Great Southern BioBlitz 2023

Upper Billabong

Great Southern BioBlitz 2023

Love Your Creek! Refreshing Rivers and Holbrook Landcare Network are teaming up to participate in the Great Southern BioBlitz 2023 [#GSB2023], with a focus on our creeks and waterways. Kylie Durant and Peter Rowland are running a series of tag-a-long and organised events over the BioBlitz period (24-27 November), taking pictures of everything they see and uploading the images to the Refreshing Rivers - Upper Billabong & Great Southern BioBlitz 2023 - Greater Hume iNaturalist projects. Head over to the Holbrook Landcare Network website to see what's on in the Upper Billabong area and how you can get involved...

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Upper Billabong

August 5, 2025

Ian Geddes Reserve Working Bee

Join us for a Working Bee at Ian Geddes Reserve - Sunday 10th August 10 am - 12 pm

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Riverina Highlands

July 25, 2025

Efforts to Save One of Our Regions Rarest Plants

Refreshing Rivers has recently completed works focussing on the critically endangered Tumut Grevillea (Grevillea wilkinsonii). This Grevillea is one of the regions rarest plants with just over 1,000 individuals surviving along a 6km section of the Goobarragandra River in eastern Riverina.

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Upper Billabong

July 13, 2025

Working Bee at Ian Geddes Bush Reserve

Be part of the Refreshing Rivers Program in the Upper Billabong, and join Holbrook Landcare Network for a family-friendly morning in nature as we care for the beautiful Ian Geddes Reserve along Ten Mile Creek.

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The Refreshing Rivers Program is a collaboration between government, industry, research, and community organisations, led by Local Land Services. This Program has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust.

The Refreshing Rivers Program works on Country that always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters, and we pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.