Birding for Beginners and Avid Adventurers on Browns Island
2025-06-19 09:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Bandiana Link Road., Wodonga, Australia
Join us for a morning of birdwatching at our hidden gem, Browns Island. This Murray River Island is located near Gateway Island between Albury and Wodonga.
The morning will feature an introduction to birding from BirdLife Australia’s Ben Humphries and a guided bird walk around some of Browns Island where 20-minute bird surveys will be conducted. These sightings will help guide our restoration efforts on Browns Island over the next three years of an Urban Rivers project, and you will learn about local bird species, habitat, and conservation actions.
With low river levels, we will likely be able to walk across to the Island through Wodonga Creek, so you’ll need your gumboots! If you don’t have any, Parklands can supply you with a pair. If river levels rise, a Canadian canoe will be on hand to shuttle us across to the island.
Morning tea will be provided between birding sites.
When: Thursday 19 June, 9 am to midday.
Where: Park off Bandiana Link, Wodonga then walk 400 m to creek crossing site (see Birding Morning map).
What: Easy grade walk around Browns Island.
What to bring: Please wear walking boots or enclosed shoes and carry gumboots for the creek crossing. Consider the weather and please wear a hat and bring a jacket if cool. Bring drinking water and snacks. Bring binoculars if you have them.
Please register here so we know you’re coming and can contact you in case things change before the event!
This activity is kindly funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust under the Urban Rivers and Catchments Program.

Project Sprout – Community Planting Days, Wodonga
2025-06-20 08:00 - 2025-06-29 17:00 | various locations across Wodonga, check sessions for more detail
The Wodonga community is invited to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty this winter as Project Sprout launches an ambitious revegetation program that will build on 13 years of volunteer work through Landcare to transform the city’s parks, trails, and waterways into vibrant green corridors teeming with native wildlife.
Project Sprout – Sustaining Parks: Restoring Our Urban Terrain – aims to plant over 7,000 native tube stock across multiple locations throughout Wodonga, creating vital wildlife corridors that will connect the Wodonga hills and waterways directly through the city to the Murray River.
These planting events are co-hosted by Wodonga Urban Landcare Network and our many member groups, across Wodonga, over 10 days at the end of June.
Pick a time and a place that works for you and come along!
Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves and trowel – we will provide for those who don’t have their own.
Please register – we’ll keep you posted and remind you when to warm up your planting muscles.
If you would like more information about these events please email info@wodongalandcare.org.au.
Project Sprout is proudly supported by Landcare Australia and BUPA.

Cultural Conversation: Fire In The Landscape
2025-06-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Join Duduroa Elders Uncle Allan Murray & Uncle Phil Murray together with Luritja/Aranda Elder Uncle Vince Forrester, Bill Gammage, author of The Biggest Estate on Earth and landholder Bridget Doyle for a fire forum Q & A.
Come along and learn firsthand about traditional fire practices & their importance in the landscape for the healing of Culture and Country as well as contemporary land management in a changing climate. Be a part of the knowledge sharing.

Visit to Alison's Garden including seed saving talk
2025-06-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Address details available to registered attendees
Seed Savers Albury Wodonga member, Alison, is opening her garden in Wodonga again to allow us to view the ongoing transformation of her large suburban backyard into a bountiful self-sufficiency garden. She and her husband make their own compost and mulch, save seeds and grow cuttings to produce a vast range of mainly edible crops.
Alison gave a very well received talk on seed saving at the off Grid Living festival earlier this year and will repeat it as part of this gardening tour. She is a very knowledgeable gardener and is generous with her advice.
The seed bank will not be available at this event but if you have cleaned seed to be deposited, please bring it along. Also excess produce or plants.
Alison invites participants to bring lunch and stay after the tour to share discussion with like-minded gardeners.

