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The lonely Button Wrinklewort This is the story of a lonely Button Wrinklewort - one of the most endangered plants on the Victorian Volcanic Plains grasslands.

In November 2019 a solitary plant was found in a new location. The recovery project team now have a task to give it company.

Just how tiny are the seedlings Ben and Aggie have been identifying on the grasslands these last couple of weeks? This t...
08/10/2026

Just how tiny are the seedlings Ben and Aggie have been identifying on the grasslands these last couple of weeks?
This tiny.
These plants have emerged from seed scattered in trial areas across the Victorian Volcanic Plains, with some areas baited for slugs and some not, to see if direct seeding could be an opportunity to establish new areas of grasslands and to see how much the predation of slugs impacts that establishment.

While planting grassland seedlings seems easy, sourcing large numbers of those seedlings can be tricky, and breaking the soil crust can allow weeds to establish in these special grassland areas, so careful direct seeding on top of the crust might provide an opportunity to establish grassland plants at a large scale with lower investment requirements.

08/10/2026

How does Ben not go cross-eyed?
We don't know ... and honestly, neither does he!
It's seedling counting time in the trial seeding areas on the grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plains and Ben and Aggie have been out for days and days listing off species as they see them emerging and noting them down on tally pages.
It's a process!
And not just becuase its lots of latin ... its also been hot, cold, wet, windy and everything in between!

When you whether the weather for the sake of the grasslands...It's seedling counting time for our VVP team of Aggie and ...
02/10/2026

When you whether the weather for the sake of the grasslands...
It's seedling counting time for our VVP team of Aggie and Ben and the weather today certainly tested their patience!
From inverted umbrellas from the wind, to wet count sheets and damp paddocks from more than 30mm of rain, the team persevered counting seedlings in monitoring plots.
Stay tuned to see the seedling count ... once Aggie and Ben dry themselves and the count sheets out!

02/09/2026

Join us this celebrating the trees of the catchment - where is your favourite tree?

It's September! And this year, we are rebranding it Treetember and holding a month-long celebration of the trees we love...
01/09/2026

It's September! And this year, we are rebranding it Treetember and holding a month-long celebration of the trees we love.
There are just some trees that are special to us all for a variety of reasons.
We'd love you to share your favourite tree with others this Treetember.

Join us at the National Heritage Trust-listed Mooramong Homestead for a networking lunch in the garden, and walking tour...
20/08/2026

Join us at the National Heritage Trust-listed Mooramong Homestead for a networking lunch in the garden, and walking tours of the historic precinct and nature reserve for Interational Day of Rural Women.

This event in October, co-hosted by Glenelg Hopkins CMA and Corangamite Catchment Management Authority, will help celebrate the United Nations' 2026 theme of International Year of the Woman Farmer with guest speakers, a wander of the grounds and morning and afternoon tea.

Tickets on sale now.



Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
DEECA Barwon South West

The CMA is home to some pretty special species or plants and animals and for Sheepvention each year, we put a badge coll...
30/07/2026

The CMA is home to some pretty special species or plants and animals and for Sheepvention each year, we put a badge collection together to celebrate the important and/or quirky ones.

Grab your Hoary Sunray, Featherhead, Southern Bent-wing Bat, Glenelg Spiny Cray, or Short-finned Eel badge from our CMA site this year.

While you're there, help name the CMA sheep and learn about the Green Sheep Project, put a leaf on our 40 years of Landcare tree and meet the Landcare Facilitators, size up against our giant Glenelg Freshwater Mussel or just have a chat to the CMA team about what projects we've got going on.

Sheepvention Rural Expo

Leaf your mark on our Landcare tree at Sheepvention!This year, we are helping celebrate 40 years of Landcare in Victoria...
27/07/2026

Leaf your mark on our Landcare tree at Sheepvention!

This year, we are helping celebrate 40 years of Landcare in Victoria.
As part of our CMA site at Sheepvention, we have a bare tree we want to leaf-up with the number of trees people have planted.
There's even leves if you just want to nominate how many you want to plant!
Our local Landcare facilitators will be on-site across the weekend so drop in and have a chat about your plans for the paddock, or how you can get invovled in your local area's Landcare group.

Swing by and have a chat - and while you're there, learn about what else the CMA is up to, grab an info book about local species, snag a giveaway, and meet the CMA team!

Sheepvention Rural Expo
Landcare Victoria
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
DEECA Barwon South West
SEA Landcare
Upper Hopkins Land Management Group - UHLMG
Upper Glenelg Landcare
Upper Mount Emu Landcare Network
Warrnambool Coastcare Landcare Network
Hamilton Districts Landcare

15/07/2026

The tiles on our monitoring tiles on the grasslands of the Victorian Volcanic Plains are pretty important, even if they are simple.
What they are not, sometimes, is easy to spot in the grass!
Which is why Aggie and Ben were out and about replacing broken ones last week ... taking extra special care not to disturb ... rocks, as it turns out.


Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water DEECA Barwon South West

09/07/2026

There's been a lot of crawling on grasslands over the last 3 years, a lot of counting ... and a lot of Latin!

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Threatened Species Commissioner

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