Matt Endacott is a Coastal Conservation Officer with Green Adelaide and hosted by Holdfast Bay Council. Matt will discuss his role and butterfly conservation his team is undertaking along the coast - including recovery programs for the Yellowish Sedge Skipper and Bitter Bush Blue butterflies. Matt Endacott has over 15 years' of experience restoring and […]

5th Sept. 6.30pm BCSA AGM The future is very exciting. However we need a team to manage it.  Please, we need committed members to help run this organisation.  Click here and read pages 4-5 on our August newsletter for more details. 7.00pm Public Talk by Dr Stefan Caddy-Retalic:  It is time to protect our trees. […]

After a brief introduction to the life cycle of the European honeybee, beekeeper Rossi von der Borch from the Bee Society of South Australia will provide a glimpse into the collective decision-making processes that underpin every aspect of life in a honeybee colony and will consider a range of opinions on the place of the […]

Join us at the Park Lands Biofair in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) on Sunday October 8, from 10 am to 3 pm. Celebrate our incredible biodiversity right here in the Adelaide's Park Lands, and get up close and personal with our diverse natural world in the woodland area south of the new wetland! […]

Enjoy a short, mainly flat walk to the habitat of small sub populations of nationally endangered southern brown bandicoots (Isoodon obesulus). Since 2021, experts, volunteers and community organisations have been working to improve this habitat. It shows how to manage introduced plants that are providing protection and food for bandicoots, blackberry in particular,  while also […]

Cost: $20 per person. Note: Soft drinks provided. If you want alcohol, please B.Y.O. (we have a Short Term Liquor licence for this event). Closing Date (for catering purposes): Friday 3rd November, 2023. Location: PLYMPTON COMMUNITY CENTRE Long Street PLYMPTON. Book Tickets below... Program 7.00pm - welcome 7.15pm - buffet style meal 7.45pm - presentation […]

Yundi Nature Conservancy is between Willunga and Mount Compass, off the Victor Harbor Road It is a private protected area which includes two Heritage Agreement areas: a Fleurieu Peninsula Swamp (critically endangered plant community under the EPBC Act) a southern Mount Lofty Ranges stringy bark woodland The swamp is quite complex – with stick insects, […]

Presented by member Mike Moore Mike will talk about the 2022 publication by Beaver and Braby focused on Ogyris taxonomy.  This work includes the description of a number of new species and a reorganisation of existing taxa.  The research includes the study of a number of Australia’s most iconic Ogyris species.  Mike will discuss a […]

Public Information Session about the Chequered Copper (Lucia limbaria) is CANCELLED owing to weather forecast.  There will be other such opportunities in the future.  

Presented by B.C.S.A. member Jan Forrest OAM The digital age has transformed photography and taking pictures now is as simple as pulling a phone out of your pocket. The medium may have changed, however the principles of taking a good photo have not. Bring your camera and phone to experiment, as we look at the […]