From classroom to conservation: Monaro school students leave their mark on endangered dragons 29 May 2026 – NSW Government Department of Environment and Heritage School students across Monaro are helping track one of NSW’s rarest reptiles through a school program that’s turning classrooms into conservation hubs. As part of the ‘Discovering Dragons’ program led by the NSW Government’s Saving our Species program, local students have been learning about the native Monaro Grassland Earless Dragon while contributing directly to monitoring work in the field. A key feature of the program has been inviting students to suggest names for newly recorded dragons detected during monitoring surveys. Students submitted 96 names, with 39 already adopted by field teams this season, including ‘DJ 67’, ‘Baby Godzilla’, ‘Bartholemu’, ‘Toby’, ‘Clover’ and ‘Larry’. The program builds on a 2024 pilot that introduced students to the species through a presentation and a creative activity involving painting a […]
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