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Writing for the Environment

Sutherland Shire Environment Centre holds an annual writing prize to honour our founder, Bob Walshe, OAM.

The Environment Centre would not exist without Bob. And he believed writing was an important tool in the work of building a sustainable world.

Entries are open till Friday, 17 June 2022.

Our amazing Sutherland Shire Shorebirds

Will they make it?

First National Park

The Royal National Park is not only a beautiful natural area, it has spectacular scenery, is home to a diverse range of flora and fauna, and extraordinary geological features.

The ecological values and unique history of the Royal merit UNESCO World Heritage Listing.

Coal mining underneath Woronora Reservoir - our drinking water

10,700 people signed our hard copy petition asking the NSW government to stop this mining.

Sunny Shire

Sunny Shire provide information about solar energy, batteries, efficiency, electric vehicles and more.

The Sutherland to Cronulla Active Transport link

Help us stop the SCATL backpeddle!

The Sutherland Shire deserves a decent, safe bike pathway too!

SO Shire & Plastic Free Sutherland Shire

Working to protect and enhance the natural environment across the Shire, including our beautiful waterways and beaches. Raising public awareness, encouraging environmentally sustainable businesses, conducting beach cleanups and pollution audits.

Our Campaigns

Events

Bundeena Maianbar Sustainability Expo

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!

SO Shire & Boomerang Bags Plastic bag ban celebration

For the diary – a lovely event to celebrate the new legislation to ban some single use plastics and plastic bags!

Please join help us celebrate and recognise the work of the people involved in the Boomerang Bags initiative. Among other activities there will be a sew your own Boomerang bag workshop and demonstration. All welcome!

1 June, 6-8pm, at Studio Wildfire at Engadine.

Too Precious To Lose

Oatley Flora and Fauna Conservation Society would like to share with you images of the biodiversity that makes our bushland so rich and special – the beautiful, unusual and often overlooked plants and animals that live around the Georges River.

About Sutherland Shire Environment Centre

We are an independent, not-for-profit, community organisation actively involved in a wide range of projects aimed at maintaining the natural beauty and character of our Shire, and surrounding waterways and parks. For a small organisation we do a lot, but our Centre is run by volunteers. Sutherland Shire would not have an environment centre, and none of our campaigns or advocacy would be possible without the commitment and care of members of the community.

One current focus includes advocating for koala and wildlife corridors around the Shire. Another campaign seeks to protect our water supply from the coal mining taking place directly underneath Woronora Reservoir: 10,700 people signed our recent petition calling for the mining to be stopped.
Our members from the SO Shire group aim to halt pollution from plastic and microplastics washing up around our beaches and waterways.

Our Sunny Shire and Plastic Free Sutherland Shire groups can provide general advice about solar energy, batteries, and sustainable practices. We support environmental education programs, and put in a range of submissions about issues of environmental concern.

If you are interested in finding out more, or helping, please get in touch!

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Land, the Dharawal people, who have cared and continue to care for country. We recognise that Aboriginal Sovereignty has never been ceded. It is our goal to build restorative relations between peoples, and we pay our respect to their elders past, present, and emerging.