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New round of Port Phillip Bay Fund Grants – Close 18 April 2024

New round of Port Phillip Bay Fund Grants – Close 18 April 2024

From FriendsNET (19/3/24)… New round of Port Phillip Bay Fund Grants – Close 18 April 2024 Since 2016, the Port Phillip Bay fund has provided more than $13.9 million in grants across 187 projects in and around the Bay. Port Phillip Bay or Narrm-Narrm (or…

Have your say on the future planning for the Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program

Have your say on the future planning for the Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program

From FriendsNET (12/2/24)… Have your say on the future planning for the Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program Consultation is now open for the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA)’s review of the Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program. The Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program provides significant support…

February Newsletter for Environmental Volunteers and Landcarers

February Newsletter for Environmental Volunteers and Landcarers

From DEECA…    February Newsletter for environmental volunteers and landcarers… In this edition: Grants Training  Opportunities Awards Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program survey Resources   Worth looking at: How Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme can provide environmental organisations with a new way to fundraise Join over 10,000 Australians on…

Update: Saving the Dandenongs

Update: Saving the Dandenongs

From Victorian National Parks Association (10/1/24)… Nature is spectacular. People like you and I understand it as a vast network of connected beings that we are one part of. Others see themselves as separate to nature. They see it as a resource, something to dominate,…

Friends Group newsletter, spring 2023

Friends Group newsletter, spring 2023

Friends Group newsletter, Spring 2023   Welcome    Mornington Peninsula Friends Group Network acknowledges and pays respect to the elders, families and ancestors of the Bunurong people, who have been the custodians of this land, sky and sea for many thousands of years.  We acknowledge…

An invitation to the Port Phillip Conservation Council AGM

An invitation to the Port Phillip Conservation Council AGM

Dear Friends of Port Phillip Conservation Council You are all warmly invited to attend our forthcoming AGM, and to forward this invitation to your colleagues and other interested persons. Details below.   Port Phillip Conservation Council Inc. 2023 AGM   THURSDAY 30th NOVEMBER 2023 at…

Endorse an Open Letter to the the Premier to stop logging

Endorse an Open Letter to the the Premier to stop logging

From  Victorian National Parks Association, an invitation to help in their campaign…   An Open Letter to the the Premier Two and a half years ago we did something big for nature in the west. For the dusty paws of Brush-tailed Phascogales in the Wombat, the Monitor Lizards…

Invitation  to help BERG celebrate achievements this year

Invitation to help BERG celebrate achievements this year

From the Balcombe Estuary Reserves Group in Mt Martha, an invitation…   Please join us for a celebration of all the good things that you have helped BERG achieve this year It’s a great opportunity to meet other BERGers for some food and fun. WHEN:…

MEA participates in the Seniors Festival

MEA participates in the Seniors Festival

MEA participates in the Seniors Festival with the “Tanti Creek: Walk, Talk and Morning Tea event” Mornington Environment Association (MEA) is pleased to have contributed to the Seniors Festival with this event led by Tanti Creek Friends. Sixteen sprightly seniors enjoyed a fascinating ramble around…

October MEA Meeting this Thursday

October MEA Meeting this Thursday

A reminder that the October meeting  of the Mornington Environment Association  will be this Thursday, October 12 It will be held be via Zoom to make it easier to attend. Agenda is as usual with 2 items to be discussed: l. Land use at Moorooduc adjoining Green…