Phillip Island Nature Parks is proud to announce a new alliance with Clean Up Australia, encouraging Victorians to help conserve the habitats of Australia’s much loved little penguins and other wildlife.

Over the past five years, the Nature Parks’ Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre has assisted over 100 seriously injured animals as a result of water and land pollution.

“Phillip Island Nature Parks is home to one of the largest little penguin and Australian fur seal colonies in the country. We see first-hand the impacts of land and marine rubbish, including ingestion and entanglement. “The new alliance brings together two not-for-profit organisations under one vision – to clean up and protect Australia’s natural environment for current and future generations,” said Matthew Jackson, CEO of Phillip Island Nature Parks.

Clean Up Australia Day will take place on Sunday 3 March 2013. Phillip Island Nature Parks will be working with local schools and the community in collecting rubbish across the island that will be incorporated into a giant penguin sculpture.

To join Clean Up Australia Day go to www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au