Live a plastic-free life
Protect marine life and fight plastic pollution in our oceans. Simple everyday changes can reduce plastic waste and help keep our oceans clean and thriving.
Protect your local beach
Connect with the coast and community projects that keep your beach clean and improve biodiversity. With Landcare Australia’s Coastcare program, you can be a landcare volunteer by helping to restore native fauna and flora and tackle challenges like dune erosion, rubbish removal and stormwater pollution along the Australian coastline.
Discover secrets beneath the waves
Pack your goggles and become besotted with the mysteries of the underwater world as you learn to identify fish with Fishes of Australia.
Nurture and protect Grey Nurse Sharks
Join a passionate community of divers and marine lovers to safeguard critically endangered Grey Nurse Sharks on Australia’s east coast. Help monitor the health of these sharks, track their whereabouts and support conservation efforts using non-invasive photo ID technologies.
Join the BeachPatrol
Join like-minded volunteers across Victoria to help remove plastic litter from beaches. BeachPatrol groups, across numerous post codes meet monthly for one hour to clean up a local beach and connect with their communities on the issue of plastic litter. By logging collection data in the LitterStopper app, you’ll help protect marine life and drive positive change for our environment.
Become a Bellarine Nature Cadet
Discover the wonders of the coast through hands-on adventures for curious minds aged 12 and under. Explore, restore and connect with nature on the northern Bellarine Peninsula—and grow a lifelong connection to the environment along the way.
Local hero
Port Phillip EcoCentre
Neil Blake OAM, Port Phillip Baykeeper
Hot summers growing up in Murray River redgum forests gave me the idea that waterways are the arteries of the Earth and inspired me to step into the role of Baykeeper. Before becoming a Baykeeper, I spent 20 years volunteering with the St Kilda Penguin Study Group, which gave me some very unique knowledge of nature in the city to share with local community and visitors. I’m proud of how the EcoCentre has designed and delivered citizen- science projects for everyday people to get to know the Bay, and I hope people remain actively enjoying and caring for our local waterways into the future.
