The lonely Button Wrinklewort

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.

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

Our Saving 17 on the VVP project has spent the last 3 years delivering on-the-ground outputs that look like literally mi...
06/07/2026

Our Saving 17 on the VVP project has spent the last 3 years delivering on-the-ground outputs that look like literally millions of seeds, more than a hundred new populations of threatened plants, project partnerships between the CMA, landholders, Traditional Owners, and non-government organisations, hundreds of hours of crawling in the grass ... and the assurance that one Button Wrinklewort plant is not lonely anymore.

It's been an extraordinary one to see delivered.

Stay tuned as we showcase some of its amazing outputs now the funding for the project has concluded.

This project has been funded through the Victorian Government's Nature Fund.



Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Threatened Species Commissioner
Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation
Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation
Nature Glenelg Trust
Chatsworth Landcare Group

04/06/2026

We've been back out with Button! Who has had some more seeds sown in the hope of making it even less lonely.

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