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2021 Friends Calendars For Sale

 2021 Friends of Chiltern Calendars Calendars are now available and selling quickly! Click here for a preview in pdf format NOTE: Copies can be purchased at the Chiltern Post Office. Friends 2021 Calendar – Order FormThe 2021 calendars cost $20 each plus postage/packaging if you need to have them posted. Delivery in the local area can […]

2019 Friends Calendars For Sale

 2019 CALENDARS 2019 FRIENDS CALENDARS ARE AVAILABLE FROM EARLY to MID NOVEMBER Click the front cover photo to go to the Merchandise page for ordering information

Box-ironbark flora of Castlemaine area

Martin O’Brien wrote: Great to see this superb Castlemaine & district flora website now up and running…will be a valuable resource for much of the box-ironbark I suspect. https://castlemaineflora.org.au/

Cactus Control Workshop at Eldorado March 26

We are fortunate to have presenters from the Tarrengower Cactus Control Group and the afternoon will consist of a brief talk about Opuntia cactus followed by a field demonstration on control techniques.  Could you please distribute the attached flyer around your group. We request RSVP’s for catering by calling 0448983109 or online at https://goo.gl/forms/HDL0iu3pWaPn3tH62

2018 Friends Calendars For Sale

 2018 CALENDARS 2018 FRIENDS CALENDARS ARE AVAILABLE FROM EARLY to MID NOVEMBER Click the front cover photo to go to the Merchandise page for ordering information

Free Film – Night Parrot Stories

  Free Film – Night Parrot Stories You are invited to a free film screening of Night Parrot Stories. When: Friday 22 July 2016 Time: 6:30pm Where: Albury Regent Cinema (Cinema 7) Film maker, Robert Nugent, will introduce the film and answer audience questions at the conclusion of the screening. In the remote deserts of […]

Threatened Species Protection

Threatened Species Protection Trust for Nature has received funding through the Victorian Government’s Threatened Species Protection Initiative to assist private landholders to improve threatened species habitat in the Chiltern-Mt Pilot area.   Trust for Nature is encouraging landholders in the project area to enter voluntary agreements to improve Hooded Robin and Squirrel Glider habitat and […]

AWFN Newsletter 123 October 2015

Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists The latest Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists newsletter is now available The AWFN program of events through to March 2016 is also available

Corowa District Landcare – Photographic Workshop and Competition

Corowa District Landcare – Photographic Workshop and Competition Corowa District Landcare’s first big landcare project(about 15 years ago) was at Redlands Hill and works are still carried out works. More recently they have contracted the Corowa Shire to spray out feral plants such as Olives, peppercorns etc and the Belladonna Lilies are being monitored. One […]

Birds of the MIA

Birds of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area A full-colour brochure with detailed information about 20 of our favourite birding spots in the Narrandera, Leeton and Griffith LGAs. Includes notable bird species that can be found at each site, and a map of the region with each location clearly marked.Click on the image to download a PDF […]

Bitterns In Rice Project Update

Bitterns In Rice Project Update We’re pleased to launch the Bitterns in Rice Project website. http://www.bitternsinrice.com.au Please share the link through your networks. It’s the one-stop-shop for information and updates on our project. We’re also pleased to inform you, if you’re not already aware, that the Tracking Bunyip Birds component has officially begun, with our […]

2015 Calendars

2015 calendar

2015  Friends Calendars Available From Mid November click here for full details

Australasian Bitterns Research

G’day Folks, Today we’re officially launching our crowdfunding campaign – Tracking Bunyip Birds – to raise $50 000 so we can satellite track endangered Australasian Bitterns. We have 40 days. Please consider getting behind our project. Pledges start at $20, with each one entitling you to different rewards. It would be greatly appreciated if you […]

Mosses of Dry Forests

Dear Friends Please click here for the flyer/order form for our recent publication Mosses of dry forests in south eastern Australia. Please note that the special reduced price is available to Friends group members.  Purchasers paying by direct debit can order by email to this address or to info@fobif.org.au, indicating bank payment details. Information about this Friends group can be […]

Farm Dam Blitz

Farm Dams for Wildlife Habitat Farm Dam Blitz is a short film for landholders interested in enhancing wildlife habitat in their farm dams. Farmers from New South Wales and Victoria talk about what they’ve done to make wildlife more welcome on their properties. Follow presenter and wildlife ecologist Matt Herring as he himself transforms alongside […]

Friends on Facebook

Chiltern Mt Pilot National Park News on Facebook For up to date news on the Park go to the independent group Chiltern-Mt Pilot News Group  

Turquoise Parrot Project

turquoise parrot project

Dear Neville, Eileen and Friends of Chiltern Mt Pilot NP, My name is Janice Mentiplay-Smith, and I’m the Coordinator of the Broken Boosey Conservation Management Network (CMN) in the Goulburn Broken Catchment.  The CMN undertakes lots of conservation projects, and recently we have embarked on a new Turquoise Parrot Project with Chris Tzaros called ‘Practical Parrot […]

Ovens and Murray Birdlife Jan to Aug 2014

Birdlife Ovens and Murray Newsletter The program of outings for Birdlife Ovens and Murray is now available here http://friendsofchiltern.org.au/https://friendsofchiltern.au/wp-content/uploads/ovens_murray_birdlife/Ovens_Murray_OutingsJan-Aug2014.pdf    

Fungi Workshops

Fungi  Workshops, Seminars & Forays     By Alison Pouliot               Autumn 2014 Summary SATURDAY 27 MAY  KERGUNYAH, VIC Workshop – A Mushroom Encounter – Fungi Workshop & Feast   Full details here

2014 Calendars

2014 Calendars will be available again soon 2014  Friends Calendars Available From Mid November – click here for full detailsPlease note the change in mailing costs which are current from the end of August 2013. If you would like to place an order please use the details on the merchandise page on the website. Electronic […]