Save a species with your wild ideas
Choose an animal close to your heart. Learn what’s threatening its survival and imagine new ways to help. Through Conservation Volunteers Australia, you can take action to restore and protect ecosystems on land and under water. This hands-on organisation empowers you to think big and care for nature.
Provide safe nests for local wildlife
Give birds, possums and microbats a safe place to call home. With so many native animals losing their habitat, nest boxes offer vital shelter to raise young. Landcare Australia’s Junior Landcare program helps children to learn about the natural environment and how they can take action to care for nature. With Junior Landcare they can learn where their food comes from, explore First Nations perspectives on caring for Country, and recycling to prevent plastic polluting our oceans.
Champion your favourite animal
Join a local wildlife conservation group and help protect Victoria’s native plants and animals. Connect with like-minded volunteers and get involved in hands-on efforts to care for country, species and special places across the state. The Victorian Environment Friends Network supports hundreds of community groups working together to create space for nature.
Protect backyard wildlife and keep your cat safe at home
Discover how keeping your cat safe and happy at home helps native wildlife to flourish. Safe Cat, Safe Wildlife is a joint initiative led by RSPCA Victoria and Zoos Victoria. They share practical tips to help cat owners provide their feline family members with their best life at home, while keeping our precious native wildlife safe.
Make the Yarra sparkle
Get involved in a clean-up day on your local river. If you’re in Melbourne, The Swimmable Birrarung initiative is a vital project aiming to bring the Birrarung Yarra River's habitat back to life — healthy, thriving, and swimmable from source to sea.
Join Australia’s largest litter clean-up day
Whether you’re flying solo, rolling with family, or rallying with your school crew, join Australia’s largest litter clean-up and take a stand against plastic pollution. Clean Up Australia inspires change and mobilises communities to help protect the environment, eliminate litter and end waste.
Learn about Indigenous plants
Discover the power indigenous plants have to conserve and restore biodiversity through the Milarri Gardens at Melbourne Museum. The plants in Milarri are predominantly indigenous Victorian plants, with native flora significant to the Aboriginal people of south-eastern Australia.
Protect, maintain and restore Victoria’s unique habitats
Get involved in diverse and rewarding volunteer activities with Parks Victoria. Whether it’s habitat restoration, revegetation, guided walks, or working bees, there’s something for everyone nearby. Through strong partnerships with Traditional Owners, conservation initiatives like Prom Sanctuary, and dedicated land management, Parks Victoria is working to protect Victoria’s special environments for generations to come. You can also help preserve what makes Victoria so special.
Be a friend of Merri Creek
Get hands-on with native planting, bird surveys, litter blitzes and nest boxing. Join regular creek-side activities that support biodiversity and keep Merri Creek thriving — no membership needed, just a love for nature and a passion for getting involved.
Give some love to Darebin Creek and Parklands
Support one of Australia’s oldest community environment groups and help care for Darebin Creek and Darebin Parklands. From planting days to education and advocacy, the Darebin Creek Management Committee supports a healthy creek system and promotes its natural and cultural values.
Local hero
Melbourne Pollinator Corridor
Emma Cutting, Founder of Heartscapes, Designer/Project Lead of the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor
Our native bees are incredibly important to our ecosystems and food security and, along with other native pollinating insects, are declining rapidly mainly due to habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation. When I realised that small barren pieces of land in cities could be transformed into something valuable for native pollinators, I immediately started designing and creating the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor. In addition to supporting urban wildlife, these patches full of care and Indigenous plants also connect hundreds of thousands of humans to nature every year. By helping people connect to and experience nature, they are more likely to care for and act to protect nature, inside and outside of cities. The Melbourne Pollinator Corridor has contributed to increasing the range of pollinators and even changed council policy! It demonstrates how this type of conservation can work and the opportunities it presents to help address the climate crisis, biodiversity crisis and the mental health crisis.
