Organisers: Bronwen and Greg Keighery, Julia Cullity and Lyle Wood. Meet: TBC: Start visit to Woodman Point from Woodman Point View Drive. Time: 10.00am Time allowed:  90 mins – 2 hours Highlights: tracts of undisturbed coastal vegetation, including Tuart (Eucalyptus gomphocephala), Rottnest Cypress (Callitris preissii) and Rottnest Tea Tree (Melaleuca lanceolata) (identified as a threatened ecological community).

Date: Thursday 12th July 2018 Meet: Meeting Room, City West Lotteries House, Delhi Street West Perth. Time: 6.00pm for light refreshments. Talk starts at 6.30pm sharp. How to get there: City West Lotteries House is only 100metres from City West train station on the Fremantle line. Exit to south side of train station onto Delhi […]

Presented by Michael Hammond, Senior Scientific Officer, Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.

Meet at Burns Beach car park (end of Ocean Parade off Burns Beach Road). Walk: Northern end of Bush Forever 325 between Burns Beach and Iluka. Distance: Approx. 3.7km return ( shorter option for those who would like a lift back from Iluka). All along made walking paths. Highlights: Coastal flora and fauna. Transition from […]

Meet: at the entrance gate at the end of O’Leary Road (parking in O’Leary Road) How to get there: Mitchell Freeway turn west at Hepburn Avenue, then turn right at Gibson Avenue, then first turn right is O’Leary Road. Note: The Hepburn Woodland Preservation Group (HWPG) was formed in 1988 to advocate and agitate to […]

Presented by Margaret Owen and Paddy Berry.

Guest speaker: Dr Hugh Finn, Chair of the Board, Environmental Defenders Office Title: “The Invisible Harm: Land Clearing and the Welfare of Our Native Fauna” Hugh puts the view that another reason to avoid clearing and another reason to value native vegetation is the harm that land clearing causes to individual wild animals. Hugh will […]

The UBC has organized a very special speaker for you at our General Meeting in April! So save this date: Monday 15th April, 6pm when Dr Jane Chambers will speak of how she and her team at Murdoch University are setting a feverish pace to unravel why plan after plan at State and Local level […]

This interesting event may be of interest to followers of UBC events as the talk will focus on Banksia Woodlands and may be of interest to some in our wider community. The Peel-Harvey Catchment Council (PHCC) are very keen to work with like-minded groups to support on-ground conservation action in the Peel-Harvey on the Woodlands, […]

Black cockatoos and Banksias are much-loved icons of our natural heritage. Enjoy a morning learning about these bushland jewels at Bold Park. Here you can share information on their nature and interdependence and the fragility of their numbers. You will also learn about community efforts to conserve them into the future. Explore Bold Park with […]