Free event but booking required as numbers limited
https://events.humanitix.com/alison-s-garden-tour

Street Harvest
2025-06-23 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-06-30 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-07-07 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-07-14 09:30 - 12:30 | Uniting, Wodonga, 1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga, Vic, 3690, Australia
The Street Harvest project is being reinvigorated – Please consider growing an extra row of produce in your garden to support this project and Uniting in Wodonga.
All produce can be dropped off at Uniting (1 Nilmar Avenue, Wodonga between. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday to Friday).
The project builds and encourages community capacity and improves food security for Wodonga residents by distributing excess fruit and vegetables, harvested from residential gardens, to local residents and emergency food relief agencies.
‘Street Harvest’ was a pilot project developed in Wodonga in 2010. The Street Harvest Project grew out of a passion for transforming the local food system into one that is sustainable and strong.

Yindyamarra and Horseshoe Lagoon Community Stewardship Morning
2025-06-26 09:00 - 11:00 | Horseshoe Lagoon, Riverina Hwy, Albury, Australia
Join Parklands Rangers to help find and remove woody weeds such as privet, olive, cherry plum, wild tobacco, and hawthorn in this beautiful reserve.
This is an opportunity to work alongside our Rangers experiencing the ‘how to’ of caring for our local bush. No experience is necessary – our Rangers will help with weed identification and removal techniques.
Take in the fresh air, get close to nature, and learn about the local environment and how Albury City and community groups are working to protect threatened species, improve habitat, and link habitat corridors across the region.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am (2 hrs)
Where: Meet at the Horseshoe Lagoon car park.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Who: You can contact Ranger Dan on 0417501352.
Please register here! Sometimes things change at the last minute and we need to be able to contact volunteers.
Thank you to Albury City Council for financial support for this program.

Browns Island Walk n’ Gawk
2025-06-27 09:00 - 12:00 | Bandiana Link Road., Wodonga, Australia
In case you miss the Birding for Beginners and Avid Adventurers (on 19 June), there will be a longer 9 km walk with Parklands Albury Wodonga Rangers around Browns Island. This Murray River Island is located near Gateway Island between Albury and Wodonga.
The morning will feature a guided bushwalk around Browns Island to learn about the natural and cultural values of this hidden gem, and the conservation actions underway.
With low water levels, we will likely be able to walk across to the island through Wodonga Creek, so you’ll need your gumboots! If you don’t have any, Parklands can supply you with a pair. If river levels rise, a Canadian canoe will be on hand to shuttle us across to the island.
Morning tea will be provided.
When: Friday 27 June, 9 am to midday.
Where: Park off Bandiana Link, Wodonga then walk 400 m to creek crossing site (see Browns Island walk map).
What: Medium grade 9 km walk around Browns Island.
What to bring: Please wear walking boots or enclosed shoes and carry gumboots for the creek crossing. Consider the weather and please wear a hat and bring a jacket if cool. Bring drinking water and snacks. Bring binoculars if you have them.
Please register here so we know you’re coming and can contact you in case things change before the event!
This activity is kindly funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust under the Urban Rivers and Catchments Program.

Beechworth area walk
2025-06-28 10:00 - 15:00 | Beechworth, Victoria
Join the Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists for a walk in the Beechworth area, to explore the fauna and flora in the area
Meet at the Beechworth Court House, Ford Street, Beechworth at 10am on Saturday, 28 June, 2025.
Pets are not permitted on AWFN field excursions
For further information about the outing Telephone: 0490 497 032

Fungi & Tree Tour – Woomargama – Morning
2025-06-29 11:00 - 13:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Join fungi enthusiast Tracie MacVean and arborist Tristan Black on a walk to learn about the diversity and curiosities of trees and the fungi kingdom.
Learn about the anatomy of mushrooms and their relationships with plants and walk away with the basics of how to identify mushrooms in the field. Discover how to contribute to our understanding of native fungi by becoming a citizen scientist and sharing your observance on platforms such as iNaturalist.
This walk will take place in Woomargama National Park, which is the largest protected area of forest west of the Great Dividing Range.
Roughly 2 and a half hours each walk.
This event is not suitable for young children.
The GPS coordinates for the meeting location is 35.89838° S, 147.33619° E
Please note there is not much reception for this area. Please be prepared for winter weather conditions.
25% off for return attendees, please contact for a discount code.

