This page provides links to a number of conservation and nature-based sites across Australia. Particular emphasis is given to sites relating to northern Victoria and southern (Riverina) NSW. Most of the sites listed are non-commercial in nature. Some of the sites may offer commercial guiding, tour or accommodation services. That a commercial or semi-commercial site is listed does not mean that I endorse business, although I am unaware of links to any disreputable business. Nor do I necessarily endorse the views or actions expressed on any of the sites. There are a number of pages on this site, which concentrates on northern Victoria and southern (Riverina) NSW, covering indigenous animals, Barmah-Millewa Forest, birding, bushwalking, local conservation news, conservation issues, Gunbower-Perricooota Forest; Greater Bendigo National Park, indigenous plants, local bird gallery, local bushland reserves, local landscapes (photo gallery), Terrick Terrick National Park, weeds and short true bush stories. Site map   Search engines "Anzwers" "Matilda" "Web Wombat" "Metacrawler" "DogPile" "Excite" "All the Web" "WebCrawler" "Lycos" "Magellan" "Hot Bot" "Yahoo" .

Links to Australian conservation sites including Australian animal, plant and bushwalking sites Introduction Although this page provides links to sites across Australia, particular emphasis is placed on sites relating to northern Victoria and southern (Riverina) NSW. There are also links relating to particular issues on other pages on this site. Australian animals (other than birds) Australian Entomological Society Australian Koala Foundation Australian Museum Australian National Insect Collection Australian Native Fish Society Australian Platypus Conservancy Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Dr Don's Termite Site Entomological Society of Victoria Dragonflies Frogs Australia Frogs of Australia (Amphibian Research Centre) Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary NSW Fisheries NSW Wildlife Atlas Queensland Frog Society Save the Locust Wildlife Information and Rescue Service (WIRES) Wildlife Preservation Society   Australian birds 1. Photo galleries ABC Science Lab: Backyard Birds Abberton Bird Galleries (Bill Jolly) Australian Museum's photos of Australian birds Aviceda Bird Photo Galleries (Tom Tarrant's site) ~ includes bird video clips Birdquest Australian Photo Galleries (Kevin Vang's site) Birdway: Ian Montgomery's photos of Australian birds ~ (commercial site) Cheryl Ridge's Australian Wildlife Site Gondwana Guides' bird photo gallery (photographs, mainly of SE Qld birds, by Dan Blunt) Graeme Chapman's bird photographs (commercial site) Photo Gallery of Australian Birds (Paul Hackett's site) Photo Gallery of Cowra District birds Photo Galley of Echuca District birds (photographs by David Ong) Peter Fuller's birding site   2 Birding sites of individual birders (other than photo galleries) Birding in South-west Victoria (Steve Clark's site) Birds and Birding in Queensland (Peter Woodall's site) Birds and Things (Colin Reid's blog) Birds of Darwin (Niven McCrie's site) Birdwatching South Australia (Peter Waanders site) Bob's Backyard (digiscoping) Frank O'Connor's site (WA birds) Lloyd Nielsen's Birding Australia Michael Morcombe's Site  Ricki Coughlan's birding blogspot Tassiebirds Blogspot (Alan Fletcher's site) Trevor Hampel's blog World Birding Info: a web site by John Penhallurick   3. Birding paraphernalia Binoculars for Birding Binocular and Telescope Shop Birding Shop, The Blue Wren Gift Shop (BOCA shop) Bob's Backyard (digiscoping) Optics for Birding     4. Regional Birding Arnhemland Ballarat and District: Bayside Melbourne (BAYBOCA) Barraba District (central-eastern NSW) Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley (by Carol Probets)  Broome Cairns Canberra Cooloola (Sunshine Coast, Qld) Cowra (central-eastern NSW) Crows Nest (SE Qld) Daintree (north-east Qld) Darwin by Niven McCrie if link doesn't work, try http://ntbirds.net/ East Gippsland BOCA Fivebough and Tuckerbil Wetlands (Leeton NSW) Fleurieu Peninsula (South Australia) Gluepot Reserve (Sth Aust) Hunter BOC Mareeba Wetlands Melbourne Branch of BOCA (Melbird) Newhaven Reserve Northern Victoria and southern NSW (Echuca & District BOCA) Penrith and Nepean/Hawkesbury area Queensland (by Peter Woodall) South Australia (by Peter Waanders) South-west Victoria (by Steve Clark) Southern Queensland (by Tom Tarrant) Sunraysia/Mildura (SunBOC) Sydney (Cumberland Bird Observers) Tasmania (by Alan Fletcher) Triavian Corridor (southern NSW) Toowoomba Wakool Shire (southern NSW) Western Australia (by Frank O'Connor)   5 Sites on specific birds or bird types Australasian Wader Studies Group Australian Pelagic Site Birds Australia Parrot Association Malleefowl Recovery Group Shorebirds   6. State or