The following article reporting KKA’s Clean Waterways Sub-Committee plans to reduce litter pollution in Melbourne’s KooyongKoot catchment comes to us from Mark Landmann. KooyongKoot catchment The KooyongKoot (Gardiners) Creek catchment covers 112 square kilometres across five municipalities in Melbourne’s east. … Read More »Reducing litter pollution
The Ashburton Creek Biodiversity Crew [ACBC] has been working along the Ferndale Trail and biodiversity corridor from Summerhill Park to Ferndale Road, Glen Iris for nearly 4 years, keeping the beds weeded, mulched, and planted with indigenous flora. The planting… Read More »Fungi along Ferndale Trail
Celebrating 15 years of local land care in Ashburton Friends of Ashburton Forest’s (FoAF) group leader, Rita says: Our community volunteer group started in June, 2011. We grew out of the City of Boroondara’s Backyard Biodiversity Project. The aim of… Read More »Happy Birthday Friends of Ashburton Forest!
On 24 April 2026 from 8.30-10.00 am, twenty-seven enthusiastic participants, ranging in age from 5 to 84 years, joined naturalist Callum Clarke from Life Gone Wild for an inspiring guided nature walk through Nettleton Park, auspiced by the City of… Read More »Nature comes alive in Nettleton
One of our Members, Ruth Scharley, has some very welcome news: Our new KKA fauna education boards are an exciting initiative designed to promote the work of Friends Groups while sparking interest in our parklands and encouraging new members to… Read More »KKA Fauna Posters
The State Government has announced that a significant amendment to the Planning Controls for Waterways has been approved by the Minister for Planning and will take effect in late January, 2026. The amendment introduces a series of Significant Landscape Overlays… Read More »New Planning Protections for KooyongKoot
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Dr Katie Allen just prior to Christmas. Katie was a big supporter of the KKA and the Friends groups in her time serving as MHR for the former electorate of Higgins.… Read More »Sad news…
Our President, Rex Dusting, posts the following message to all friends of the KKA: KooyongKoot Alliance’s 2025 As we reach the end of 2025, we can look back on our efforts to improve the health of the KooyongKoot (Gardiners) Creek… Read More »President’s Christmas Message 2025
One of our member groups has sent us an interesting photo taken this month along KooyongKoot which shows a juvenile male Gang-gang Cockatoo – presumably with his mother. The upper part of an adult male’s head is normally completely bright… Read More »Endangered Cockatoos find refuge in the catchment
The KooyongKoot Alliance (KKA) and its members brought together an impressive gathering of community groups, environmental advocates and local residents on Saturday 29th November for the Boroondara KooyongKoot Clean Waterways Expo. Despite a soggy start, the event proved a solid… Read More »Clean Waterways Expo Makes a Splash Despite Wet Weather