20 February 2024 We are excited to announce that, in partnership with Eco Warriors Australia and Yarra Ranges Council, we have been awarded a DEECA Green Links grant for our Planting the Seed program. You can find more details about our Planting the Seed program here. This project will fit within an existing restoration project… Continue reading Planting the Seed Program Grant
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Wildlife Rope Bridge Update, Yarra Ranges
13 December 2023 ERA recently installed close to 100 metres of rope bridge in storm affected vegetation in the Yarra Ranges Shire. The bridges will connect remaining canopy, meaning that arboreal marsupials like possums and gliders don’t need to come down to the ground as much, where they are at risk from predators. The wildlife… Continue reading Wildlife Rope Bridge Update, Yarra Ranges
SER Conference Darwin 2023
29 September 2023 ERA is currently in Darwin attending the 2023 Ecological Society of Restoration Conference – Nature and People as One: Celebrating and Restoring Connection. The conference encourages restoration specialists from around the world “to consider our own relationship with nature, and the interweaving of human and ecological wellbeing”. Conference topics included restoration monitoring… Continue reading SER Conference Darwin 2023
Planting the Seed Program Grant
31 August 2023 ERA is excited to announce that, in partnership with Eco Warriors Australia, we have received a grant for the Planting the Seed program from Junior Landcare. ERA will help to revegetate an area of damaged coastal vegetation along Mentone foreshore. We will work with students from Kilbreda College, Mentone to teach students… Continue reading Planting the Seed Program Grant
Artificial Hollows, Moorabool Shire
30 June 2023 ERA, in partnership with Moorabool Shire Council, recently installed 35 artificial hollows and four nest boxes across eleven privately-owned properties within the Moorabool Shire Council area (see here for more details on this project). ERA has a strong focus on science backed restoration and is currently undertaking multiple research projects on the… Continue reading Artificial Hollows, Moorabool Shire
Stop Press! Greater Gliders in our Artificial Hollows
6 June 2023 The day has finally arrived! We are beyond excited that we have found two nationally Endangered Greater Gliders (Petauroides volans) using our artificial hollows here in Wombat State Forest, Victoria. Greater gliders rely on large, old, hollow-bearing trees for shelter during the day and to breed. Greater Gliders are therefore impacted by… Continue reading Stop Press! Greater Gliders in our Artificial Hollows
Hollow Monitoring with Holmesglen TAFE
24 May 2023 The ERA team recently helped train some lucky Holmesglen TAFE students how to monitor artificial hollows we installed in Wombat State Forest. Students were taught how to climb trees safely to install monitoring cameras, and then how to monitor the cameras once installed. Here’s some footage of some cute Feathertail Gliders (Acrobates… Continue reading Hollow Monitoring with Holmesglen TAFE
Rope Bridge Installation, Wombat State Forest
16 May 2023 The storms of June 2021 resulted in the loss of many large trees across the Hepburn Shire and surrounding area, resulting in large gaps in the canopy that will not regrow for many years. ERA, in partnership with Hepburn Shire Council, DEECA and the local community, is creating and installing wildlife rope… Continue reading Rope Bridge Installation, Wombat State Forest
Wildlife Rope Bridges, Macedon Ranges
7 December 2022 Expanding on our ongoing project with Hepburn Shire Council, we are also pleased to announce a similar partnership with Macedon Ranges Shire Council, supported by DELWP’s Storm Recovery funding. Facilitated by Macedon Ranges Shire Council, we are running a series of canopy rope bridge building workshops for the local community, where people… Continue reading Wildlife Rope Bridges, Macedon Ranges
Hollow Creation Update, Wombat State Forest
14 December 2022 Earlier in the year, our team installed more than 100 artificial hollows in areas of the Wombat and Cobaw State Forests impacted by the 2021 storms. We placed a number of remote cameras out during installation to monitor the hollows. We got some immediate interest from an Agile Antechinus, Feather-tailed Gliders and… Continue reading Hollow Creation Update, Wombat State Forest
