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The Darebin Parklands Association (DPA) is a United Nations Association of Australia award-winning environmental friends group that cares for the Darebin Parklands, a 33 hectare bushland reserve on the border of Alphington and Ivanhoe in Melbourne, Australia.
Please take a look around our website to find out how you can get involved in the parklands through our events, Junior Ranger Club and revegetation projects.
Latest news
Special post-flood cleanup day
The Darebin Parklands Association is holding a special cleanup day on Sunday 19 February 2012 to help the parklands recover from the Christmas Day hailstorms and rain. Details on the events page.
Darebin Parklands - The Book
How to order Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
In person:Due to popular demand, the book is now available from the Darebin Parklands Environment Centre, at the end of Separation Street, in Alphington. Note however that the centre is open at limited times only as the rangers are often in the park working.
We will also be selling books at DPA events in 2012. Our first scheduled event for 2012 is our information evening on 28 February. A full calendar of events will be published shortly on this website and our Facebook page.
By post: download an order form from this page (or pick one up from the parklands environment centre) and post with payment by cheque or money order to PO Box 3, Ivanhoe, 3079.
Online: go to our secure online store and pay using your credit or debit card or PayPal account.
About Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine by Dr Sarah Mirams, with foreword by former Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery, is now available from the DPA's secure online store, where you can purchase with your credit card or PayPal account. Click here to go to our secure online store.
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine is a beautifully illustrated coffee table book that tells the story of the land our park is created on – from the First Nation indigenous owners to the farmers and industrialists who later occupied the site. It tells of how concerted community action over a generation saw the land saved “from the claws of the machine”.
Order the book through our secure online store.
More information about the book here.
Read about the book in The Age here and in The Melbourne Times Weekly here.
Print and post this order form with your payment, or skip the paperwork and purchase through our secure online store.
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Carp Caught at Kids Catch a Carp Day!
23 October 2011
Amazing scenes today in Darebin Parklands as a fish was caught at Kids Catch a Carp Day. Fish are often elusive at our annual kids fishing event, but today fisher-sisters Ivy and Alice R landed a big one, estimated at 6 pounds.
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DPA a Victorian Landcare Awards finalist
14 October 2011
The DPA has has been nominated for the 2011 Victorian Landcare Awards in the Urban Landcare and Community Group sections. The awards are announced by the Governor of Victoria at a ceremony at Government House on 16 November.
The DPA also made the finals of the Keep Australia Beautiful Awards earlier in the year, in the Community Action and Community Leadership sections.
These accolades are a real pat on the back for our members past and present and the other volunteers and Ranger Pete, Ranger Rohen and the other park staff who have contributed so much to the parklands.
Rob Gell to launch parklands book
18 September 2011
Environmental commentator Rob Gell has agreed to launch our book, Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine, on 13 November. Rob's been a long-time supporter of the DPA and parklands (that's him launching the lookout tower in 1990 with the late Vin Heffernan) so we are thrilled that he's coming back to launch our book. To order the book go to our secure online store.For more information about the launch, go to the events page.
For more news, go to the news page or check our Facebook page.
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