Wombat Forestcare received funding through The Wilderness Society’s WildCountry Small Grants Program to undertake an assessment of the conservation values of the Wombat Forest and Mount Macedon Landscape Zone. Read Part One of this report - Download PDF
This report focuses on the relationships between small ground mammals and vegetation characteristics. It forms part of a larger study that investigated the relationships between mammals and vegetation characteristics at 30 sites across the forest. Part of the aim of...
Wombat Forestcare in conjunction with the Wilderness Society, Ballarat Environment Network and Bendigo District Environment Council have released a report ‘that investigates the natural heritage values of the Mount Cole and Pyrenees Range in Victoria’s...
In 2004 members of the Wombat Forest community obtained funding from the Department of Sustainability & the Environment (DSE) to conduct research into aspects of forest biodiversity. The Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research (ARI) was asked to carry...
The natural world, or in old fashioned terms, “Mother Nature” is an exquisite system. Evolved over billions of years, every microbe, insect, animal and plant performs a function that is linked to keep the system running. We now call this biological diversity or...
Wombat Forestcare has a new project based around rare and threatened plant species. The project involves locating sites in the Wombat State Forest where selected rare plants have been previously recorded, then assessing those sites in relation to current population...
The United Nations has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity (IYOB). This is a call to action to instigate international measures to curb biodiversity loss worldwide. Governmental reactions have been too few and too late hence new approaches, new ways...
There has been an average of a 0.6 C° rise in temperature globally in the past one hundred years, and there is an absolutely vast body of evidence out there recording the changes in habitats of f lora and fauna as a result of Climate Change. Of course, this...
Roadside vegetation has received a lot of heated debate recently with the severity of our bushfires reaching the official "catastrophic rating". Understanding how significant a roadside verge is, and when it may be appropriate to clean it up is complex. Firstly let's...
We know that there is an environmental crisis; that we are in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of biodiversity in the world and that this is the first mass extinction to be caused by human beings. Biodiversity encompasses species, communities, ecosystems and their...
Since European settlement, over 60% of Victoria’s native vegetation has been cleared. This widespread loss of habitat has had devastating impacts on our native plants and animals, and natural ecosystems. Widespread clearing has also resulted in remaining native...