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NAIDOC Week Bangerang Community Day
2025-07-08 11:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | 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

Street Harvest
2025-07-14 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-07-21 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-07-28 09:30 - 12:30, 2025-08-04 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.

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, 2025-07-22 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-07-24 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-07-25 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-08-01 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-08-05 09:30 - 13:00 and 2 more dates | 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.

Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists outing: Wonga Wetlands walk followed by lunch at Sodens Hotel, Albury
2025-07-26 10:00 - 15:00 | Wonga Wetlands, 2377 Riverina Hwy, Splitters Creek, NSW, 2640, Australia
Join the Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists for a walk exploring Wonga Wetlands, followed by lunch at Soden’s Hotel, 459 Wilson Street, Albury
Meet at Wonga Wetlands carpark, Saturday 26 July 2025, at 10am
Lunch at Sodens Hotel, commencing from 12 noon approx.
For further information contact 0400 141 181
Pets are not permitted on Albury Wodonga Field Naturalists excursions

ACF Sydney online screening of 'Corals' Last Stand' film
2025-07-28 19:30 - 20:30 | Online
As you are probably aware, the new federal Environment Minister, Murray Watt, has recently approved an extension of the Woodside gas production facility near Karratha in Western Australia for 40 years, until 2070. This is an appalling decision but our attention now needs to turn to stopping Woodside’s proposal to drill for gas in the Browse Basin near Scott Reef. If we can do that, we will significantly reduce the supply of gas to the Karratha facility.
Scott Reef is a truly magical place, home to a wide variety of marine life including pygmy blue whales and green turtles. And it will be under serious threat if drilling at Browse Basin goes ahead. Corals’ Last Stand is a beautiful film about Scott Reef and how important it is that it be protected.
ACF AWR, ACF GWS and other groups are hoping that the film will help build a movement in the communities of Greater Western Sydney, and in other places across Australia, in support of effective nature protection and an end to approving new and expanded fossil fuel projects.
On Monday 28 July at 7.30pm, ACF Greater Western Sydney Community Group is hosting an online screening of the film Corals’ Last Stand. ACF AWR and other groups will also be participating in this screening. We hope you will be able to join us for this wonderful film.
Please register here.

Kiewa River Wetlands Planting Days
2025-07-29 09:30 - 13:00, 2025-07-31 09:30 - 13:00 | Kiewa River Wetlands, Kenneth Watson Drive, Bandiana, Australia
Join us to plant native grasses and shrubs into the channel and abutting floodplain on the Kiewa River wetlands.
When: 9:30 am to 1 pm.
Where: Park at the entrance to Huon Hill. See below.
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 register here!
Thank you to the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal for their financial support for the “Restoring Bonegilla’s blue carbon sink wetlands and waterways” project.

Birdlife Ovens and Murray/Birds on Farms SNSW August Outing
2025-08-02 09:00 - 12:00 | Brimin, Victoria – directions provided on RSVP, Brimin, Victoria, Australia
This month’s outing is a collaboration with the Birds on Farms SNSW team
Everyone is welcome to this August outing (and any other Ovens and Murray outing) which is a free guided birdwatching workshop on a bird-friendly farm in the Ovens and Murray region, led by our wonderful Birds on Farm team. This workshop will

introduce you to new birders and landholders
provide you simple ways you can help Save Birds. Save Life.

You will also be able to

Share your bird knowledge in a friendly relaxed environment.
Learn Bird ID skills, and how to make your place more bird-friendly
Explore exclusive Birds on Farms monitoring sites with experienced local birders

If you’d like to learn more about creating bird-friendly habitats, to visit new birding sites, or just love birds please come along.

When: Saturday 2 August 2025, 9am to 12 noon. Morning tea will be provided.
Where: Brimin, Victoria (directions will be provided on RSVP).
What to bring: Sturdy footwear, binoculars (if you have them), a water bottle and a
birding friend!
This experience includes walking ~3km around the farm.

To attend this event you will need to RSVP to Darcy Creece darcy.creece@birdlife.org.au

Repair Cafe Albury-Wodonga Inc
2025-08-02 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.

Banking on Trees Community Planting Morning
2025-08-03 09:00 - 11:00 | Ryans Lagoon, Ryans Rd, Bonegilla, Victoria, 3691, Australia
The annual BankWAW planting morning is on again this winter. Thank you to BankWAW who donates the cost of plants, guards, and stakes for each new bank account opened in the previous year.
This year efforts will contribute towards establishing much needed canopy cover between Ryans Lagoon North and Ryans Lagoon. It will support Traditional Owner aspirations for this site and create a wildlife refuge for native fauna to help them adapt to the changing climate.
When: 9:00 am to 11:00 am.
Where: Park on Trabants Rd., Bonegilla, just off the junction of Snowdons Rd. and Ryans Rd.
What to bring: Closed shoes and long pants as the ground might be muddy. Also please bring your own water.

What will be provided:
• All tools, equipment, materials, and gloves (unless you want to bring your own gloves).
• BBQ lunch will include sausages, bread, and sauce. Those with special dietary requirements, please BYO.
Please register here!

About this event: Did you know that every time an account is opened at BankWAW, they plant a tree?
Trees create endless amounts of good. They clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity.
Planting a tree is also one of the easiest and cheapest ways to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. It’s also the easiest way that we, as individuals, can reduce our own footprint.

Friends of Chiltern-Mt Pilot National Park, Field Day (morning)
2025-08-03 09:00 - 12:00 | Meet at Chiltern Post Office, 54 Main Street, Chiltern, Victoria, 3683, Australia
Revegetation work in the National Park. 200 plants are ready to go into the ground so come and join in! Parks Vic will be digging the holes so we can do the fun bit. Meet at Chiltern Post Office and we will car pool from there. If you have them bring a pick or small shovel, hand trowel and secateurs. Bring gardening gloves, sturdy shoes/gum boots, warm/wet weather clothes. ‘Friends’ will provide sweet stuff for morning tea. BYO beverage and something to sit on.

Albury Agrihood Village Information Session
2025-08-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Glenecho Community Centre, 949 Burrows Road, Glenroy, 2640
Are you curious about how farming, community, and modern living can come together in a regenerative kind of farm lifestyle on the edge of a regional town?
Join us for an information session about an agrihood model set to move forward in the Albury region.
Regenerating Land. Building Community. Growing Opportunities.

🌾 This session is perfect for:
• Landowners & food growing enthusiasts interested in collaboration
• Tree-changers and Eco-housing fans
• Local food, sustainability, and housing investors
• Anyone curious about regenerative, community-led land projects

👨‍🌾 What You’ll Learn:
• What an agrihood is (with real examples)
• How this model fits rural Australia and Albury
• Opportunities for jobs, housing, and tourism
• How YOU can be part of shaping the first agrihood project in the region

More information and tickets: events.humanitix.com/albury-agrihood
