The Darebin Parklands Association is a United Nations Association of Australia award-winning environmental friends group that cares for Darebin Parklands, 10 kilometres north-east of Melbourne. Since 1973 the DPA has worked with the community to transform a degraded horse paddock and former tip into one of Melbourne's best urban bushland reserves, now home to echidna, flying foxes, native fish and frogs, 70 species of birds and the occasional kangaroo. We have planted hundreds of thousands of trees, built facilities such as a bridge over the Darebin Creek and a lookout tower and tackled weeds and rubbish. The DPA also runs 10 community events a year, including bonfire night and the Darebin Parklands Picnic Races, and has a Junior Ranger Club for kids aged less than 16, with activities including nest box building workshops, ranger-led spotlight walks and Catch a Carp Day.

Your tax deductible donation will help the DPA continue its work. We have no administrative overheads, as our committee are volunteers, so 100 per cent of donated funds go toward projects in the parklands such as:

• Publishing our history Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine, by Dr Sarah Mirams, with foreword by former Australian of the Year, Professor Tim Flannery
• Running Junior Ranger Club events
• Revegetation work, such as our Ivanhoe floodplain project, which has seen 10,000 trees planted along a 200 metre section of the creek.