Here at Merri Creek Management Committee, we celebrated the incredible commitment of volunteers the world over, on International Volunteers Day in December as well as year-round. Thank you!

Volunteers like you achieve so much for the Merri Creek: cleaning up litter, serving on committees to ensure the work of volunteer groups is effective, sharing a connection to nature with others, testing water-quality, planting trees, weeding and monitoring birds and other species. Happy International Volunteers’ Day to all our wonderful volunteers!

Hear from our WaterWatch and Litter Clean-up Coordinator, Julia Cirillo, together with some of the wonderful volunteers from the Merri Platypus Paddle Group about why volunteering makes so much of an impact – for us and for those who do it – in this video.

MCMC's Julia Cirillo with Colin Abbott, Heather Harris and Helena Kelada from the Merri Platypus Paddle Group talk about the joys of volunteering. 

Find out more about volunteering with the Friends of Merri Creek or the Merri Creek Management Committee.

Video kindly shared by the Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Action.