Fungi & Tree Tour – Woomargama – Afternoon
2025-06-29 14:00 - 16:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia

Border Bushwalking Club - Morses Creek
2025-07-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
The walk is fairly flat, with no steep hills. We will start at Mystic Mountain Bike Park trailhead and follow the track to the Chinese swing bridge and the area known as the Diggings, the former goldfields of Wandiligong, our lunch spot.
Grade 2/3
Leader: Deb
Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
Distance 10 km approx
Participant numbers:Up to 10
Final booking date: Mon 30/6
“For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Invasive Grass ID and Removal at Baranduda
2025-07-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Baranduda Regional Park, Howards Road car park, Baranduda, VIC, 3691, Australia
Help us protect our precious native grasslands by learning how to identify fountain grass and other garden escapees as well as the various techniques to control these new and emerging grass weed species.
We will walk along the Water Rat fire trail in Baranduda Regional Park building our grass ID skills, then chip out and bag an area where fountain grass has started to spread.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park at the Howards Road carpark, Baranduda. Turn at the Fire Access Gate sign on Howards Rd.

What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Who: You can contact Ranger Dan on 0417501352.
Please register here so we know you’re coming and can contact you in case things change before the event.
This project is financially supported by the Victorian Government’s Partnerships Against Pests Program.

Friends of Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park, Field Day (morning)
2025-07-05 09:00 - 12:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Monthly field day : Saturday 5th July . Meet at 9am at Chiltern Post Office.
Activities: Removing olives at Mt Ochtertyre Scenic Reserve. Bring a mattock, gloves, sturdy shoes, warm clothes. ‘Friends’ will provide morning tea, BYO beverage.

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2025-07-05 10:00 - 13:00 | Wodonga Senior Citizens Centre, 15 Havelock Street, Wodonga, Victoria, 3690, Australia
Do you have a broken household item you’d like fixed but need a hand to do so? Then this is your opportunity.
Our Repair Café is a free meeting place to bring along broken household items such as furniture, clothing, textiles and battery-operated appliances and learn how to fix them with the help of experienced, volunteer repairers. You can also bring along small, blunt garden tools like secateurs and we’ll show you how to sharpen them. Maximum three items per person per session. A donation is greatly appreciated for the repair of your items. This covers the cost of our insurance and supplies used for these repairs.
For more information see: https://www.facebook.com/repaircafeaw/
Repair Café Albury-Wodonga is proudly supported by Halve Waste, with morning yummies donated by Kooka Brotha’s patisserie.

Birdlife Ovens and Murray July outing: Warbys-Ovens NP
2025-07-06 09:00 - 14:00 | Warby Ranges
A birding adventure in the Killawarra section of the Warby-Ovens NP with the potential to head up onto the Warby Range section. Led by Darcy Creece from the Birdlife Southern NSW Birds on Farms team.

Date: Sunday 6th July
Time: 9am - to at least lunchtime between 1-2pm
Meeting point: The Forest Camp in the Killawarra section of the Warby-Ovens NP.
Bring: binoculars, clothing suitable for the weather, good walking shoes/boots, morning tea and lunch,
a chair

NB: There is no obligation to stay for the duration of the outing: you can stay as long as you like and
leave when it suits you. Just let someone know you are leaving

