Biolinks Alliance

Thank you to all our supporters who helped us go BIG for nature this year 🍃 In 2025, we’re set to scale up even more. Watch this space for how you can get involved. #RestoreNature #ProtectNature #CentralVictoria #BiolinksAlliance

This endangered Brush-tailed Phascogale was spotted by our team when out spotlighting last night! Spotlighting is a key activity in our ongoing monitoring program as part of our Spring Plains Watershed Repair Pilot Project. It help us to assess mammal populations post the ecological restoration works at this Box-Ironbark forest. Citizen Scientists who joined in the spotlighting also had the thrill of seeing this adorable phascogale! Want to experience the enchantment of seeing our native wildlife at play and contribute to their survival as a Citizen Scientist? Go here: https://lnkd.in/gxsUG-TE #CitizenScience #EndangeredAnimals #RestoreNature #ProtectNature #BiolinksAlliance Images credit: Cameron O'Mara, Biolinks Alliance Project Facilitator

Psst... take a moment to check out these beautiful bird photos by our Ecologist, Dr. Christopher Pocknee. We've been busy conducting our annual bird surveys at Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve as part of our Watershed Repair Pilot Project at this Box-Ironbark forest. These surveys follow BirdLife Australia's systematic 2 ha/20 minute search guidelines and take place annually in Spring to inform us about how the bird community is responding to our interventions as part of this ambitious project. 🦜 If you're a bird buff and would like to get involved and help our ecologists complete these surveys, please feel free to get in touch! 🦜 We have a small number remaining to complete this month and will be repeating this monitoring again next Spring. Images 1. Scarlet Robin 2. Fan-tailed Cuckoo 3. Fuscous Honeyeater 4. Common Bronzewing 5. Superb Fairy-wren 6. Sacred Kingfisher 7. Crested Shrike-tit 8. Yellow-tufted Honeyeater 9. Brown Treecreeper Image credits: Dr. Chris Pocknee, Biolinks Alliance Ecologist #BirdLove #ProtectBirds #BirdHabitat #NatureEducation #CitizenScience #CitizenScienceProject #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #BiolinksAlliance

Miss our highly popular Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium? You can watch the recordings of the incredible presentations from experts and restoration practitioners now. 🌟Go here: https://lnkd.in/gnPX49A4 This is your opportunity to learn from internationally recognised researchers from leading institutions (like the University of Melbourne), experts in their fields, and restoration practitioners working on exemplar projects (like Marna Banggara and Mt Rothwell Sanctuary). Topics include (plus more!): 🦎Marna Banggara - Rewilding the Southern Yorke Peninsula 🦎Keys to the Biodiverse City 🦎Rewilding invertebrates and microbes for improved biodiversity and ecosystem function 🦎Panel discussion - The varied roles of predators in rewilding 🦎Restoring function to degraded Box-Ironbark Forests 🦎How did the Bandicoot cross the road? A case study in effective road ecology solutions 🦎Mt Rothwell Sanctuary - a safe haven for threatened species #RewildingSymposium24 #BiolinksAlliance #CentralVictoria #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #NatureEducation #Expertise

Join us for 🐝The Critical Role of Pollinators In Protecting Biodiversity Webinar 🐝- an intriguing look at how pollinators and other invertebrates are the backbone to our ecosystems. Insects do all sorts of weird and fascinating things. Hear from Ecologist Dr. Mark Hall, Senior Biodiversity Officer at City of Greater Bendigo, about... 🪲 A range of insect pollinators you can see in your garden or bushland 🪲 How to tell them apart an 🪲 What they do that makes them so special Date: Wednesday 23 October, 2024 Time: 6-7pm (AEST) Location: Online via Zoom Register: https://lnkd.in/g8xnUceX (spaces are limited) A dedicated Question and Answer section with our presenter provides you the chance to ask your questions. The Webinars in our 2024 Monthly Webinar Series are booking out quickly - so make sure to register for this Webinar today! Image: A beetle on a yellow everlasting flower (Xerochrysum viscosum) Image credit: Cameron O'Mara, Biolinks Alliance Project Facilitator #BiolinksAlliance #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #NatureEducation #Pollinators #Invertebrates #Biodiversity

Want to see Greater Gliders in real time? Learn more by following the link to researcher Ana Gracanin’s very cool live stream of these endangered creatures of the night.

