the Western Grassland Reserve. That has to change. It’s time for some big thinking, says […]...

NEWS 20 February 2023 | Page last updated: 21/02/2023 What is the best way to create a trail of destruction through a field of Spiny Rice-flowers, Button Wrinkleworts and Arching […]...

NEWS 28 January 2022 | Page last updated: 28/01/2023 Grasslands are subtle. To the untrained eye the rich web of life that lives within them isn’t obvious. Animals and plants […]...

PARK WATCH Article November 2022 | Despite their importance and diversity – and the science – Victoria’s grasslands are experiencing an ongoing decline. Adrian Marshall, Facilitator of the...