National Bilby Day
Sunday 14th of September 2025
The bilby is the only Australian animal with an official gazetted day of celebration! This is because the bilby is so incredibly important as a flagship species – if they survive, so do many other threatened species and so they are the perfect critter to front biodiversity month in September.
It is National Bilby Day on the second Sunday of September – the 14th in 2025. Frank Manthey, led the campaign for this – the only gazetted day in Australia that celebrates one of our amazing native species.
Threatened Species Day is held on the 7th of September annually; this date marks the death of the last Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger). Save the Bilby Fund is working hard so that the bilbies don’t meet the same fate, but we need your help not only on National Bilby Day but all year round.
Our bilby lovers find many ways to celebrate National Bilby Day. Many of you hold fundraisers at schools or clubs whereas others hold bilby parties. You can Go Green for Bilbies on the Friday before National Bilby Day at your school or work. Ask your workplace or school if you all can dress up for a gold coin donation to Save the Bilby Fund. Reach out to supportercare@savethebilbyfund.org.au and let us know you are Going Green for Bilbies.
Please show us your celebrations by tagging us and hashtagging #nationalbilbyday #savethebilbyfund #gogreenforbilbies on Instagram, TikTok or post to our Facebook page!
Have your school or workplace Go Green for Bilbies on Friday 12th September 2025.
Dress up in green, make or bake green foods, and decorate your school or workplace in green!
You can collect a gold coin donation, host a bake sale, hold a raffle, or have a colouring-in competition and all funds raised can go toward Saving The Greater Bilby,
Please contact supportercare@savethebilbyfund.org.au and let us know if you will Go Green for Bilbies in 2025.
How about hosting a National Bilby Day Party on Sunday 14th September?
You could dress up as Bilbies and eat Bilby-themed treats – sweet potato and mealworms, anyone?
Or host a Sunday afternoon of Bilby Crafts.
Please contact supportercare@savethebilbyfund.org.au and let us know if you will be hosting a National Bilby Day Party.
Our Bilby Loving Supporters
who make and sell Bilby items, craft and products.
Our wonderful community of bilby lovers are also getting involved and you can too!
Buy any of these beautiful bilby items and the Fund will again receive a donation.
National Bilby Day activities for kids or the young at heart
Crochet anyone?
We have these adorable patterns for crocheting your own cute bilby or for a gift for a bilby lover in your life.
If you want to crochet to help raise money for National Bilby Day, we often sell handmade bilbies in our online shop. Please reach out to supportercare@savethebilbyfund.org.au and Beck can help.
Craft Ideas too!
Make a bilby out of paper plates and a cup or a nature bilby, made out of found items. Also here is where you can find your bilby crown for the winner of the poo hunt!
If you make these or try your own construction we definitely would love to see them! Don’t forget to share.
Authors and books that support bilby conservation
The wonderful Kaye Kessing and Ali Garnett book .
Easter Bilby has helped turn the focus on our native creatures and supports the Easter message of hope and new life.
Kris Sheather
Kris Sheather, the author of Bedtime Bilby, has been a very generous contributor to Save the Bilby Fund since 2017 when Kris published Bedtime Bilby and has been donating to the fund ever since.
Lyn Blanch, Save the bilby Fund supporter for many years, is a delightful children author and a long term supporter of bilby conservation.
This can also be bought in our online shop or click here to check out the author.
Are you an educator? Read this book with your students and use the sheets available here.