Sale & District Field Naturalists Club

07/01/2026

Stuart & Victoria Inchley from Gippsland Forest Guardians were our November speakers & spoke to us about this very issue.

Questions are being raised about sustainable timber certification in Australia.

09/11/2025

Congratulations to our President, Mitch Smith for winning the "Best in Show" at the Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists Club The Nature of Gippsland Photographic Exhibition :-) The exhibition is Open 10-4 daily until the 13th November in Morwell if you want to see some fantastic photography :-)

31/10/2025

📸 💥Only one week to go until the LVFNC Nature of Gippsland Photography Exhibition opens on Friday 7th November. The exhibition will showcase the diverse range of flora, fauna and fungi found in Gippsland. All photos on display have been taken by LVFNC members.

29/10/2025

Great News :-) Well done Maffra & Districts Landcare Network

Maffra and Districts Landcare Network has received funding to bring back the Avon Peppermint!

We are excited to be working with our local Landcare groups, naturalists, botanists, nurseries and landholders to establish new populations of the Critically Endangered Avon Peppermint tree.

Join us for seed collection, planting and monitoring activities to safeguard this species in our backyard.

This project is supported by Eucalypt Australia's Community Grants. Thank you for supporting our work.



We'd love to invite our partners Avon Landcare Clydebank and District Landcare Group Stratford Community Notice Board Sale & District Field Naturalists Club East Gippsland Landcare Network Gippsland Times Gippsland Climate Change Network Gippsland Plains Rail Trail Gippsland Youth - Wellington Woolenook Native Plant Nursery

06/10/2025

Come along to our exciting wetlands birdwatching at the Sale Common Nature Conservation Reserve which consists of freshwater marsh, red gum woodland and grasslands. The wetland is listed as a RAMSAR site and supports a variety of birds, including kookaburra, whistling kite, black swan, superb fairy

07/09/2025

30/08/2025

Bring your binoculars or camera to do a bit of bird-watching in this Damp Forest, Strzelecki Warm Temperate Rainforest and Shrubby Foothill Forest environment.

20/08/2025

Our speaker this month will be Brett Mifsud. Brett has been saving giant trees for many years and travels around Victoria and Tasmania documenting, recording, photographing and climbing these tall trees. He has published both technical papers and popular articles, and is oft quoted as the Australian