Conservation 5 Day Breaks

Make the most of your holidays and volunteer with us

South West Region

What’s on for Autumn 2010!

To book on these projects shown below, contact our South West Office on

(03) 5551 3331, email jlee@conservationvolunteers.com.au

For more information contact us or book online at www.conservationvolunteers.com.au

Project Cost: 5 day Conservation Breaks cost $208 ($120 for students) which includes all meals, accommodation and project related transport. Some concessions are available. $50 deposit required upon booking and recommended at least 2 weeks prior to the project. Cancellation fees may apply.

Note that all projects are free of charge unless you need food and accommodation

The Points Arboretum Grassland Restoration Project 1 of 2

Dates: 26^th April – 30th April

Project type: Better Earth

Description: Join this volunteer project in the Great South West. The Points Arboretum holds Australia's registered Eucalyptus collection. You can find 1,200 different species of plant at the park including 500 different Eucalypt species. Our job for the week will help maintain the park for future generations. The main task will be to protect native grassland species by removing scrub.

On this project we will also have a tour of the Aboretum, visit the Eucalyptus Discovery Centre and stop at Wannon Falls.

Grange Burn working Bee

Dates: 03^rd May – 07^th May

Project type: Better Earth

Description: Come and join our project in the great south west. The Grange Burn River runs though the town of Hamilton on the far side of the Grampians on its way to the larger Wannon river system. We will be working on a section from Lake Hamilton for about 2 km removing woody weeds.

This will be a great project for anyone interested in waterway restoration, ID of woody weeds or anyone looking to have good fun and get fit whilst helping our natual environment.

Other activities in the South West

We run conservation activities every week in the South west region. Activities include weed work, tree planting, radio tracking, fencing, bird box creation, tree banding, wetland work, hide creation and beach clean ups. All of our work takes us to some of the most beautiful locations in our great south west. An ideal place to make some new friends!