Winners, City of Stonnington Volunteer Awards 2023 & 2024: Environmental Sustainability
Highly Commended community group 2021: Jason Whyte individual volunteer nomination 2025
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Rewilding Stonnington formed in 2020. We are a group of volunteers working to reintroduce indigenous and endemic plants, raise public awareness and connect with the pre-colonial heritage of our local area: City of Stonnington and overlapping state and Federal electorates.
We collaborate with other residents and with relevant authorities including our local Council, to replant public and public facing land. Current projects include work on nature strips, pocket parks and land around railway stations through the Station Volunteers program. We also educate and advocate for the inclusion of indigenous plantings in other public spaces.
Our goal is to:
- boost biodiversity
- reduce stormwater runoff
- reduce the urban heat island effect
- improve habitat for native birds and animals
- help combat climate change
- boost community amenity and wellbeing
- boost community resilience
- respect and advocate for Aboriginal ways of caring for country, in consultation with local Traditional Owners.
Acknowledgement of Country
We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples of the East Kulin Nations as the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work. We acknowledge their living connection to Country and culture, paying our respects to ancestors and to Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded.