Education

Mt Rothwell Education

Mt Rothwell is a predator-free environment, home to many of Victoria’s endangered species. The setting helps visitors appreciate what the landscape looked like pre-European settlement, and the animals and plants being studied are many of those species which have existed in this particular area for thousands of years. From a conservation, science, art or a range of VELS and VCE perspectives, this is a wonderful place to bring students.

Mt Rothwell is a conservation and research centre with 400 hectares maintained as a predator free ecosystem, the largest in Victoria. It’s here that management and research is carried out in consultation with a number of government wildlife agencies and research organisations including the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE), Zoos Victoria, Monash University and the University of Melbourne.

The setting for all this activity is ideal given a significant portion of the State’s most threatened ecosystems are here – among them the open grassy woodlands and the Victorian volcanic plains grassland. Not surprisingly, living across this range of ecosystems, which also includes the rocky granite escarpment, is a long list of Victoria’s endangered plant and animal species.

Mt Rothwell is invaluable on many levels, not least the opportunities it offers educators.