Upper Billabong Refreshing Rivers – Great Southern BioBlitz 2025

Upper Billabong Refreshing Rivers – Great Southern BioBlitz 2025 

 

24–27 October 2025

 

Holbrook Region

Holbrook Landcare and the Refreshing Rivers Program invite YOU to take part in the Great Southern BioBlitz – a fun, hands-on weekend of nature discovery with a focus on our beautiful creeks and waterways in the Upper Billabong region!

 

What is a BioBlitz?

It’s a snapshot intime where the community and scientists work together to record as many species as possible – from plants and birds to fungi and frogs!

How to get involved:

Download the iNaturalist app (free!)

Create a login

 

Join our iNaturalist Projects:

  •  Great Southern BioBlitz     2025 – Greater Hume
  •  Refreshing Rivers –     Umbrella Project
  •  Refreshing Rivers –     Upper Billabong

 

We’ll be hosting events across the weekend in Holbrook and Woomargama – stay tuned for more details soon!

Let’s get outside, explore our creeks, and celebrate local biodiversity – one photo at a time! 

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The Refreshing Rivers Program is a collaboration between government, industry, research, and community organisations, led by Local Land Services. This Program has been assisted by the New South Wales Government through its Environmental Trust.

The Refreshing Rivers Program works on Country that always was and always will be Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters, and we pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

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