Join us as a Citizen Scientist
Be part of a bold scientific project designed to repair a 138 ha micro-catchment of Box Ironbark forest.
Citizen Science expands the range of monitoring activities we can do within the Spring Plains Watershed Repair project. Your involvement helps us to understand what impact our work is having on the ecosystem and enables us to refine this process.
The suite of monitoring activities below help us to understand the state of the ecosystem in its current form and ongoing monitoring will help us understand what impact our actions have over the years and decades to come.
The second purpose for this program is to increase community involvement with Citizen Science. People of all ages have an opportunity to participate in the program. We want to put Heathcote and all of Central Victoria on the map for conservation, and the community's involvement is key to achieving this.
Nest box monitoring
Date: Wednesday 26th Feb 2025
Time: 8am - 4pm
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote
Reptile surveys
Date: Wednesday 12th March 2025
Time: 7:30am
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote
Spotlighting for nocturnal animals
Date: Regularly updated - follow link for current dates
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote
Nocturnal Invertebrate Surveys
Date: Thursday 27th March 2025
Time: 8pm
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote
Pollinator surveys
Date: Flexible - follow link to get involved
Time: 9am
Location: Biolinks Alliance office, Tooborac
Identify animals in our camera traps
Join the citizen scientists using the Australian Museum’s DIGIVOL platform to identify and transcribe records from our camera trapping surveys.
Record field sightings or identify others records
We have more than 700 records for the site which need to be identified or validated.
Kangaroo population survey
Dates: Easter period 2025
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote
Swift Parrot Search, Birdlife
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote