Conservation Tours

Powerful Owl (endangered)

Positive Conservation

Power to change for the better..

“Echidna Walkabout’s driving principle is positive conservation,” says Janine Duffy, head of Echidna Walkabout’s Conservation Program

“We believe people protect what they know, and what they love.

“So we set out to create a style of tourism that not only minimizes negative effects on the environment, but positively creates a sense of wonder, an understanding, a power to change for the better.” says Janine.

Which is why every every Echidna Walkabout tour has a conservation action.

By choosing one of the tours below you will help nature while you enjoy it.

Conservation Stories

A future for the You Yangs region

A future for the You Yangs region

Serendip Sanctuary and the You Yangs Range west of Melbourne MEDIA RELEASE Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Parks Victoria is putting together a Master Plan for the You Yangs Region. Submission deadline is 16 October, 2019 We, and the koalas, urgently need your...

5 Amazing Facts about Brushtail Possums

5 Amazing Facts about Brushtail Possums

by Morwenna Petaia ‘Brushies’ are some of our favourite animal sightings on tours. Though considered common*, they are quite secretive and solitary in the Australian Bush, and seeing a Common Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula at night is a special and wonderful...

Cute and Playful Young Dingo

Cute and Playful Young Dingo

He looked at us, warily. We stayed still. We expected the cute young Dingo to run off, wary as most predators are. We have seen wild Dingoes in East Gippsland, Victoria, and they’ve always been very quick to disappear. He trotted away from us along the roadside for a...