East Gippsland Art Gallery invites the community to commemorate National Threatened Species Day 2025, on Saturday, September 6 from 10am to 12pm.
This free, family-friendly event will celebrate the creativity of local students who have been learning about and responding to the region’s unique and endangered wildlife through art.
The event will feature a Flying Fox talk for kids at 10am and drop-in art workshops at the gallery, and from there, a guided walk through the student installation in the town gardens.
East Gippsland Shire is home to more than 150 fauna species and many more plant species threatened with extinction, highlighting the region’s remarkable biodiversity and the urgent need for its protection.
Students from have been working with Areka Brown from East Gippsland Art Gallery, to
paint garden stakes representing local threatened species – that will be installed as part of a temporary artwork trail in the Bairnsdale Main Street Gardens.
East Gippsland students involved in the project discovered some little-known local species many had never heard of — including the East Gippsland Spiny Crayfish, the Australian Grayling, the Giant Burrowing Frog, and Precious Pookila (also known as the New Holland Mouse).
National Threatened Species Day is commemorated annually across Australia on the anniversary of the death in captivity of the last known Tasmanian Tiger.
This day is to raise awareness of plants and animals at risk of extinction.
Australia is home to many animal and plant species, most of which are found nowhere else in the world, but sadly Australia also has one of the highest mammal extinction rates in the world.
Over the past 200 years, more than 100 animal and plant species have become extinct in
this country.
Come along, see the artwork, learn about
local wildlife and show your support for protecting the threatened fauna that calls East
Gippsland home.
