Over spring/summer 2021, MCMC's Ecological Restoration Team conducted targeted surveys for Striped Legless Lizard (Delmar impar) at multiple sites in the Western Grassland Reserve for the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. After many long days flipping tiles, the team were delighted to report multiple Striped Legless Lizard sightings, including finding three of the rare lizards under the one tile!

We recently finished our 2022 burn program - the biggest ever! Eleven ecological burns were conducted at a range of sites across greater Melbourne. MCMC worked with Darebin City Council to burn Ngarri-djarrang grassland in Reservoir and undertoook burns at a number of Merri grassland sites in Fawkner.  We also conducted burns at Braybrook Grassland, under contract for the Department of Transport, and at rail corridor sites for Metro Trains Melbourne. In order to successfully carry out our burn program, all our Ecological Restoration Team members completed ‘Assist with prescribed burn’ training in April 2022, including six new team members who recently joined us.

This recording is useful for those with indigenous gardens at home or in school grounds.

Our Poa story was recorded in March 2021. It focuses on the valuable seed and the benefits of harvesting it in Iuk (Woi-wurrung language for Short-finned eel) Season on Wurundjeri Country.

Galada Tamboore (meaning “Stream waterhole”) is one of the most spectacular sites along Merri Creek and is a place of great significance to the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. Galada Tamboore supports critically endangered Native Grassland and provides refuge to at least eight threatened species of flora and fauna. This Native Grassland is the focus of our project.

Our 2022 Grasslands of Galada Tamboore project provided an array of activities to bring the area's wonders to a wider audience. Volunteers  had opportunities to meaningfully connect with the site and its cultural, ecological and geological values. We want to grow a volunteer group for the area, build up skills and knowledge, grow threatened plants, harvest and sow their seed, and free the grassland from noxious weeds.

The project was launched on 12 March 2022 and it was followed by events in April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November and a celebration of the end of the project, with a picnic and a wander in December 2022.