Sustainability
Explore nature this spring
The family fun was in full action as Junior Rangers participated in activities such as Minibeast Discovery, Wild Detectives and Rockpool Rambles!
We enjoyed learning and sharing the knowledge that rangers have from managing parks.
Visit our website to continue learning in nature with these spring activities suitable for you and your family. Find out more.
Fire Activity Book
Download the Fire Activity Book to learn all about how rangers prepare for summer in parks. As we start to prepare for summer, learn about the work park rangers get up to in managing the landscape, preparing for a hot summer.
Fire is an important part of maintaining healthy parks. Many of our plants and animals have adapted to survive fire in different ways.
Parks Victoria rangers work together with Forest Fire Management to ensure parks are well cared for, using fire in different ways to help manage the landscape.
The Grade 6 Sustainability Leaders completed the Aussie Bird Count at St Finbar's last week spending 20 minutes out in the playground to count bird life in the school grounds.
Date: Monday 14 October 2024
Time: 1:17 pm
Duration: 20 minutes
Observers: 1
Sightings:
Common Myna × 3
Little Raven × 2
Crescent Honeyeater × 3
Rock Dove × 4
Australian Magpie × 2
The Aussie Bird Count aims to engage school communities in the natural world while getting to know the birds in their local schoolyard through participation in a simple, fun, all-ages activity that can be done anywhere.
By taking part in the Aussie Bird Count the students will become citizen scientists. Citizen science creates opportunities for students to connect with the natural world, gain scientific skills, and learn about topics such as life cycles, habitats, adaptations, and interrelationships. This can be a gateway to many exciting discoveries and creates a partnership between the students and professional scientists to help answer questions scientists couldn’t answer on their own.
The initial results are in!
This year, 69,751 people around the country joined the Aussie Bird Count! Thank you so much for being one of them.
By getting outside and counting the birds around you, you're helping inform the conservation efforts that help us understand and protect native birds and their habitat right across Australia. If you're keen to learn more about attracting birds to your backyard, check out the webinar our Manager of Priority Sites, Holly Parsons, ran last week. It’s packed with tips, tricks and meaningful conservation actions.
What's next?
Last chance: submit last week's counts If you haven't submitted any of your counts from Bird Week, hop onto the Aussie Bird Count app or our online webform by Wednesday 23 October.