Friends of Merri Creek & Wallan Environment Group

The Friends of Merri Creek and the Wallan Environment Group are independent voluntary community groups that play an important role in the Merri Creek Management Committee (MCMC). Together, these two Friends groups nominate a total of seven representatives to the MCMC Committee of Management and through this, have input to MCMC and its policies. Friends groups are involved in ecological restoration works, activities, citizen science and planning along the Merri Creek and its important tributaries including Wallan Creek, Edgars Creek and Malcolm Creek. 

Friends of Merri Creek

replantingThe Friends of Merri Creek share the Merri Creek Management Committee's goal to protect and restore the Merri Creek Parklands. Accordingly, members are offered the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of activities, including:

  • Revegetation and ecological restoration;
  • Waterway clean-up and litter control;
  • Campaigns on key issues such as protection of native grasslands;
  • Publications, newsletters and social media;
  • Walks, talks and tours;
  • Monitoring of stream health;
  • Bird surveys.

Anyone can become a Friend of Merri Creek and new members are welcome. Members receive a regular e-newsletter on current issues and forthcoming activities. Friends of Merri Creek has a number of subgroups which focus on specific areas, e.g. Edgars Creek, or have a specific interest, e.g the Stream Team.  You can find information on these subgroups here.

All Merri events are listed on our events calendar.

Contact  or write to PO Box 93, Moreland 3058.  

Wallan Environment Group

The Wallan Environment Group works to create a more liveable Wallan by engaging the community in restoring, enhancing & preserving the natural environment with the aim to achieve abundant & significant networks of native flora, fauna & passive recreation areas that the community appreciates and values. Wallan lies near the headwaters of the Merri catchment.

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Other Friends Groups

There are a number of other Friends groups and organisations working to protect and enhance biodiversity and parklands in the Merri Creek catchment.

Contact  if you can't find a group in your local area. We may be able to help.