This project is scaling up our successful Canid Pest Ejector (CPE) trials to cover a much wider catchment. Funded by the Department of Agriculture and administered by Nillumbik Shire Council it includes the Co-op, Bend of Islands Conservation Associate (BICA) and Christmas Hills Landcare groups. Much has been achieved in the six months since receiving funding: Prerequisite training has been undertaken by all participants, and it is expected that the first CPE program will commence in July or...

Our population of Christmas Guinea Flower, Hibbertia porcata, has recently been recommended by the Victorian Scientific Advisory Committee to be added to the Flora and Fauna Guarantee (FFG) Act Threatened List. This is expected to be approved by the appropriate Minister soon. Round the Bend Conservation Co-operative has a large population of Christmas Guinea Flower, (taxonomically revised from H. pedunculata in 2013) and it is the major population of the two currently known within Victoria,...

This Dark-tipped Greenhood, Pterostylis atrans, was spotted earlier this year and is only the second known record in the Bend of Islands Environmental Living Zone (ELZ). It is less than 100 metres east of the Co-op boundary, so can be considered 'in the Co-op zone'. The plant was 260mm tall and the second plant had flowered by the 1st of April. Previously observations of this orchid were in May 2009 when a single flowering plant was found off the side of Henley Rd, near Gongflers Drive (no...