If you are a land owner in either the City of Greater Geelong, Hume City Council, City of Melton or Port Phillip and Western Port CMA, get out there and apply for this outstanding collaborative incentive. These incentives are supported by the Australian Government National Landcare Program and provide the opportunity for land owners … Continue reading Valuing our Volcanic Plains 2016 Government Grants →

  Understanding a weed problem early is one of the best things you can do to avoid a long process of elimination for years to come. Local landholders around Western Melbourne have come to realise this. Declared noxious and environmental weeds will colonise both native and introduced pastures, and their spread is most rapid in … Continue reading Protecting Rural Properties – Weed Reduction →

  The european rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) was introduced in 1859 in Australia for hunting and soon became a pest. Rabbit control methods have included poisoning, warren and harbour destruction via ripping, shooting, trapping, exclusion fencing, biological control (rabbit haemorrhagic disease and myxomatosis) and fumigation. Aus Eco Solutions most commonly uses fumigation in rabbit management. This … Continue reading Pest Management in Victoria’s Western Regions →

Roadsides provide a ready means for invasive plants and rabbits to spread throughout Victoria and threaten Victorian parks, forests and rural land asset values, and are a major concern for government and private land managers. They have serious impacts on agricultural production and hinder the long-term sustainability of the environment and rural communities. Aus Eco … Continue reading Conserving Roadsides in Southern Victoria – Wyndham Weed Control →

The Northern Grasslands Reserve contains two critically endangered species. The Spiny Rice-Flower (Pimelea spinescence subsp. Spinescens) and the Striped Legless Lizard (Delma impar). The Northern Grassland is also protected under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act 1999) for being recognised as a Nationally Threatened Ecological Community of the Victorian Volcanic Pain (Natural … Continue reading Critically endangered species management for the Boral Northern Grasslands. (Pimelea Spinescens/Spiny Rice-Flower). →

Discovering My Life Purpose Written By Kerrie Guppy, Managing Director (written in April 2013 but still holds true two years later in March 2015) Discovering my life purpose “to help people connect with our Earth and themselves” has taken me a while. Now that I have discovered my life purpose I feel a sense of … Continue reading Helping people connect with our Earth and themselves →

 Barefoot bowls – 19 December 2014 Written by Kerrie Guppy, Managing Director As we celebrated our 10th Aus Eco Solutions birthday last year, a fellow entrepreneur told me that the number 11 is a significant number in numerology so to expect big things in this eleventh year of business! Well we are making that prediction happen … Continue reading Big Expectations for 2015 →

Shakira Todd Field Coordinator Currently we are discussing a project at Boral Northern Grassland Reserve. We are aiming to reintroduce Dingo Canis into the grassland to increase biodiversity and naturally act as a 24/7 natural pest management towards feral mesopredators such as foxes and cats and to suppress herbivore competition of the European rabbit. I have … Continue reading Boral Dingo Project – Northern Grassland Reserve →

Written by Danielle Curnow-Andreasen – Field Coordinator at Aus Eco Solutions Our team at Aus Eco Solutions has the pleasure of spending time managing three small grasslands in Altona. It is a sensitive area and we keep chemical use to a minimum, spraying carefully with a knapsack. We partake in a lot of hand weeding … Continue reading Blanalko Grassland – Burns Rd Altona. →

How exciting to write our first blog on the tenth birthday of our conservation and land management business! And even more excitement to be launching our new website today! Today our crews are busy out restoring nature back to its original state along waterways and in grasslands across the western regions of Melbourne. Over the … Continue reading Ten years of exciting times and more to come →