Get Wild About Wetlands – Educational Session

Join us for a fun evening to learn and discuss the significance of wetlands in maintaining healthy waterways, as well as insights into monitoring their condition and how you can participate in upcoming local conservation projects.

*The term ‘wetlands’ encompasses a vast range of water-based areas including swamps, marshes, billabongs, lakes, salt marshes, mudflats, mangroves, coral reefs, fens and peatlands.

We are excited to showcase Positive Change for Marine Life’s upcoming citizen science opportunities designed to evaluate the condition of local wetlands in collaboration with partners from EarthWatch, MangroveWatch Australia and NSW Department of Planning and Environment.

During the evening we will showcase our upcoming citizen science projects, provide information on how to get involved and discuss the importance of protecting coastal wetlands.

You will learn to love wetlands, why they’re crucial to combatting climate change and what we can do as a community to safeguard them.

By empowering local stewardship we hope to ensure that community voices are a central part of wetland conservation and management.

Schedule

Doors open 5.30pm: Time to chat and enjoy a selection of complimentary locally sourced drinks and nibbles!

Wetland Talks: 6.00 pm -7.30 pm
Event Close: 8.00 pm

Acknowledgements

The project is being delivered through the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s Flood Recovery Program for Water Quality Monitoring, in partnership with the NSW Department of Planning and Environment. The Program is jointly funded by the Australian and NSW Governments under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements.

We would like to Acknowledge the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation who are the Traditional Custodians of this land which we live, work, and stand on. Arakwal People retain a strong connection to Country; actively caring for flora and fauna and land and waters. We ask that you respect and help look after Country and Culture.

We also acknowledge and pay our respect to Elders both past and present, and the extended Aboriginal community.

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