Locals have an incredible opportunity to learn from an all-star cast of cultural and conservation experts at Nature Conservation’s biggest community volunteer planting day of the year in less than a fortnight. “This is the big one! We need all hands-on deck from our...

Nature Conservation Margaret River Region today launches a new mobile phone app that turns locals into citizen scientists and helps boost nature and biodiversity in our region.   Everyone is urged to download the free Fieldbook app, which allows people to record...

Have you got this woody weed growing at your place? It's a Flinders Range Wattle, which originates from South Australia and is a showy garden shrub growing to 5m. It's flowering now and can be identified by its blue-green leaves and sprays of bright yellow globular...

The next Friends of Wooditjup Bilya event run by Nature Conservation Margaret River Region will feature a guided walk with a riverfront landholder who has turned his property into a nature and wildlife haven. Nature Conservation’s Friends of Wooditjup Bilya (Margaret...

Cowaramup Primary School students learned the significance of Cowaramup Bay and were left with a powerful sense of place after walking the bay’s sandy beaches and granite headland with traditional owners last week. It was part of Nature Conservation Margaret River...

The world’s top surfers have teamed up with Nature Conservation Margaret River Region and a swag of other local groups to care for the coast and protect the region’s beautiful beaches. Ahead of the 2024 Margaret River Pro, local coastal custodians joined surfers from...

Local students are grappling with the question of how nature and mountain biking can successfully coexist as part of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s youth education programs this year. The conservation group’s Our Patch program involves eight classes of...

Fair Harvest Permaculture is teaming up with Nature Conservation Margaret River Region to offer a course to the local community on repairing and rehabilitating riverbanks and wetlands. It’s aimed at landholders who live in or near a catchment area in the Margaret...

We might be in the midst of a balmy autumn, but winter is coming and that means planting and revegetation season for your property, says Nature Conservation Margaret River Region. And whether you have a suburban garden or a rural property, the conservation groups...

Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s hugely successful landholder program has come to an end after inspiring hundreds of locals to give nature a helping hand on their properties. Over the past three years, more than 700 people across the region joined the...

Nature Conservation Margaret River Region will celebrate our incredible native birds at its next community event, which includes a free guided birdwatching walk and hands-on conservation work to boost bird habitat. One of our region’s top birdlife experts, Christine...

Olives are a popular garden plant grown for their fruit and draught tolerance, but Nature Conservation Margaret River Region is warning the Mediterranean species is becoming a problem weed in our bush. Local birdlife has adapted to feed on olives and the seed is...

Local kids are the big winners after one of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s youth programs received a big shot in the arm, winning grant funding to blend environmental learning with culture and art. The Adopt a Spot program has been running for nine years...

If you helped collect dead possums for Nature Conservation Margaret River Region last year, the results are now in from some ground-breaking research done by the University of WA using the animals’ tissue samples. Nature Conservation and residents collected dozens of...

The World Surf League (WSL) has backed an exciting new youth marine program that will give young locals the opportunity to learn from some of the biggest names in coastal conservation, watermanship and leadership. The new youth marine stewardship program is being run...

Almost 300 people packed the Margaret River HEART on Tuesday night to hear about our incredible local marine environment – and the threats posed by human impacts. It was the latest event in Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s Environmental Sundowner Series,...

Botanical royalty Jane Scott will lead a free guided walk along the banks of the Margaret River as part of Nature Conservation Margaret River Region’s packed calendar of events this year. The author of the official Cape to Cape Track guidebook – as well as many titles...

An Australia-first marine program made a splash in Margaret River today, turning local students into citizen scientists and empowering them to solve problems affecting our ocean and coastline.  The Waatu Kaatijin or “Ocean Learning” program run by Nature Conservation...

Blue Periwinkle, Dolichos Pea and Pandora Vine – they’re the unholy trinity of creeping weedy vines that threaten our bushland, and Nature Conservation Margaret River Region says now is the time to control them. The conservation group says all three weeds can smother...