Greening Perth – Greening Our Future

What would Perth look like if nature was woven back through our suburbs — connecting bushland, cooling our neighbourhoods and giving wildlife room to move? A free event at Scitech with Dr. Jane Chambers, how connecting people and nature through urban greening can improve the quality of life for all species in Perth.

OUR SPEAKERS

Keynote: Dr Jane Chambers

Director of NatureLink Perth and Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Conservation Sciences at Murdoch University. Be inspired by Dr Jane Chambers, as she shares a vision of Perth and Peel as a green city connected to nature, promoting our health and wellbeing while sustaining our globally significant biodiversity….and most importantly – how we are going get there and how you can be part of it. Creating multifunctional greenspaces, using a science-based approach to ensure urban greening promotes ecological connectivity, function and services and giving us all a sense of place. Learn how you can help wildlife move safely between fragmented remnant bushland through naturelinks and stepping stone habitat plantings. Every bit we do makes a difference!

Speaker: Caitlin Broadfoot

Caitlin is the GIS Project Coordinator in the Urban Greening Team at the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, where she enjoys combining her background in environmental science and sustainability with a passion for data and equitable access to nature. She played a pivotal role in the redesigned Urban Greening Dashboard which the Department hopes will evolve to become a valuable, shared resource to engage the community in urban greening. Caitlin will take us on a tour of the dashboard, highlighting its features, tips, and tricks to help you explore how vegetation is distributed in our region and communities.

Speaker: Sue Conlan

Longstanding volunteer for both Urban Bushland Council and Friends of Mosman Park Bushland. Formerly a medical scientist, Sue now practices full time in preventative medicine and assists community to restore their local bushland. Sue will explain how you can be part of the Perth’s Urban Greening strategy by applying for a Let’s Grow Grant, available through DPLH to create pockets of local vegetation around schools, sports ovals, public buildings, verges and any available local  spaces in your community to create habitat for local wildlife, cool our suburbs and encourage active transport.

Team up with a community group, school, Local Government and a volunteer bushcare group to Green your suburb.

Join us at Scitech

We are holding this event at Scitech in the Chevron Science Theatre. There is excellent public transport: Scitech is on the north side of the City West Train Station.  Enter the City West Centre from Plaistowe Mews. There is also paid parking below Scitech.  As a visitor to Scitech you can access a $5 for 5 hours parking ticket via parking machines located inside (ie upstairs) at the City West Centre. Just remember to make a note of your licence plate number. Light refreshments will be available from 6 pm and the presentations will commence at 6:30 pm.

Thank you to Scitech for making the Chevron Science Theatre available to the Urban Bushland Council for this very important theme of urban greening.