Bilby Merchandise
Visit our online shop to purchase a wide range of bilby merchandise including children’s books, bilby toys and much more. Please help us in our work to save the bilby.
National Bilby Day
Frank is constantly looking for ways to draw the attention of the Australian community to the plight of the bilby.
In 2002, he came up with the idea of having a National Bilby Day and started to lobby the Federal Government to gazette this day. He was finally successful in achieving this in 2005. Frank now uses National Bilby Day to promote community events to fundraise and create awareness about the bilby.
In 2007, he invented the Face the Challenge Endangered Species Crossword Competition and together with Joanne Johnstone from Planet Press, invited schools from around Australia to use this competition as a research opportunity to learn more about our endangered species. Many schools from every state in Australia join the competition every year and hopefully learn more about why so many species are under threat. To see the competition, please go to the Schools link in our website.
Pictured above: Senator Ian Campbell (Australia’s Federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage in 2005) at the launch of National Save the Bilby Day held at Parliament House in June 2005.
Pictured left: Save the Bilby Fund co-founders Frank Manthey and Peter McRae with Darrell Lea CEO John Tolmie and Senator Ian Campbell at the launch of National Bilby Day held at Parliament House in Canberra where Darrell Lea handed over a cheque for over $35,000 from proceeds of the sales of their chocolate bilbies.
