A NEW environmental community group is being formed for residents in the Beveridge area.
The group had its inaugural meeting in May and followed it up recently with a talk by Ron Litjens titled ‘Faunascaping your Garden’.
Mr Litjens is an enthusiastic naturalist, who has spent many years observing the interactions between wildlife and plants. He is also the author of the popular local nature blog, ‘Focus on Fauna’.
His presentation gave attendees lots of ideas about how to increase the number and diversity of wildlife that comes to a garden.
All Beveridge residents are invited to be part of this new Beveridge environmental group that has a focus on community environmental education and enhancing the environmental values of public land areas in Beveridge through environmental activities such as community tree planting days, nature/bird watching walks, frog nights, spotlighting for native wildlife, litter clean-ups, and environmental programs such as Gardens for Wildlife.
Those interested in Beveridge’s natural environment, and would like to get involved in this new environmental volunteer group can contact Chris Cobern, Upper Merri Landcare Facilitator on: 0413 855 490 or chriscobern@mcmc.org.au