Totes for Wildlife

Totes for Wildlife will highlight a local threatened species each year and, through the sale of special edition tote bags, raise funds for the vital conservation projects we and our partners undertake to protect them. 

This year, the Helmeted Honeyeater is in need of critical help.

The Helmeted Honeyeater

The Critically Endangered Helmeted Honeyeater (Lichenostomus melanops cassidix) is Victoria’s bird emblem. Found nowhere else in Australia, current estimates of the wild population are at 230 birds in only a few small locations east of Melbourne.

With habitat availability continuing to threaten the long term survival of this species, Zoos Victoria is working with partners to plant new habitat and improve habitat quality. 

Thanks to your support purchasing bags last year, 5,000 trees are scheduled to be planted from July by Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater in Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve to create new habitat for these birds.

You can help

As the number of Helmeted Honeyeaters in the wild increases, more habitat is needed to secure their future.

The sale of every Totes for Wildlife bag will buy a tree to be planted for the Helmeted Honeyeater.
These trees are scheduled to be planted to improve habitat quality within Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve in early-mid 2021.