WILDLIFE-FRIENDLY GARDENSSat 8 Sep, 10am - 1pm
Coastal Environment CentreLearn how to attract native species to your garden. Make a bee hotel or model a mini garden. There will be talks from local wildlife experts, native plant giveaways and advice on composting and worm farming. This is a family-friendly event with face painting for the kids. No bookings required.
SOLAR AND BATTERIES - IS NOW THE TIME TO BUY?Tue 18 Sep, 6.30 - 8pm
PCYC Northern Beaches With energy bills on the rise, it's never been a better time to look at producing your own clean and green energy at home. Find out how solar works and whether it is right for your household.
SPRING INTO CEC EVENTSThroughout September
North NarrabeenHead to the Coastal Environment Centre for family-friendly events to celebrate Biodiversity Month. We have a Native Bee Workshop, a Snake and Spider Awareness program and a number of walks and talks - a spotlight walk at Warriewood Wetlands, a walk through the mangroves and salt marsh at Careel Bay and a night walk at Manly Dam.
SCHOOLS TREE DAY To recognise National Tree Day, Council staff headed to Belrose Public School to work with students and help them regenerate their beautiful onsite bushland. Kindergarten and Year 6 students planted native species and found out more about local native animals, along with pest species found on the Northern Beaches.
KINMA BUSH REGENERATIONStudents from Kinma School are learning how to care for their local creek. 20 groups of four to five children managed to plant over 160 seedlings, as well as pulling out numerous non-native privet trees. The students seemed very interested in getting to know this new area and were keen to help maintain it going forward.
HOLLOWS FOR HOMESTree hollows are important habitat for many of our fauna. For some species, the lack of hollow-bearing trees across the landscape is a major factor in their on-going survival. The Hollows as Homes program is looking at the availability of hollows across Australia. They are seeking assistance from the community. Find out how you can help.
EASTERN BENTWING BATThis threatened microbat is smaller than your hand! Being nocturnal, they roost in caves, rock crevices, old mines, bridges and other man-made structures during the day. They feed on close to 10,000 mosquitoes, moths and other flying insects every night. When winter arrives they enter a period of 'torpor' i.e. a mini-hibernation as seasonal food declines.
Article and photo by Jayden Walsh
WONDROUS DEE WHY LAGOON Dee Why Lagoon is an important 77 hectare wildlife refuge made up of approximately 30 hectares of water, with 47 hectares above the high-tide mark. The combination of the lagoon and native bushland means it is a valuable conservation area for migratory birds and estuarine flora and fauna. It's a must-see for all walkers, nature lovers and bird watchers. Why not try the picturesque walk from the lagoon to Long
Reef Headland?
BANGLADESHI WATER WISEThe Coastal Environment Centre recently hosted a small group of engineers from the Bangladeshi Water Board. Council's coastal specialists took the visitors to view coastal management practices at Collaroy Beach. The study tour was organised by the Baxter Institute to show the engineers some of our current management strategies that could be applied to their local projects.
JAPANESE JAUNTJapanese exchange students from the Odawara District enjoyed a stunning headland walk after meeting our Mayor Michael Regan. They then headed to the Coastal Environment Centre to see the myriad of educative displays, including a virtual dive experience with turtles and dolphins.
U3A SAYS NO TO SINGLE USEMavis Bickerton from the University of the 3rd Age (U3A) worked with Council’s Waste Education Team to stop close to 100 polystyrene cups being used each week at their Newport Community Centre meetings. Council gifted them reusable mugs, with the group pleased to be preventing such a huge amount of waste. "Out with the old and in with the new," said the U3A team as they showed off their new mugs.
CHEMICAL CLEANOUTSat 1 & Sun 2 Sep, 9am - 3.30pm
Aquatic Drive, Frenchs Forest Now is the perfect time to clean out the garage and cupboards of your hazardous household chemicals and items in preparation for the EPA Chemical CleanOut. Items that can be dropped off include household cleaners, pesticides and herbicides, poisons, motor fuels, fluorescent globes, acids, smoke detectors, paints, gas bottles, fire extinguishers as well as car and household batteries
PERMACULTURE NORTHERN BEACHESWould you like to connect with a network of passionate and active people who care about 'big picture' issues? - then Permaculture Northern Beaches maybe for you. They are taking action at the local level through projects, education and advocacy. Please email them for more information.
Have your say on new marine park proposal People of the Northern Beaches… are you interested in the future of marine parks? The NSW Government is proposing a ‘Sydney Marine Park’, which would include a network of 25 distinct sites including the Northern Beaches’ very own Cabbage Tree Bay, North
Harbour, Long Reef, Narrabeen Head and Barrenjoey Head. For the Northern Beaches this would mean an expansion of our five existing marine parks and aquatic reserves, bringing with it a number of changes to the way the areas are used. Community information booths are being held across the Northern Beaches during September Find out more and make a submission to the NSW Government.
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