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Bushcare Boosters Training

Wentworth Falls School of the Arts Corner of The Great Western Highway and Adele Ave , Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia

If you are a current or prospective Blue Mountains Community Conservation Volunteer -Bushcare, Landcare, Bush Backyards members - you are invited to the 3rd and last of our essential training modules for the year:  Weed Control Techniques  and Working Safely. This is a free half day interactive Bushcare Boosters training workshop presented by the very experienced, qualified Bushcare Boosters […]

Wildlife Monitoring Workshop – spotlighting & other non-invasive survey techniques

Sun Valley Sun Valley, NSW, Australia

Sugar Glider in Blue Gum Swamp by Peter Smith Lower Blue Mountains Bushcare, Landcare, Swampcare and Bush Backyards Volunteers: How healthy is the biodiversity of your Bushcare site? Do you want to know more about the fauna that lives in the lower mountains bushland? To learn ways to find out, you're invited to t attend […]

Free

AABR field trip to Broken Hill

AABR field trip to Broken Hill, 22-24 August 2017 The Australian Association of Bush Regenerators is holding a 3-day bush regen field trip to the internationally significant Broken Hill Regeneration Reserves, to visit local sites and attend an Awards dinner. The dinner is to inaugurate a major restoration industry award to honour the late 1930s […]

Citizen Science in Action Symposium

Hawkesbury Campus Bourke Street, Richmond, NSW, Australia

Western Sydney University and Greater Sydney Local Land Services  would like to invite you to attend the Citizen Science in Action symposium. Held at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury campus in Richmond, NSW, this one-day event will highlight the importance of research and how you can get involved with citizen science. In our interactive workshops you will […]

Lab ‘n’ Live Waterbugs through the looking glass….

Friday 13 and Saturday 14 October Interested in having a closer look at freshwater Waterbugs? Join us for a day in a laboratory with a microscope and a day beside a river. By looking at waterbugs up close under the microscope at preserved specimens, and alive in their natural surrounds, we hope to teach people […]

Seed Collection Workshop

Faulconbridge Community Hall 9-9a Home Street, Faulconbridge, NSW, Australia

This workshop presented by Richard Johnstone will be a introduction to seed collecting. Its a good course for those who are wanting to start practicing seed collection and to explore local native species. We are offering the workshop in the hope that we can attract more volunteers to the seed collection group, but would also like […]

Fauna Spotlight – The Gully, Katoomba

The Gully Katoomba, NSW, Australia

Join us for an evening walk spotlighting for animals big and small. We hope to see aboreal mammals in the trees, small native ground mammals, sedentary birds and we may even see microbats. Bring your quiet voices and good listening skills. This is an outdoor event walking mostly on a formed road but may venture […]

Scoop-a-Poop

Mid Mountains Community Centre New Street, Lawson, NSW, Australia

Saturday, 13th April Come along and be part of ‘citizens tackling antibiotic resistance in the wild’. Scoop-a-Poop is a citizen science project coordinated by scientists from Macquarie University, in collaboration with Taronga Zoo and the University of Sydney. You will learn the ecology of urban brushtail possum, antibiotic resistance in the environment and how antibiotic […]

Free

Fauna Survey – The Gully, Katoomba

The Gully Katoomba, NSW, Australia

Get involved in a fauna workshop this autumn at The Gully. Come along to one or choose to go to all three. Book each session separately. SESSION 1: WELCOME TO COUNTRY & FAUNA SET UP Saturday 27th April, learn from our fauna survey specialist the equipment and techniques used to do a fauna survey, as […]

Free

Sunrise Fauna Bird Walk – The Gully, Katoomba

The Gully Katoomba, NSW, Australia

Session 3:  EARLY MORNING FAUNA AND BIRD WALK Saturday 28th April, enjoy the early morning walk to see check what animals have moved around at night. Listen to the chorus of birds and find out what birds are making the calls. This is an outdoor event on a bush trail, walking over uneven ground and […]

Free

Turtle Habitat Islands Construction

Glenbrook Lagoon (beach) Glenbrook Road, Glenbrook, NSW, Australia

Get involved in a project to construct a habitat island for turtles in Glenbrook Lagoon. This joint project involves Bushcare, Council and the University of Western Sydney, and is funded by a small grant from the Premier’s Office. The turtle population Australia-wide is ageing and declining, with few young recruits, thanks to predation on eggs […]

Free
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