Latest Past Events

Returning Platypus to the Torrens: Turning a Dream into Reality

Plympton Community Centre 34 Long Street, Plympton

Presented by Professor Chris Daniels Platypus were last recorded in the River Torrens /Karrawirra Parri in the 1880s Their extinction correlated with the destruction of the Torrens. However, since the 1970s and particularly over the past 2 decades, the Torrens has been rejuvenated. Could we now bring back the platypus? If so how? This talk […]

Breakout Creek Transformed!

Plympton Community Centre 34 Long Street, Plympton

Presented by Sam Philips, Senior Water Projects Engineer with Green Adelaide, Department for Environment and Water. Breakout Creek / Purruna Parri (‘River of Life’) is the last three kilometres or so of River Torrens / Karrawirra Parri. It’s an artificial channel dug in the 1930s to help manage flooding of the city and the western […]

BCSA AGM and Talk about Museum Collections

Plympton Community Centre 34 Long Street, Plympton

2024 Annual general meeting agenda Please nominate yourself or someone else to become a committee member for 2024/25. Contact a committee member to discuss how you might fit in. 2024 AGM nomination form The Zoom link:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85418051930?pwd=PqnfQrkAJcF5fG4jB8JvmDh8DgdLTV.1  TALK: Museum Collections and the Most Important Question in Zoology Given present proposals to diminish the role of […]