As part of a 2018 Coastcare program, Marion Manifold, artist, educator, and the Group’s secretary, was invited as a volunteer to take a Southern Brown Bandicoot mask making workshop in the Port Campbell Art hall. 24 children attended and approx 12 mothers. Marion said it was a busy and productive 2 hours and a lot…
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Link to DSE Bandicoot Fact Sheet
Click here to read the Department of Sustainability and Environment Southern Brown Bandicoot Fact Sheet – shows distribution of Southern Brown Bandicoot in Victoria
Bandicoots need homes too!
The Southern Brown Bandicoot is under threat from extinction nationally. This includes the Bandicoot Nursery on the Port Campbell Headland. Habitat is under threat of extinction from urban sprawl. The Victorian National Parks Association (VNPA) is calling the State Government to establish Green Corridors and develop a Southern Brown Bandicoot Regional Recovery Group and Regional…
Bandicoot poem by Gail Watson, local writer… after a trip to see the gardens & bandicoots at Cranbourne
BANDICOOT 1 Cranbourne All day long we have strolled around these gardens waiting for a glimpse of you enjoying plants which grow in lines or on strictly measured trellises a post modern garden of medieval formality where the design references are familiar but the plants and features are truly antipodean. We have searched all over…