Picnic for Nature, three years in!
69 local community groups came together to organise 33 picnics across NSW last weekend. This is phenomenal. It was great to see many groups working together to host joint picnics. Each picnic had its own unique flavour. From a jazz festival on the beach, platypus spotting in the New England, the grande finale of the Yila Healing Trail in the Shoalhaven, kayaking on Sydney Harbour, walking with birds on farms at Eurimbla, making insects and bird boxes to celebrate 40 years since Tomaree National park was gazetted and so many more.
We at the NCC believe that community events are critically important in our efforts to build a strong, inclusive, and passionate environmental NSW. Nature lovers from across NSW gathered in appreciation of our precious environments last weekend. Thank you to all the Picnic for Nature hosts and co-hosts who champion the natural environment, our voice for nature is stronger because of you.
If you would like to tell us about your Picnic for Nature please email [email protected] who looks forward to hearing from you.
Here are the 65 groups – amazing when I counted them all up!
1. Yila Healing Trail. Event partners –
2. Manyana Matters,
3. Berry Landcare,
4. Bushcare Shoalhaven,
5. Five Villages Community Garden,
6. Growing together South Coast,
7. Milton Rural Landscape Nursery,
8. National Parks Association (Milton branch),
9. Repower Shoalhaven,
10. Ulladulla Wildflower Reserve and many others. https://yilahealingtrail.au/experience-partners/
11. Orange - ECCO Orange,
12. Orange Field Naturalists and Conservation Society,
13. Central West Environement Council and
14. Condobolas Conservation Alliance
15. Albury - Earth Canvas ,
16. ACF and other groups,
17. Nature needs us now,
18. Regenerative farms
19. Healthy Rivers Dubbo
20. Transition Dubbo
21. River Repair Bus
22. Dubbo Rivercare
23. Dubbo Field Naturalist
24. Healthy Rivers Dubbo
25. Broken Hill Landcare
26. Tubbamurra - Guya Landcare Network and the
27. Ben Lomond Group
28. Wagga - Murrumbidgee Field Naturalists Inc.
29. Willoughby - WEPA, with
30. Tree Veneration Society
31. Castle Hill - Hills Shire Council and
32. Cattai Hills Environment Network (CHEN)
33. Valentine Area Sustainable Neighbourhood Group.
34. Tabiea group, with
35. Sydney Knitting Nanas
36. Nimbin Environment Centre Inc.
37. Rising Tide - Opera House
38. Gosford - CEN - Central coast Community Env Network
39. Jiggi School of arts
40. Armidale - New England Rikali and Platypus Group (NERP), supported by
41. NPA Armidale and
42. Australian Platypus Conservancy
43. Parramatta Climate Action Network (ParraCAN)
44. Port Stephens - EcoNetwork Port Stephens,
45. NPA (Hunter Branch),
46. NPWS,
47. Friends of Tomaree National Park
48. Lithgow Environment Group
49. Kiama - Illawarra Landcare
50. Maitland - Save Walka Reserve Community Alliance Inc
51. Gladstone - Save our Macleay River
52. Toronto Uniting Church
53. Pennant Hills - Growing food for
54. Wildlife and WIRES
55. Naremburn - Flat Rock Gully - Growing food for Wildlife and
56. WIRES
57. Lane Cove - Lane Cove Sustainability,
58. Lane Cove Bushland and Conservation Society and the
59. Lane Cove Collective
60. Mudgee District Environment Group
61. Bathurst Community Climate Action Network
62. Sydney Park - Sydney nature journal club
63. West Chatswood - Forest Voice and
64. Ryde Environment Group
65. Riverview - Lane Cove Council
66. Manly - Northern Beaches Envirolink/
67. Northern Beaches Bushland Guardians
68. Willoughby - WEPA, with
69. Tree Veneration Society
Images above: Broken Hill Picnic for Nature