Upper Billabong

Upper Billabong Refreshing Rivers – Great Southern BioBlitz 2025

Upper Billabong Refreshing Rivers – Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 

 

24–27 October 2025

 

Holbrook Region

Holbrook Landcare and the Refreshing Rivers Program invite YOU to take part in the Great Southern BioBlitz – a fun, hands-on weekend of nature discovery with a focus on our beautiful creeks and waterways in the Upper Billabong region!

 

What is a BioBlitz?

It’s a snapshot intime where the community and scientists work together to record as many species as possible – from plants and birds to fungi and frogs!

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How to get involved:

Download the iNaturalist app (free!)

Create a login

 

Join our iNaturalist Projects:

  •  Great Southern BioBlitz     2025 – Greater Hume
  •  Refreshing Rivers –     Umbrella Project
  •  Refreshing Rivers –     Upper Billabong

 

We’ll be hosting events across the weekend in Holbrook and Woomargama – stay tuned for more details soon!

Let’s get outside, explore our creeks, and celebrate local biodiversity – one photo at a time! 

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