August Speaker event

Upcoming Event: August Meeting!

Mark your calendars for our next event on August 2nd at 2 PM at the Woodend Community Centre. We’re excited to feature two excellent speakers: Gayle Osborne from Wombat Forestcare and Andrew Dilley, who will be sharing insights on Orchids. Don’t miss it!

Gayle Osborne from Wombat Forestcare will present on the Wombat State Forest and the work of Wombat Forestcare.The presentation will cover a brief overview of the endangered fauna and flora of the Wombat State Forest and then discuss the campaign for the legislation of the promised Wombat-Lerderderg National Park and the environmentally damaging salvage logging.

Gayle lives on a bush block in the Wombat State Forest and is the convenor and a founding member of Wombat Forestcare Inc., which was instrumental in lobbying the state government for a Victorian Environmental Assessment Council (VEAC) investigation into a number of state forests in the Wombat and Mt Cole areas. Wombat Forestcare is actively campaigning for the Victorian government to legislate the promised national and other parks in the central west of Victoria. 

Andrew Dilley is an amateur orchid enthusiast specialising in Australian terrestrial orchids. He has been a member of the Australasian Native Orchid Society (Victoria Group) for 26 years.  During that time he has been the Conservation Officer, President and is still the webmaster for the society. 
He has cultivated native orchids and run numerous orchid activities throughout Victoria and interstate, and his main focus has always been on conservation.

His talk will focus on the terrestrial orchids of Victoria, the various conservation programs he has been involved in and the orchids that you can expect to find in the Macedon Ranges and surrounding areas.