Since 2008 Conservation Volunteers Australia has been running our annual Flatback sea turtle monitoring program at Eco Beach, near Broome in north west Western Australia as part of our Threatened Species/Wild Futures program. The most recent monitoring program, run in November and December 2018, saw volunteers collect valuable data on the turtles nesting at Eco […]
The Cumberland Plain is full of many rare and threatened species, but the Nodding Geebung, or Persoonia nutans must be one of the most fascinating. Classified as Endangered at both the State and Federal level, this delicate and rare shrub occurs exclusively within a 40 square kilometre region of the Critically Endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland. […]
Local and visiting volunteers have all pitched in to build habitat for the endangered purple copper butterfly in Sunny Corner State Forest on the western side of the Blue Mountains in NSW. One of the rarest butterflies in Australia, the purple copper butterfly feeds on one rare species of plant (Bursaria spinosa subsp. lasiophylla), in a very […]
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) has recently been awarded an Australian Government 20 Million Trees project to revegetate 3 ha of Koala Habitat and Lowland Rainforest adjacent to the Wilson’s River near Lismore, NSW and regenerate an additional 2.2 ha through weed control activities. CVA is partnering with landholders and community volunteers in the Lismore area […]
These past few months, we have had our crews out working with the Save the Tasmanian Devil team, undertaking devil habitat improvements and camera trap monitoring on the Tasman Peninsula. The captive bred devil release site is located in southern Tasmania and is playing a vital role in providing a safe haven for facial tumour free […]
