How to turn your home into a wildlife refuge
Cities have an important role to play in providing habitat for our native animals, plants and insects. Last week, Bethany Kiss, RMIT University, published an article in The Conversation with 8 helpful tips on how people can turn their homes into refuges for wildlife. The article cites the work of the authors explored in their […]
NGV Exhibition: When wildlife moves in
Native animals can make for excellent neighbours – blue-banded bees pollinate our vegetable gardens; microbats eat up to 1200 mosquitoes per night; powerful owls keep rodents at bay. But could we go one step further and design our homes so that we could have native animals as housemates? Bethany Kiss’ design piece ‘When wildlife moves […]
Wildlife gardening for conservation in cities
by Laura Mumaw In this article we explore how the Knox Gardens for Wildlife program, a collaboration between a municipality (Knox City Council) and community group (Knox Environment Society) in greater Melbourne involves residents in gardening to help conserve indigenous biodiversity. We used semi-structured interviews and Council survey data to identify key program features that […]