BACKGROUND TO MK Y2Y CONSULTATION

Millennium Kids (MK) is working with the Western Australian Museum and the Commissioner for Children and Young People to offer young people an opportunity to have a say about how the Museum presents it’s exhibitions and collections through an innovative series of workshops and training activities. It’s all part of a new initiative to consult with young people about the future directions of the Western Australian Museum.

Millennium Kids will be scouring the region for inspiring people with stories to tell or exhibit to inspire young people in the lead up to the workshops.

The MK Team have already consulted with a number of people who have some fabulous exhibition concepts around the things that inspire them about the local region.

On the 1 April a team of thirty interested young people will be trained as facilitators who will lead the one day workshop on 2 June with one hundred young delegates.

Photographs of Albany Times Past - IMAGES COURTESY ALBANY HISTORY COLLECTION, ALBANY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Gilbert's Potoroo - Tony Friend

Tony Friend is the Principal Research Scientist in Albany for the Department of Environment and Conservation.

Tony is very passionate about Albany and the Gilbert's Potoroo - Australia's most endangered mammal.

For the past 10 years Tony has dedicated his work to the conservation of this small marsupial.

The Gilbert's Potoroo is slightly smaller than a rabbit with a very thick grey-brown coat. The only place they are found in the world is within dense scrub on a ruggered, windswept area near the Southern Ocean.


Interesting fact! The Gilbert's Potoroo was originally named as "Ngil-gyte" by the local Indigenous people.

Stay tuned for the Millennium Kids radio interview with Tony Friend to be posted shortly!

For more info on the Potteroo head to: http://www.potoroo.org/

Many thanks to Dick Walker and the Gilbert’s Potoroo Action Group for the above photograph of the Gilbert's Potoroo.

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1 comment:

Nathaniel said...

I like the potoroos my sister went hunting for them once, not hunting, just looking for them as part of a organisation that were studying them.

May 19, 2009 at 8:52 PM

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