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Artist fights arum lilies
Leon Pericles is one of the most visited artists during Margaret River Open Studios, but this year he is using his high profile to campaign for Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Arum Lily Blitz. A prolific printmaker, painter and sculptor whose celebrated...
Caring for nature at Cape Naturaliste
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...
Drying climate needs action on all fronts
Water in our drying climate is a “confronting and pressing issue – and we need everyone acting on all fronts to do what they can”, says the region’s peak conservation group. The latest event in Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Environmental Sundowner Series...
Holiday homeowners needed for arum lily fight
Anyone with a holiday home in the Margaret River region is being urged to attend a free arum lily control workshop to help in the fight against the toxic invasive weed. Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Arum Lily Blitz coordinates 2000 landholders as well as...
Conservation and art combine in the classroom
Art and conservation are combining in the classroom for students across the region, as part of an exciting new initiative in Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s youth education program Adopt a Spot. The Adopt a Spot program has been running for almost a decade...
Wattles and wine combine
Weedy wattles and wine will combine at Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s latest free community event aimed at helping locals identify and remove our worst weed trees. Nature Conservation is teaming up with Goanna Bush Cafe and Happs Wines in the fight...
Say goodbye to Sydney Golden Wattle
One of our region’s worst weed trees - Sydney Golden Wattle - is blooming and the message from Nature Conservation Margaret River Region is to remove these weedy invaders now while they are easy to identify. The worst weedy trees in the region are in the firing line...
Water in our drying climate
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...
Landholders team up for Arum Lily Blitz
If there’s one thing these Augusta residents have learned, it’s that tackling the threat of invasive weeds as part of the Arum Lily Blitz is a team effort. Scott Godley owns a wetland bush block in Augusta where the toxic lilies once dominated the landscape,...
Beach clean-ups to care for coast
A group of young environmental champions is running a series of beach clean-ups – with the collected rubbish to be used in a new art project. Locals Ruth Szandtner, Bronte Halden, Lili Palmer, Vivi Corteen-Hartley and Riley Hughes are among 12 candidates in Nature...
Not so Sweet Pittosporum
Its flowers may be aromatic but there is nothing sweet about Sweet Pittosporum, which is a serious weed tree and is being targeted now in Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s woody weeds campaign. To help in the fight against this and other weedy trees that...
Caring for coastal granite communities
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...
Snake-neck turtle conservation
Students from Margaret River Primary School are on a mission to protect our native snake-neck turtle – and they want the community to lend a hand. The Year 6 students are working with Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s youth education program Our Patch to...
Caring for our special shore birds
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...
Arum Lily Blitz is back!
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...
Woody weed community workshops
Weeds are one of the biggest threats to our region’s biodiversity and Nature Conservation Margaret River Region is running three free community workshops this month to help fight the invaders. The first workshop is Wednesday, June 5 from 10am-11.30am near the St John...
Nature the antidote to eco-anxiety
These local students aren’t just planting natives to care for our environment – they’re also getting their hands dirty in the name of mental health and fighting a growing trend of “eco-anxiety”. Nature Conservation Margaret River Region says, in a world where the...
Caring for dunes at Gas Bay
These before and after shots show how Gas Bay has got its mojo back, says Nature Conservation Margaret River Region. Gas Bay is well known for its pumping beach-break waves and sweeping coastline looking south towards Boodjidup, and Gas Point is the perfect spot to...
Locals learning about Wooditjup Bilya
Locals can learn more about the Margaret River’s unique fauna and fish from a leading river researcher at the next Friends of Wooditjup Bilya event hosted by Nature Conservation Margaret River Region. Associate Professor Stephen Beatty, the deputy director of the...
Leeuwin Naturaliste National Park needs urgent funding
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...
River restorers in action
Nature Conservation’s latest fully booked Friends of Wooditjup Bilya event was a huge success as keen locals aged from their teens to their 80s learned how to become river restorers. The latest Friends event featured a guided tour of river restorer Ray Swarts’...
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