Visitors to Lancefield’s Megafauna Festival will be able to pick the brain of environmentalist and climate change expert Tim Flannery about the town’s prehistoric past.
He will speak on extinction and changes to the central Victorian landscape on November 26 at Lancefield Mechanics Institute.
The week-long festival is a collaboration between Macedon Ranges council, the Extinct-Lancefield Megafauna Festival committee, Bendigo Bank and Lancefield Neighbourhood House.
Flannery, pictured, is a high-profile environmental advocate and author, sacked as Australia’s Chief Climate Commissioner by Malcolm Turnbull in 2013, when he founded the community-funded Australian Climate Council.
The Lancefield Megafauna Festival is a celebration of significant archaeological findings in the settlement. Excavations by the Melbourne Museum reveal giant wombats or Diprotodon roamed the region sometime between 16,000 and 50,000 years ago.
Lancefield swamp is one of Australia’s most significant megafauna sites. Details: 5422 0333
