Grassland Forum Wrap up
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall , Melbourne, Victoria Michael Longmore (MCMC) and Tein McDonald (AABR) reflect on the day and where to next.
Forum Introductions and Gold Sponsors
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall , Melbourne, Victoria Adrian Marshall tells a joke and introduces the Forum co-hosts, AABR Vic, Merri Creek Management Committee and Grassy Plains Network along with presentations from the Gold sponsors, Native Seeds and EcoSkills.
Welcome to Country – Mandy Nicholson
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall , Melbourne, Victoria Welcome to Country - Mandy Nicholson
Habitat Warriors- Creating a living classroom for students
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall , Melbourne, Victoria Kai Lane Kai is a proud Yorta-Yorta Barapa-Barapa man, with connections to Dja Dja Wurrung and Wurundjeri, who is passionate about his culture and loves to share his knowledge. Growing up near the Murray River he now [...]
Grasslands ecocide and the avenues for grassroots community militancy
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall , Melbourne, Victoria Presenters: Indi Jennings, Billie Eyers, Matthew Kneller Basalt Buddies is a loose collective of people advocating for grassland conversation in the inner-west and inner-north of Naarm. growing locally-native plants and trying to get young and marginalized people involved [...]
What will be required for Natural Temperate Grasslands in Vic to avoid an extinction vortex?
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall , Melbourne, Victoria Michael Goddard Michael is a Senior Associate Botanist and Technical Lead at Biosis. He conducts flora and fauna surveys, ecological monitoring and impact assessments in a range of ecosystems, specialising in the Victorian Alps and Victorian Volcanic Plain bioregions. [...]
Native grassland restoration in south-west Victoria
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne, Victoria John Delpratt John is an Honorary Fellow with the University of Melbourne. He lectured in plant production, seed technology and weed management at the University’s Burnley Campus for more than three decades. In retirement, John advises on native [...]
Lessons I have learnt from calcereous swale ‘grasslands’
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne, Victoria Gidja Walker AOM Gidja Lee Walker is an ecological consultant and natural systems teacher based on Victoria’s Southern Mornington Peninsula. Her specialties include restoration ecology, threatened species management, endangered ecosystems including Moonah Woodland and wetlands, coastal and saltmarsh [...]
Victorian Native Vegetation Offsets: A tale from direct experience
Grassland Resurrection - Connecting Knowledge, Research & Management Forum 8 May, 2026. Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne, Victoria Taylor Gundry While Taylor was undertaking his PhD on plastic pollution, he attended the Conservation and Habitat Management course then ran by Greening Australia, now by the Darebin Creek Management Committee, which he highly recommends. While doing his [...]