Dates with us could look like…
water quality testing and DNA sampling of Merri Creek, advocacy, and helping with research and implementation of the planning process. There’s plenty to go around!
If we were an animal…
we would be the platypus.
Merri Paddle
Location: Darebin and Merri-Bek Commitment level: Ongoing In person or online? It depends!
The Merri Paddle is an alliance of a number of community groups, including Friends of Merri Creek, ACF NXNW, Fawkner and Reservoir Association, committed to the restoration of the Merri Creek to a quality that would encourage the return of the platypus. Our work involves monitoring water quality and habitat, coalition-building with other urban waterway groups and advocacy for the needs of the animal.
Merri Creek is too dirty! Industrial contamination has destroyed the habitat for the species in the creek, and the ecosystem can’t sustain it. What’s needed is Merri Paddle: an intergenerational project to progress the quality of the creek.
Our value system is…
based on a passionate desire to see the return of an iconic species to our local waterway.
We’ll like you…
if you’re passionate and collaborative. If you have a scientific interest you might like us back!
We want someone who is…
passionate about an iconic Australian species.
We meet…
monthly on the first Tuesday of the month; other dates are as scheduled in our annual plan.
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