Nangak TamboreeWildlife Sanctuary

Thirty hectares of restored woodland, grassland and wetland on the Bundoora campus of La Trobe University, on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country fifteen kilometres north of Melbourne. The land had been cleared for farming and recreation — Mont Park hospital's old cricket and croquet fields were here — before a fifty-year volunteer-led restoration project, begun in 1967, turned it back into the habitat it had been. Wild kangaroos, possums, emus, kookaburras and wetland birds live here now; one of the surviving river red gums carries a Wurundjeri canoe scar. Two self-guided walking trails through the sanctuary, Sunday to Friday between 10 and 3, with twilight tours bookable for organised groups. The site was renamed from La Trobe Wildlife Sanctuary to Nangak Tamboree in recognition of the Wurundjeri name for the place. The seventy-hectare Gresswell Nature Conservation Reserves adjoin to the north-east — together they form one of Melbourne's largest contiguous native-habitat corridors