by Trevor Paddenburg | Aug 10, 2024 | Advocacy, News & Events
Nature across a huge swathe of Cape Naturaliste will be protected and enhanced in an ambitious new project to be delivered by an alliance of community, government and volunteer groups. The Friends of Meelup have won a $300,000 State Natural Resource Management Program...
by Trevor Paddenburg | Jul 12, 2024 | Advocacy, News & Events
Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Environmental Sundowner Series is back with an evening that tackles the issue on everyone’s lips – water in our drying climate. Facing the Big Dry will be held on Tuesday, July 30 from 6pm-8pm at Nala Bardip Mia (Margaret...
by Trevor Paddenburg | Jun 14, 2024 | Advocacy, News & Events
Areas of coastal granite are like Noah’s Arks for rare and special plants, says Nature Conservation Margaret River Region – and you’re invited to help protect them at a series of upcoming volunteer days. The community is urged to turn out to plant natives and protect...
by Trevor Paddenburg | Jun 6, 2024 | Advocacy, News & Events
Do you know an oyster catcher from an osprey or a kestrel from a Pacific gull? Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Caring for Coast program is putting the spotlight on our region’s special coastal bird species – and wants every local to be able to identify...
by Trevor Paddenburg | May 30, 2024 | Advocacy, News & Events
Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Arum Lily Blitz is back, and this year there’s also a new app to help in the fight against our region’s worst invasive weed species. To kick-start the arum lily control season, Nature Conservation has launched a new mobile...
by Trevor Paddenburg | May 16, 2024 | Advocacy, News & Events
The beloved Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park is “underfunded and under resourced” and continual promotion of the park without significant investment in its protection and restoration is “inappropriate”. That’s the message more than 200 people heard at the latest in...
