City West Lotteries House

TO CARE FOR URBAN BUSHLAND Project Update Hear about our new approach to capacity building for Friends groups, our trials and tribulations and our successes. Find out where are we now, what’s coming up and how this project can benefit all our groups. And come along and meet Johanna Riddell, our project officer. The Project […]

Come along to our next workshop and learn from the experts.  Register now for: Understanding the Environmental Protection Act & How it Can Save Urban Bushland Presenters: Matthew Tonts, Chair - Environmental Protection Authority Dr Hugh Finn, experienced environmental lawyer from Curtin University Law School Tim Macknay, Environmental Defenders Office Mary Gray OAM and Marg […]

Recruiting and retaining volunteers is a significant challenge being faced by many of our “Friends of” groups. And yet, many young people are engaged in volunteering. In Mission Australia's 2020 survey of young Australians volunteering was reported as one of the three top activities (after sports and about the same as arts activities). Furthermore, young […]

Russell Miller is a PhD candidate, Murdoch University, Kings Park Science and will discuss his research on the fire ecology of Banksia woodlands. Banksia woodlands have a long association with fire. Over tens of thousands of years, our local plant species have developed strategies not only to tolerate but sometimes benefit from recurrent fire. A […]

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 […]

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 […]

Presented by Margaret Owen and Paddy Berry.

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

Come along on 21st June and ask Andrea Gaynor and Peter Newman, who have written the text book about this Never Again: Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8, UWA Press. Please come along with your questions which may concern protection of your local bushland, as well as the ‘big picture’ issues. Professor Peter Newman […]

Date: Thursday 10th May 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 […]