Bayside Pollinator Corridor

Living Streets That Connect Our Community

Our streets can be more than just paths for cars – they can be nature super-highways.

The Bayside Pollinator Corridor is Village Zero's flagship project, designed to transform our suburban streets into thriving wildlife highways. By planting indigenous plants on nature strips, we're creating connected pathways that help our indigenous bees, butterflies and hoverflies, as well as and other insect pollinators and flower-visitors, move safely between our beaches, parks, and reserves.

Why This Matters

Right now, our green spaces are like islands: beautiful but isolated. When pollinators can't travel safely between them, both plants and animals struggle to survive. The Bayside Pollinator Corridor changes this by creating "stepping stones" of indigenous plants that connect existing green spaces like Bay Road Heathland Sanctuary, George Street Reserve, and our stunning foreshore.

The result? A stronger ecosystem that supports local wildlife, helps our community gardens thrive, and makes our streets more beautiful and climate-resilient.

Everyone Can Participate

Start Small

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Transform your nature strip with indigenous plants that attract and feed pollinators. Even a few plants make a difference, and we have our wonderful local Community Nursery in Reserve Road to support this. This list of plants will also be helpful

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Become a community-based citizen scientist! Simply photograph insect pollinators and flowering plants you spot around Bayside using your phone. This data tracks how our corridor is growing and the changes we see over time.

Connect With Neighbours

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Connect With Neighbours

Help your street become a pollinator highway by encouraging neighbours to join in. When whole streets participate, the benefitsimpact multiplyies. Can you see your street on the map? If not - reach out to us!

Learn Together

Working With Council

Connect With Neighbours

Join our community planting days and bioblitz events. You'll learn about local ecology while meeting like-minded community members.

Working With Council

This project complements existing council initiatives and follows all guidelines for nature strip plantings. We're working alongside council effortsnot replacing official programs but and empowering residents to take action! while working alongside council efforts. We can also learn from local resident, Annie, who transformed her nature strip and shared her story for inspiration.

Meet Our Pollinator Heroes

Blue-banded bees, green grass-dart butterflies, hoverflies, and the rare Meomyia bee-fly – these are our local "indicator species" that tell us how thriving the Bayside Pollinator Corridorhealthy our environment is becoming. When we start seeing more of these indigenousnative pollinators in our gardens and streets, we know our corridor is working. They're like nature's report card, showing us that we're creating the right conditions for biodiversity to flourish.

These special and charismatic pollinators are local species become our project’s mascots, making it easy for families to get excited about spotting them. Kids love searching for the fuzzy blue-banded bees or the quick-darting butterflies, turning every walk into a nature treasure hunt. When neighbours start sharing photos of "their" bee-fly or celebrating the first hoverfly sighting of the season, the project becomes personal and fun building real community momentum around conservation.

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The Science Made Simple

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Our approach is based on solid ecological principles, but you don't need a science degree to participate. Think of it like creating a network of "service stations" for pollinators – places where they can rest, feed, and shelter as they travel through our suburbs.

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Through citizen science, we can track:
Which plants attract the most pollinators
How the number of pollinator species numbers changes over time
Where new corridor connections are most needed
The health of our local ecosystem

Part of Something Bigger

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Part of Something Bigger

The Bayside Pollinator Corridor connects with similar community-led projects across Melbourne, including The Heart Gardening Project, Rewilding Stonnington, and the Merri-Creek Blue Banded Bee Campaign. Together, we're creating a metropolitan network of wildlife corridors.

Getting Started is Easy

Ready to help create living streets in Bayside? Here's your next step:

Contact us to learn about upcoming community planting events, get advice on the best native plants for your nature strip, or find out how to use citizen science apps to start tracking local wildlife.

Every pollinator corridor starts with one person, one plant, one nature strip.

Village Zero Sandringham

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Bayside Pollinator Corridor

Living Streets That Connect Our Community

Why This Matters

Everyone Can Participate

Start Small

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Connect With Neighbours

Use iNaturalist as a Science Tool

Connect With Neighbours

Learn Together

Working With Council

Connect With Neighbours

Working With Council

Working With Council

Working With Council

Meet Our Pollinator Heroes

Site Content

The Science Made Simple

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Part of Something Bigger

Real Impact, Measurable Results

Part of Something Bigger

Getting Started is Easy

Ready to help create living streets in Bayside? Here's your next step:

Village Zero Sandringham

Hours

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