Australia-wide birding sites of groups/clubs Australian Bird Study Association Asia Pacific Shorebirds Network Babblers Nest (Victorian Branch of Birds Australia) Bird Observers Club of Australia Birding-Aus Birding NSW (now affiliated with BOCA) Birding WA Birdline Victoria Birds Australia (R.A.O.U.) Birds in Backyards Birds Queensland Birds South Australia Birds Australia Western Australia Birdwatching Australia : Directory of Australian Birdwatching Canberra Ornithologists Group Inc. Cumberland Bird Observers (Sydney area) Gould League of Birdlovers  NSW Field Ornithologists Club South Australian Ornithological Association (Birds SA) Tassiebirds Blogspot Victorian Group of Birds Australia   7. Commercial birding sites ~ guides, tours etc "Abberton" Lockyer Valley, Queensland" (accommodation in bushland and bird photo gallery) Alan McBride (guide: Australia, pelagics, overseas) Arnhemland Birds   Australian Ornithological Services P/L (Phil Maher's birding tours) Binna Burra Mountain Lodge (Lamington Plateau, SE Qld) Birding Australia (Lloyd Nielsen's site) Birding Services Brisbane (Tours and B&B) Birdway ~ online photos of Australian birds Blue Mountains and Capertee Valley (Carol Probets, birding guide) Box-ironbark Birding (Manfred Ruff) (accommodation and guided birding; borders Heathcote-Graytown National Park Victoria) Cassowary Bird Tours (north Queensland) Cassowary House, birding and lodge (Kuranda, north Queensland) Cassowary Birding Tours (Cairns) Chris Dahlberg (Daintree River cruises) Coates Wildlife Tours Firetail Birdwatching Tours ~ Simon Star (northern Victoria) French Island EcoTours Follow That Bird (Sydney and eastern NSW) Gondwana Guides (Barry Davies) (specialising in Lamington National Park, Qld) Hill House Farm Stay (Cambria Estate; follow links) (between Barham and Moulamein, southern Riverina; great birding area) Inala, Bruny Island, Tasmania (accommodation and nature tours) Jolly Goodfellow's Birding (tours in Bookmark Biosphere, South Australia) John Young Wildlife Enterprises (videos and DVDs; wildlife guide) Jonny Schoenjahn, bird guide (far north Queensland) Kimberley Birdwatching Tours  (George Swan) Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Lodge, Julatten (caravan park, inland from Cairns, at foot of Mt Lewis) Kirrama Wildlife Tours (Klaus & Brenda Uhlenhut (Cape York/Innisfail, Queensland) Kurringai Cottage (self-catering accommodation) (Warby Range, northern Victoria) Lyrebird Tours (Ricki Couglan's birding site) (eastern NSW) Michael Morcombe's Bird Site (bird and plant book author) Quaalup Homestead, Fitzgerald River National Park (accommodation, camp ground, private bushland) Bush Safari Company (Rex Ellis, outback safaris) Southern Birding Services (Peter Waanders, bird guide) Sydney Pelagics   8. Ornithology courses  Charles Sturt University ornithology courses Broome Bird Observatory Courses   9 Sightings & records Avibase ~ worldwide records Backyard Birdwatch (use menu on site) Birding-Aus Bird Info (commercial database software) Birdline Victoria Birdpedia ~ latest bird sightings Canberra sightings Eremaea ~ bird sighting records OzBirds ~ bird sighting records Recent Queensland sightings Recent W A sightings   10 Other Backyard Birdwatch (follow links) Bird Boxes for sale Birds in Backyards Gould's Birds of Australia (plates and text) Recent Ornithological Literature Re-birding Australia Save the Locust Seabird Rescue State of Australia's Birds 2004 State of Australia's Birds 2005     Australian plants See also under Commercial Organisations Australian National Botanic Gardens Australian Plants Society (formerly SGAP) On-line Herbarium Plants of northern Victoria and southern NSW     Bicycling   Bushwalking Australian Bushwalking Page Bendigo Bushwalkers Bibbulmun Track (south-west WA) Bushwalking Confederation Bushwalking in northern Victoria and southern (Riverina) NSW Bushwalking in North-eastern Victoria Federation of Victorian Bushwalking Clubs (VicWalk) Great Dividing Trail (Bendigo-Daylesford area) Great Walks and Drives of Victoria Great Walks of Queensland Manfred's Bushwalking Pages Queensland Walks South Australian Trails Wimmera Bushwalking Club   Climate change and global warming (Australian sites only) Australian Business Round Table on Climate Change Australian Conservation Foundation's climate pages Climate Action Network Australia Climate Institute Green Power Australia NSW Greenhouse Office Victorian Greenhouse Office   Commercial organisations/wildlife guides (See also Section 7 under Birds) Andrew Isles Natural History Bookshop Australian Geographic (Magazine) Binna Burra Mountain Lodge (accommodation and acivities in Lamington rainforest, south-eastern Queensland) Carnarvon Gorge Wilderness Lodge Coates Wildlife Tours Girraween Environmental Lodge (cabins adjoining