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  • Plastic Free July Picnic with SO SHIRE – July 25

    Cricket Pitch Park, Kurnell Cricket Pitch Park, Kurnell, NSW, Australia

    Join us at Kurnell for a Plastic Free Picnic and community conversation around plastic-free solutions!
    We will have an informal Q+A with the SO Shire team, including marine scientist and founder, Sarah-Jo Lobwein. We are organising raffle tickets in collaboration with local sustainable businesses too!
    Bring your family, friends or colleagues along because together we can make a real difference in the fight to reduce single-use plastic and plastic pollution.

  • Dean Kelly

    Sutherland Shire Environment Centre AGM 2021

    Our guest speaker this year is Dean Kelly, proud Aboriginal man and a passionate voice for nature. He’s a Cultural Leader of the La Perouse community and works across Sydney with the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage and NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service as an Indigenous Community Liaison Officer. Dean believes nature is the greatest teacher and that there are many things we can learn from our environment. We're honoured to have Dean speaking at this year’s AGM, and you are welcome to join us via zoom on 9 September.

  • Shorebirds of Southern Sydney

    Wednesday 13 October, 7pm - Join us for an evening webinar to learn about the migratory shorebirds of Southern Sydney. At this time of year migratory shorebirds can be seen in Southern Sydney at the Towra Point Nature Reserve Ramsar site, as well as in areas along the Georges River and Port Hacking. These birds have travelled thousands of kilometres, across multiple continents, over many days to reach our local shores. They are incredible birds with astounding stories of survival against the odds. These birds are currently feeding and resting in our beautiful local estuaries.

    Migratory shorebird experts Debbie Andrew and Julie Keating will talk to us about the shorebird journeys and how we can all help protect them.

    Free

  • Port Hacking Shorebirds

    Wednesday 24 November, 7:15pm, another shorebirds presentation, an opportunity to learn more about their habits and behaviour.
    The speakers are Elisabeth Dark and Cathy Goswell from Birdlife Southern NSW, and the presentation is hosted by the National Parks Association Southern Sydney Branch.
    Cathy will draw on her extensive experience to talk about Port Hacking bird species and their behaviours, and Elisabeth will talk about the habits, challenges and benefit to the ecosystem of migratory birds such as the Eastern Curlew. Join the zoom meeting at 7:15pm for a 7:30pm start.

    Free

  • (SOLD OUT) Invisible Connections Tour: Shorebirds of Boat Harbour

    Boat Harbour, Kurnell, New South Wales, Australia Boat Harbour, Kurnell, nsw, Australia

    (SOLD OUT) Friday 18 February, 9:30am.
    The amazing journeys which take migratory shorebirds from one end of the earth to the other and back every year is one of nature’s greatest stories. This talk and tour is all about shorebirds, their migration, phenotypic change, feeding ecology and how they bring together the ecologies of the Earth.

    $5.00

  • (SOLD OUT) Little Brown Birds Tour: Royal National Park

    Royal National Park, NSW

    (SOLD OUT) Friday 15 April, 7:15am.
    Often overlooked or a source of confusion for bird watchers, the tiny insectivorous birds of the thornbill, gerygone, scrubwren, heathwren and fairy-wren clades are major players in forest, heath and woodland ecologies. Learn about the ecology of and identification of these birds in the beautiful Royal National Park.

    $5.00

  • 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.

    $10

  • Song and Dance Tour: Lyrebird breeding season in the Royal National Park

    Royal National Park, NSW

    Friday 3 June, 7:15am.
    This tour celebrates Lyrebird breeding season and the amazing forces of sexual selection. The tour begins with a talk on lyrebirds, their song, dance, ecology and biology. This is an opportunity see the Superb Lyrebird at its finest and witness some of the most iconic scenes in the world of nature.

    $5.00

  • Too Precious To Lose

    Hurstville Museum and Gallery

    From now until 19 June Oatley Flora and Fauna Conservation Society would like to share with you photos 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.
    The exhibition is free and all are welcome.

    Free

  • Envoy Shark Cull, the documentary

    Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre 782 Kingsway, Gymea, NSW, Australia

    Off the beautiful beaches, and amongst breathtaking coral reefs of Australia lurks a deadly and indiscriminate killer.
    Its thirst for blood kills 1000s each and every year. It lies in wait day after day for innocent victims to swim right into its mouth. It’s not sharks.

    It’s the Government Shark Control Program.

    Please join us at Hazelhurst Gallery at Gymea on Saturday, 10 September to watch this important documentary about why we need deep water mesh shark nets in NSW removed.

    The screening is free and all are welcome.

  • Birds and the Bees Tour: Curra Moors, Royal National Park

    Royal National Park, NSW

    Friday 16 September, 7:15am.
    Explore the birds of our coastal heath amid one of the finest flowering events on Earth. The beauty and diversity of early spring flowers on Curra Moors is intoxicating. This walk will begin through a dry sclerophyll ridge-top woodland with heathy understorey before entering the vast expanse of complex heath on Curra Moors in the Royal National Park. Our target birds are Southern Emu-wren, Chestnut-rumped Heathwren, Variegated Fairy-wren, Beautiful Firetail and Tawny-crowned Honeyeater. On the way we’ll meet many other favourites and make new friends too!

    $5.00

  • Coal mining, the impacts: Sutherland Shire Environment Centre AGM 2022

    Sutherland Seniors Centre 749 Old Princes Highway, Sutherland, NSW, Australia

    We're delighted to announce that Dr Ian Wright will be our guest speaker at this year's Sutherland Shire Environment Centre AGM. Ian is a lecturer at Western Sydney University, and a recognised expert in the field of freshwater ecology, water quality, water policy and the science and management of water pollution. He has a long-standing research interest in the impact of coal mining activities on streams and rivers.

    Dr Wright was also one of the team who was allowed to visit Woronora Reservoir in 2019, and he saw first hand the damage from the mining operation there.

    After Ian's talk there'll be a screening of the 25min documentary Mining in the Blue Mountains, followed by a Q&A.

  • Festival of the fairy-wren Tour: Greenhills Reserve

    Greenhills Reserve North end of Don Lucas Reserve, Cronulla, NSW, Australia

    Friday 7 October, 7:15am.
    The dune ecology of Greenhills Reserve is one of the great environmental gems of Cronulla. Explore and be astounded by the fascinating bird life, plants and reptiles which thrive in this scrubby heath right on our doorstep.

    $5.00

  • A Rainforest Calendar Tour: Royal National Park

    Royal National Park, NSW

    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.

    $5.00

  • Protecting Our Drinking Water – Submission Writing Workshop

    Cronulla Central Croydon Street, Cronulla, NSW, Australia

    Peabody are seeking to extend their mining operations underneath the Woronora Reservoir, our drinking water supply, and we need your help to fight it.  Join us at Cronulla Central on the 23rd August from 10am-12pm to learn about the devastating impacts of mining under our water catchment and what we...

    Free