Are you wondering how to get involved in our work? We have LOADS of Citizen Science opportunities coming up - spotlighting to see mammals like this adorable Krefft’s Glider, and reptile and nocturnal invertebrate surveys. Go here for registrations and more details: https://lnkd.in/gxsUG-TE This is great chance to learn from our team! Volunteers through Citizen Science are the backbone to our monitoring at our cutting-edge Spring Plains Watershed Repair Pilot Project. Image: Krefft’s Glider seen while spotlighting Image credit: Dr. Chris Pocknee, Biolinks Alliance Ecologist #CitizenScience #NatureEducation #VolunteeringOpportunities #RestoreNature #BiolinksAlliance

We're just coming up for breath after what was a fascinating and thought-provoking two days at our Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium (13-14 September). Here are some photos of the Site Visits to our very own Spring Plains Pilot Project and Korong Ridge Conservation Estate - showing the practical delivery of rewilding by restoring function to ecosystems. With an incredible program of presentations from experts and practitioners at the Symposium at La Trobe University in Bendigo - many conversations were started about how we can collectively catalyse and scale-up urgent action in our region. Collaboration after all is key! Missed out on attending the Symposium? Don't worry - we recorded all the presentations! Subscribe to know when they are released: https://lnkd.in/gMhf42hZ Thanks again to our generous Symposium Sponsors - including Gold Sponsor TREC Land Services and Supporting Sponsors North Central Catchment Management Authority Goulburn Broken CMA Cassinia Environmental City of Greater Bendigo FRRR (Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal) Global Green Environmental Images: Site Visits to our Spring Plains Pilot Project and Korong Ridge Conservation Estate Image credits: Sasha Dobson, Biolinks Alliance Programs Manager and Cameron O'Mara, Biolinks Alliance Project Facilitator #RewildingSymposium24 #BiolinksAlliance #CentralVictoria #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #NatureEducation

Ticket sales close 4pm (AEST) tomorrow (Wednesday 4 September)! Head here for Tickets and Program: https://lnkd.in/gkmr4h7x Our Biolinks Alliance team has been busy organising what is set to be an incredible program for you at our upcoming Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium (13-14 September 2024) in Bendigo. If you haven't yet purchased your tickets, make sure to do so quickly! Bringing together internationally recognised researchers from leading institutions (like University of Melbourne), experts in their fields, and restoration practitioners working on exemplar projects (like Marna Banggara and Mt Rothwell Sanctuary), this event is truly not to be missed. Hear also from Ecologist Lance Lloyd, Restoration Scientist (Aquatic Ecology) at Winton Wetlands as the Keynote Speaker at our Symposium Dinner (Friday 13 September 2024). #RewildingSymposium24 #BiolinksAlliance #CentralVictoria #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #NatureEducation

One of our exciting presenters at our upcoming Rewilding Central Victoria Symposium is Amos Atkinson from Wannyarra Woka - who is speaking about: Ecological and cultural benefits of fire in grassy ecosystems. Amos lives on Bangarang/Yorta Yorta lands, and is a proud Way Wurru, Bangarang, Dja Dja Wurrung, Barrapa Barrapa, Wemba Wemba, Daug Wurrung, Ngura-iliam Wirring, Wiradjuri man. He is a cultural fire practitioner who has learnt from Aboriginal people all over Australia and has brought this knowledge back to Victoria to help heal and care for Country. For Symposium Tickets and Program: https://lnkd.in/gkmr4h7x #RewildingSymposium24 #BiolinksAlliance #CentralVictoria #ProtectNature #RestoreNature #NatureEducation