Congratulations to Alison and the Ashburton Creek Biodiversity Crew (ACBC) upon receiving a “Highly Commended” award in the category of Outstanding Friends Group at the recent Victorian Environmental Friends Network Awards. The group has only been in existence for just less… Read More »Congratulations ACBC !
Our third Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday 13th November, 2024 was a very well attended and successful event – dealing with changes to the KKA Rules to meet Tax Office requirements to hold DGR status, appointments to office bearer… Read More »2024 AGM
Congratulations to Sam Russell the inspirational leader of the Urban Guerrillas on being awarded a Caroline Chisholm Volunteering Award for 2024, by Carina Garland MP, for his commitment to volunteering in the community. Thoroughly deserved! Sam has brought youth volunteering to… Read More »Congratulations Sam !
VEFN Awards Members and friends were delighted to be acknowledged for their environmental work with an award for Connecting Habitats from the Victorian Environmental Friends Network (VEFN). The VEFN is the organisation which advocates for Victorian friends and environmental Groups.… Read More »Awards and Grants
In a major blow for the health of Melbourne’s major waterways, the Yarra Riverkeeper, Charlotte Sterrett, has resigned. This follows the Yarra Riverkeeper Association‘s (YRKA’s) CEO, Karin Traeger, having been made redundant in March, 2023. The underlying problem appears to be a… Read More »Yarra Riverkeeper resigns
Our new web-site was switched over into “live” mode on the morning of Friday, 30th June, 2023. The KooyongKoot Alliance thanks its development partner, GreenAnt Networks for its excellent work getting us up and running on time and on budget.… Read More »Web-site Live
We are entering the final stages of KKA web-site development and data content gathering for our first release of the web-site – aiming for a full release on 30/6/2023. We urge you to review the content of our pages that… Read More »Web-site Release
Today (4/4/2023) was the official launch of the Gardiners Creek (KooyongKoot) Regional Collaboration. The KKA was well represented and the KooyongKoot Catchment Keeper, our Graham Ross, made an address on behalf of the volunteers who have contributed to the collaboration.… Read More »Collaboration Launch