Strathallan Rochester Family Landcare

02/04/2026

Easter hols' set to start!
Students from Echuca Special School finished their semester visits to Strathallan Glider Sanctuary with a Watch Watch demonstration by the Campaspe River. It has been a pleasure watching them learn about providing leaves and branches and preparing glider food, cage management and nest box building and painting.
Some of our happy group are pictured here cheering as Easter and school holidays approach.

22/03/2026

22/03/2026

22/03/2026

A gentle reminder this International Day of Forests that what we protect now is what will sustain generations to come 💚

Plant trees, support restoration and care for the forests that support us 🌱🌳

Get involved in National Tree Day this 26 July https://nationaltreeday.org.au/.

22/03/2026

Students show artistic talents!
On Thursday students from Echuca Special School continued with their nest box painting project. Then helped survey boxes in side paddock.

12/03/2026

Schoolies back!
This week, students from Echuca Special School had a liesurely walk to the Campaspe River where we are going to do a Water Watch in a few weeks. Then it was back to the Strathallan Glider Sanctuary where students began to.use their artistic skills on some nesting boxes.
The boxes when finished will be installed along the Campaspe River to provide habitat for the three local gliders, Squirrel, Sugar and Feathertails.

08/03/2026

Students Sanctuary Visit
This week, Echuca Special School students checked out the squirrel gliders at the Strathallan Glider Sanctuary and talked about the 30 butterfly species in Victoria, before a walk along the river in Rochester counting the glider nest boxes.

08/03/2026

💚 Happy International Women's Day 💚

This month we've been celebrating the incredible women who make CVA's conservation work possible, and today, on International Women's Day, we want to say a simple but heartfelt thank you.

To our Project Officers out in the field, our coordinators, our volunteers, and every woman who has ever shown up for nature: you are the backbone of what we do.

Your passion, your dedication, and your quiet determination to make a difference inspire everyone around you, every single day. Thank you!

01/03/2026

Meet the clean-up crew
A small but determined group of volunteers showed up on this morning at Strathallan Campase River Highway rest park for Clean -Up Australia day. They picked up a trailer load of rubbish including 6 heavy truck tyres and a large fish tank. Carefully drove it to the Rochester Tip and were back home having a coffee by 11am.
Not a bad effort. And they were doing it for Nature and the Planet!

28/02/2026

Clean-up Australia Day
Tomorrow Sunday 1st March.
Join us at the Strathallan rest stop ( by the river) just up.from Singer Road. 9am. We'll have all the gear. Should only take us an hour.
Lets do it for Nature and the planet!

28/02/2026

There's Gladdie!
Right in the thick of things in the pavilion at the Annual Great Northern Show. Cattle, horses, goats, poultry, sheep dog trials, and a host of gazebos of information and tucker outside. A terrific show once again, congratulations to organising committee, a job very well done.