We also work closely with local volunteers GreenTeach, and with their help can provide educational events with the use of the Chris Gibbs educational trailer, passing on our love for nature through the teaching of the environmental values of our catchment.

We held a National Science Week event in 2019 alongside the Dolphin Discovery Centre, for four different classes from the Bunbury community. The school groups ranged in age from year 3s right up to year 10s. Students were exposed to a range of activities, from fish dissections to display of macroinvertebrates.

As part of our threatened species project, we regularly hold possum night stalks in a range of different local reserves. These are guided by an LCC project officer alongside a professional zoologist and have been excellent fun with many sightings of both the western ringtail possum and the brush tail possum. Participants also learn about monitoring and survey techniques and are able to contribute to some important citizen science along the way. 

This same project has also enabled the LCC to hold nesting box building workshops with the help of the Leschenault Men’s Shed and the Leschenault Community Nursery. Our project officers facilitate the building, provide the materials and advice on the installation procedure for your own backyard.

Through our Kingston Foreshore Restoration project, we have facilitated school group and community planting days and are encouraging the formation of a community led ‘Friends of Group’. If you are interested in organising a local volunteer group for a reserve in your area, but don’t know where to start, get in touch as we would love to help. We have facilitated a water bug monitoring training day which has proven very beneficial for members of both the Friends of Big Swamp group as well as the Brunswick River Restoration Action Group.

Recently the LCC held a series of informative evenings targeting local farmers followed by a BBQ to build community, through the Regional Estuaries Initiative. These evenings covered information on phosphorus build up in soils, and the benefits of soil testing, the importance of riparian vegetation on waterways and how to attract beneficial pollinators to your patch.

If you are an educator or facilitator and would like the LCC to be involved in your educational event please get in touch by emailing us here.