Girraween National Park in south-east Queensland's granite country) Goldfields Revegetation (Indigenous Plant Nursery in Bendigo area) Images and Sounds of Nature (Michael Todd's 'Wildlifing' site) Gondwana Guides (Barry Davies) (specialising in Lamington National Park, Qld) Inala, Bruny Island, Tasmania (accommodation and nature tours) Neangar Native Nursery, Eaglehawk Mildura Native Nursery Mountain Valley (Tasmania) Nature Australia (Australian Museum magazine) Nature Sounds of Australia (David Stewart's recordings) O'Reilly's Green Mountains Lodge (accommodation and activities in Lamington rainforest; see also Binna Bunna) Parktrek Bushwalking Tours Rainbow Bushland Retreat (near St Mary's in Tasmania)   Conservation projects and campaigns Clean Up Australia Climate Action Network Australia Climate Movement Australia Echuca Landcare Eco-certified tourism operator, List of Get Up (climatic and political campaigns) Greening Australia Envirotalk Inland Rvers Network Invasive Species Council Landcare Australia Landscope Expeditions (WA outback research tours) Living Murray Initiative Planet Ark Sustainable Population Australia Trees for Life Victorian Landcare Gateway Waterkeepers Weeds Australia Wetland Care Australia Wetland Link Wetland Management Solutions Wetlands   Government conservation sites Also, see below under local government sites in northern Victoria and southern Riverina ACT: Environment ACT Arthur Rylah Institute Australian Institute of Marine Science Australian National Parks Guide Department of Environment and Heritage (Australia) Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Great Walks and Drives of Victoria Land and Water Australia Murray Darling Basin Commission NSW Environmental Protection Authority NSW Fisheries NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service Northern Territory Parks & Wildlife Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service SA Park Web SA: The Department of Environment and Heritage SA: The Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation Tasmanian National Parks Service Trails SA Victoria: Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) Victorian Environment Assessment Council Victoria: Parks Victoria WA Department of Environment and Conservation ('Nature Base') (Formerly Department of Conservation and Land Management) Wetland Management Solutions Wetlands   Non-government conservation organisations Field Naturalist Clubs are listed in 'Other'. Also, see above under birds Australian Bush Heritage Fund Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Ecosystems Foundation Australian Marine Conservation Society Conservation Volunteers Australia Australian Greens Community Biodiversity Network Earthwatch Environment Victoria Friends Groups (of Victorian National Parks and Reserves) Friends of the Earth Goulburn Valley Landcare Network Gould League Grassy Ecosystems Network Greenpeace National Parks Association of NSW National Parks Association of Queensland Nature Conservation Council of NSW Nature Conservation Society Planet Ark Queensland Conservation Council Nature Foundation of South Australia Trust for Nature (Victoria) (until late April 2007) Trust for Nature (Victoria) (from May 2007) Victorian National Parks Association W.A. Forest Alliance Wilderness Society World Wide Fund for Nature   Local government in northern Victoria and southern Riverina Bendigo Tourism City of Greater Bendigo City of Greater Shepparton Conargo Shire Deniliquin Shire Moira Shire Murray CMA Murray Shire North Central CMA Shire of Campaspe Wakool Shire   Similar Australian Regional Sites Ballarat and District: Biodiversity Information Resources and Data (BIRD) Northern Victoria & Southern Riverina Conservation and Environment Site   Other links Alice Springs Field Naturalists Barmah-Millewa Forum (coordinated water management of Barmah-Millewa Forest until recently) Bendigo Field Naturalists Club Beyond the Black Stump: Environment Links Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology CSIRO Land and Water Research CSIRO Publishing (environmental books) Envirotalk Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Golden Rivers Tourism (Cohuna and Barham-Koondrook)   E-mail stocky @ mail dot mcmedia dot com dot.au if you have an Australian conservation/environment site which you would like listed above. Established 1996. Last major upgrade 2004; design modifications and revision of links February 2007; latest link additions/modifications April 2007.  Conservation Links   Northern Victoria & Southern Riverina Conservation and Environment Site   Section 1: Conservation News  Section 5: Photo Gallery   Section 2: Bushwalking  Section 6: Bushland Reserves   Section 3: Birding  Section 7: Animals   Section 4: Local Plants Section 8: Conservation Links Bonus: Short bush stories