Please contact ovensmurray@birdlife.org.au

Fungi & Tree Tour – Mt. Bogong – Morning
2025-07-06 11:00 - 13:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Join fungi enthusiast Tracie MacVean and arborist Tristan Black on a walk to learn about the diversity and curiosities of trees and the fungi kingdom.
Learn about the anatomy of mushrooms and their relationships with plants and walk away with the basics of how to identify mushrooms in the field. Discover how to contribute to our understanding of native fungi by becoming a citizen scientist and sharing your observance on platforms such as iNaturalist.
This walk will take place in the native wet sclerophyll forest, within 20 minutes from Tawonga.
The meeting place will be at Mountain Creek Camping and Picnic Area, Mountain Creek road, Tawonga VIC
Roughly 2 and a half hours each walk.
Public toilets will be nearby. Please dress for winter weather conditions.
This event is not suitable for young children.
Limited numbers available, please contact if you would like to book a group.
25% off for return attendees, please contact for a discount code

Fungi & Tree Tour – Mt. Bogong – Afternoon
2025-07-06 14:00 - 16:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia

NAIDOC Week Bangerang Community Day
2025-07-08 11:00 - 14:00 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
To celebrate NAIDOC week everyone is invited to a free family fun day at Northern Beaches, Wangaratta. Meet near the Scout Hall on College Street.

Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony
Bangerang culture including dance, weaving and woodworking
Circus arts workshops with the Flying Fruit Fly Circus
Animals of Oz wildlife display
Kids art and face painting
Free lunch

Free event, no booking required
For more information contact the Environment & Sustainability team 57220888 or environment@wangaratta.vic.gov.au

Fungi & Tree Tour – Beechworth – Morning
2025-07-09 11:00 - 13:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
Join fungi enthusiast Tracie MacVean and arborist Tristan Black on a walk to learn about the diversity and curiosities of trees and the fungi kingdom.
Learn about the anatomy of mushrooms and their relationships with plants and walk away with the basics of how to identify mushrooms in the field. Discover how to contribute to our understanding of native fungi by becoming a citizen scientist and sharing your observance on platforms such as iNaturalist.
This walk will take place in Beechworth, which has an impressive range of heritage listed trees and plenty of introduced and native fungi. The exact location will be released prior to the event.
Roughly 2 and a half hours each walk.
There are public toilets toilets and shelter nearby. Please dress for winter weather conditions.
This event is suitable for all ages.
Limited numbers available.
25% off for return attendees, please contact for a discount code.

CANCELLED Traditional Owner Walk at Browns Island
2025-07-11 09:00 - 12:00 | Bandiana Link Road., Wodonga, Australia
*Due to wet weather, this event WILL NOT take place on Fri 11 July. A new date for August will be published soon*

The morning will feature a short and slow guided bushwalk around Browns Island with Uncle Al from Duduroa Dhargal Aboriginal Corporation who will share his interpretation of the landscape on Browns Island. This Murray River Island is located near Gateway Island between Albury and Wodonga.

With low water levels, we will likely be able to walk across to the island through Wodonga Creek, so you’ll need your gumboots! If you don’t have any, Parklands can supply you with a pair. If river levels rise, a Canadian canoe will be on hand to shuttle us across to the island.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park off Bandiana Link, Wodonga then walk 400 m to creek crossing site (see Browns Island walk map).
What to bring: Please wear walking boots or enclosed shoes and carry gumboots for the creek crossing (and perhaps a second pair of dry socks). Consider the weather and please wear a hat and bring a jacket if cool. Bring drinking water and snacks.
Please register here so we know you’re coming and can contact you in case things change before the event!
This activity is kindly funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust under the Urban Rivers and Catchments Program.

Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists outing: Chiltern – Lake Anderson & Bartley’s Block
2025-07-13 10:00 - 15:00 | Chiltern, Victoria
Join the Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists exploring the flora and fauna in the Chiltern area, including around Lake Anderson and Bartley’s Block.
Meet at the Chiltern Swimming Pool carpark at 10am on Sunday, 13 July, 2025
For further information about the outing Telephone: 0428 215 313
Pets are not permitted on AWFN excursions

Border Bushwalking Club - Lake Sambell to Lake Kerford Beechworth
2025-07-15 08:00 - 16:30 | Check the event listing for venue details, Australia
A nice relaxing walk through tall eucalypt forests with evidence of past mining activity and if we’re lucky koalas, wombats and wallabies.

