You’ve chosen your Bush bud – now it’s time to learn all about them!  Join us for the first Bush Buds walk – the theme of this walk is Woodlands, and will give you the opportunity to learn more about the habitat of the following Bush Buds: Gang-gang Cockatoo Pink tailed worm lizard Regent honeyeater […]

You’ve chosen your Bush bud - now it’s time to learn all about them!  Join us and ACF Community Canberra for a walk in the Territory’s high country and get the opportunity to learn more about the habitat of the following Bush Buds: Corroboree Frog Alpine Tree Frog Brush tailed rock wallaby   Where? The walk […]

The Conservation Council’s Biodiversity Working Group and Friends of Grasslands have co-authored a paper that proposes part of the solution to protecting and enhancing the ACT’s remaining natural places: The Biodiversity Network.  The world is suffering through a mass extinction event. Globally, nature is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate, with extinction rates being higher […]

Join us for dinner to celebrate World Environment Day 2023 on June 3 at Albert Hall.   First held in 1973, World Environment Day has grown into a global platform for raising environmental awareness and spurring environmental action. This year, we are honoured to welcome Richard Swain as our guest speaker.

Join us for a community catch-up on the evening of the 20 June to learn about the campaign’s next steps, while hanging out with friends, and painting some banners. Over 99% of natural temperate grasslands have been destroyed since colonisation. This has pushed species like the Golden Sun Moth, Perunga Grasshopper, and Striped Legless Lizard […]

You’ve chosen your Bush bud - now it’s time to learn all about them!  Join us for a Bush Buds walk - the theme of this walk is River, and will give you the opportunity to learn more about the habitat of the following Bush Buds:  Macquarie Perch Murray River Cod Two-spined blackfish Murray River […]

Canberra is home to incredible places and wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. But nature in Canberra and Australia is in trouble. The wildlife and the places we love are under threat from a warming climate, deforestation, over development, and roads and infrastructure fragmenting habitats. This Threatened Species Day let’s stand up for nature by […]

Canberra is home to incredible places and wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.  But nature in Australia and our region is declining - under pressure from a warming climate, roads and infrastructure fragmenting habitats, deforestation and exploitation.  Right here our woodlands, grasslands and habitat for wildlife are facing potential destruction as the ACT Government has […]

You’ve chosen your Bush bud - now it’s time to learn all about them!  Join us for a Bush Buds walk - the theme of this walk is Grassland, and it will give you the opportunity to learn more about the habitat of the following Bush Buds:  Grassland earless dragon Striped Legless lizard Golden Sun […]

Join us in celebrating the hard work and achievements of the environment community over the past year with the ACT Environment Awards 2023