Conservation Volunteer Bookings

This is a planting project designed to enhance the amenity of the East Arm Wharf entrance while providing significant environmental benefits and community engagement opportunities.

A mix of local native plant species with a structured and attractive appearance have been carefully selected for this project.  The native plantings will complement a recently installed archway.  The local native species will significantly increase the biodiversity value and habitat opportunities for native wildlife. It will provide a visual buffer from the Port operations and a wind break to assist with dust suppression.

For further information please contact our Darwin Office on 0475 979 477 or email awilliams@cva.org.au

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Knuckey Lagoon Reserve is an important habitat and resting site for hundreds of bird species and local wildlife, just 15 minutes out of Darwin City. The birdlife consists mainly of waterbirds and wader species attracted to the wetland during the extended dry season, and has been hailed by several national publications as one of the top 100 bird watching sites in Australia with sixty-seven species of birds having been recorded in the Reserve.  

Conservation Volunteers recognise the importance of this wetland as a rich food source, and an important land pocket to preserve. The wetland backs on to native woodlands, with rare and beautiful plants including Banksias, Grevillea, Pandanus, Stringybarks, Woolybutts and Cycads.

We will be undertaking conservation activities including bird monitoring and surveys, invasive species management to help fire risk management in the area, and basic fencing to ensure its long term preservation.   

For further information please contact our Darwin Office on 0475 979 477 or email awilliams@cva.org.au

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This monitoring project is based at Ludmilla Bay, a nationally important site for migratory shorebirds that visit Australian shores. The project will monitor shorebirds and the macro invertebrates living in intertidal sands that shorebirds rely upon for feeding. 

This project will include field based and laboratory based work and provide important information about the food source available for a great variety of shorebirds that use the site including the Nationally critically endangered Great Knot and Far Eastern Curlew. 

For further information please contact our Darwin Office on 0475 979 477 or email awilliams@conservationvolunteers.com.au

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This project aims to collect cane toads in local areas of Darwin. These will be turned into "toad sausages" to teach quolls to avoid cane toads in the wild. Cane toads were introduced to QLD in 1935 and they have rapidly spread to the NT leading to devastating effects on our native wildlife. 

For further information please contact our Darwin Office on 0475 979 477 or email awilliams@cva.org.au

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Conservation Volunteers will be helping to restore important habitat to protect the critically endangered eastern curlew, a large wading shorebird reaching up to 66cm tall. The eastern curlew requires two types of habitats to survive, one within the tidal zone, mudflats, and mangrove swamps and one above it amongst sand dunes and salt pans when their feeding ground becomes inundated. It has an elongated curved bill for finding food in mudflats, and long legs that enable them to wade throughout mudflats.

We will be undertaking different restoration activities and bird surveys to improve their habitat at Lee Point Reserve. Depending on the time of year, you might see other migratory bird species, waders and nesting turtles on the beach.

For further information please contact our Darwin Office on 0475 979 477 or email awilliams@cva.org.au

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