On Saturday 25 June, between 10am – 3pm the Bundeena Maianbar Sustainability Expo will showcase how individuals and a local community are striving to live more sustainably and protect our beautiful natural environment. There will be talks, demonstrations, and hands-on activities on everything sustainable.
Quite a few Sutherland Shire Environment Centre members will be participating in this events, giving talks, and we’ll be having a stall there. We hope you can come along!
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One for the diary – 22 February – the National Parks Association Southern Sydney Branch will be hosting a free zoom meeting on conservation issues with Kane Durrant – respected reptile expert, snake catcher, and dedicated wildlife conservationist.
Kane will talk about his work as an operating partner with Turtle Rescues NSW. When dams are dewatered at development sites, with the animals left homeless, Kane and the Turtles Rescue team capture and release them into suitable habitats in the wild, taking in any injured animals that require care.
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Friday 18 November, 7:15am.
Deep dive into nature’s year, or the seasons of the rainforest. We’ll meet the beautiful and fascinating butterflies and birds which express the changing of the seasons in our local rainforests and ponder the relevance of the seasons on a calendar based on astronomical observations made by humans in Europe. This tour will be timed with the courtship of Satin Bowerbirds and nesting of the migratory Black-faced Monarch and sedentary Brown Gerygones, Yellow-throated Scrubwrens and Green Catbirds along with the fruiting of the forest and emergence of the beautiful male Wonder Brown butterflies.
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