2024 Events

Biodiversity Blitz Weekend

LOCATION: Wonyip
WHEN: February 2024
PARTNERS: Wonyip landcare group

Wonyip Landcare are incredibly lucky to live in a part of Gippsland where wildlife is flourishing. Wonyip already know that they have platypus, Strzelecki Koalas, Bogong moths, Eels, Powerful Owls, Burrowing crayfish and a bunch of other threatened species in there district, but they have never done a survey!

In order to quantify just how biodiverse the region is, volunteers will be partnered up with resident experts to venture out and run biodiversity surveys to do the following:
- General observations uploaded to iNaturalist
- Collect water samples from the headwaters of Dingo Creek, Golden Creek and Little Albert River for eDNA sampling to detect platypus and other species
- Assist with night spotting with thermal cameras (likely thermal imaging drones) for koalas and other arboreal species
- Take audio for frog ID
- Take audio for bird ID
- Undertake evening insect ID using lights and sheets

Intrepid combined the data weekend with fun activities including a movie, dinner and camp out at Binginwarri Hall.