Conservation Volunteer Bookings

Wetlands play a critical role in flood mitigation, water and carbon storage, and supporting an abundance of unique local plant and animal species. Greater Darwin’s wetlands also have cultural significance to indigenous groups and other local residents of Darwin. They support healthy community wellbeing through providing learning, tourism and recreational opportunities. They also provide an accessible point of access to nature and wildlife for people living in urban areas. Conservation Volunteers are building a sustainable strategy for the management of this area and invite volunteers to be a part of this management with activities including weed removal, watering, tree trimming, track maintenance, tree planting, wildlife monitoring and surveys (native frogs), and much more.  

For further information please contact our Darwin Office on 08 8981 3206 or email darwin@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. 

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Green Gym at the Beach is a fun and free outdoor program that improves your health and wellbeing by being active in nature while also helping the environment. As part of a small group, you can join in practical marine debris surveys as you make a difference in the beautiful beaches around Darwin. We also provide you with a delicious morning tea.

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Come and reconnect with your local environment and help to control coffee bush in the Rapid Creek catchment area. 

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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. 

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Join us for the Annual Bushcare Major Day out at McMinns Lagoon Wildlife Reserve on September 16th - 9:00am - 1:00pm.

Activities will include -

Bird Surveys and Ecology talks

Learning how to plant your own tree!

Learn about -

Weed species in the Top End

Crocodile Safety in the Top End

Bushfire Awareness

Come and enjoy a Lions Club Sausage Sizzle

Waterwatch and Greening Australia will also be present.

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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.

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