Grade 2/3
Leader: Deb
Phone: 0410047884 before 8pm
Distance 10 km approx
Participant numbers:Up to 10
Final booking date: Mon 14/7
For more information and updates about BBC activities, check www.borderbushwalkingclub.com.au

Reforestation at Ryans Lagoon
2025-07-15 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-07-18 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-07-20 09:00 - 11:00 | Ryans Lagoon, Ryans Rd, Bonegilla, Victoria, 3691, Australia
We are calling on workplaces and the community to participate in the landscape-scale plantings planned for Ryans Lagoon Wetlands this winter. The reforestation will restore the canopy layer and improve habitat values and connectivity along the restored 66km Murray River corridor as well as at the nationally and culturally significant Ryans Lagoon Wetlands. This project will help Traditional Owners deliver on their aspirations for this wetland site that is co-managed with Duduroa Dhargal Aboriginal Corporation’s Traditional Owners.
When: Weekdays 9:30 am to 1:00 pm; Sunday 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park on Trabants Rd., Bonegilla, just off the junction of Snowdons Rd. and Ryans Rd.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Please note: Carpooling is available for weekday sessions. If you wish to carpool from Gateway Village, please park along the Lincoln Causeway between Gateway Village and The Lincon, ready to leave by 9:00 am. You can let us know you wish to do this when you register.
Please register here!
Parklands gratefully acknowledges funding provided by the Victorian Government’s ‘BushBank’ program.

Invasive Grass ID and Removal at Bandiana
2025-07-17 09:00 - 11:00 | Army cinema, Anzac Pde., Bandiana, Australia
Help us protect our precious native grasslands by learning how to identify whiskey grass and African love grass as well as the various techniques to control these new and emerging grass weed species.
These highly competitive exotic grasses form dense, flammable stands and are nearly unpalatable for livestock.
We will walk along the High Country Rail Trail, building our grass ID skills along the way, then chip out and bag these invasive weeds.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park at the back of the Army Cinema car park next to the Blazing Stump Hotel.
What is supplied: All tools and any specific safety equipment needed.
What to bring: BYO drinking water. For your safety, please wear covered shoes (preferably boots), long pants, long sleeves, and a hat.
Who: You can contact Ranger Dan on 0417501352.
Please register here so we know you’re coming and can contact you in case things change before the event.
This project is financially supported by the Victorian Government’s Partnerships Against Pests Program.

Integrated Fox Management in Peri-urban Areas Workshop
2025-07-19 10:00 - 13:00 | Baranduda Community Centre, 3 Sage Ct, Baranduda, Victoria, Australia
Foxes are one of the most significant threats to our native biodiversity and they impact our livestock and agricultural production. This workshop offers an opportunity to engage with experts on fox behaviour and best practice control options at landscape scale with a focus on peri-urban areas and collaborative management.
Wodonga Urban Landcare Network is working with Agriculture Victoria to deliver this workshop on managing foxes in our area. The workshop with be held in two sessions outlined below.

The first session is a presentation and will focus on:

History, biology, behaviour
Impacts on the environment and biodiversity
Proven integrated management
Collaboration and landscape approach
Importance of humane and legal practice

The second session will be in the field for:

Identifying signs of foxes (and other possible pest species)
Demonstration of control techniques such as trapping and baiting
Assessing management options best suited to your problem and property

Please contact rhiannon@wodongalandcare.org.au if you have any questions.
Please register: events.humanitix.com/fox-mgmt-workshop

This event is the third workshop in our Partnership Against Pests workshop series ‘Growing capacity against invasives on small blocks’. We will be hosting three more events this year on woody weeds, herbaceous weeds and blackberries.
The ‘Growing capacity against invasives on small blocks’ project is supported by the Victorian Government through the Partnerships Against Pests program.
