We have a range of courses and events throughout the year to help you learn and share new nature skills, meet like-minded people and have a lot of fun. From professional development for educators to training for volunteers, activities for families and seminars to learn more about what we do.
We support schools across metro SA to teach about and connect to the natural world, lead informed action on sustainability, and enable active citizens.
We're excited to host this one-day professional development forum for school and preschool educators to share your successes and challenges of educating for sustainability. The theme sustainability in the classroom and beyond focuses on practical actions and rich learning opportunities for your classroom, school and preschool.
You will learn from other educators leading interactive workshops and presentations and meet with like-minded professionals who are passionate about sustainability, youth leadership, community collaboration and real-world learning.
Adelaide Botanic Highschool is the perfect place for our forum. It's the first truly vertical school in SA, designed with smart, environmentally friendly building principles.
Cost
$130pp full-price
$80pp student or low income (limited tickets)
No cost for First Nations People, as part of our commitment to equity in access.
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea are included.
Accessibility: We want the event to be accessible. Please let us know if there's anything specific you need to participate.
Getting there: there are many public transport options to the school, and bicycle storage is available onsite. Nearby parking options include $12 flat-rate parking in Wilson Carpark at Lot Fourteen (enter off Frome Road), or metered parking on Frome Road (zoo end), Victoria Drive, or Plane Tree Drive.
Our monthly online seminar series gives you a chance to hear about our key projects to cool, green and wild metropolitan Adelaide. There are great discussions on the approaches to our work too, like biodiversity-sensitive urban design (BSUD), water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) and the Urban Greening Strategy. You can learn a lot, ask questions and find out how you can help.
Tune into the next event below and listen back to past talks from our seminar series on YouTube.
Coming up next:
Frogs of Adelaide
Thursday 26 September, 4pm to 5pm (online)
Frogs are a crucial part of our local ecosystems. They're food for other animals, they eat insects providing natural pest control, and they're sensitive to pollution, which means changes in their population is a good indicator of how their environment is going. Get to know the frogs you'll find in Adelaide, and how you can help them through our citizen science project FrogWatch SA, which recently won the SA Citizen Science Award!
Blue carbon ecosystems—like seagrass meadows, mangroves, and salt marshes—are some of the most efficient natural carbon sinks on the planet. Dr Sophie Russell and Dr. Emily Leyden will introduce the concept of blue carbon and explain how these coastal environments efficiently capture and store carbon, making them key players in global climate mitigation efforts.
Learn about local examples, including seagrass restoration in Gulf St Vincent, the blue carbon futures program and the Dry Creek salt fields and recovery efforts in Port River.