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2025 AGM – Speaker topic: Creating the Yule Brook Regional Park
Tuesday 4 March from 18:00 to 20:00
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2025
Come along to UBC’s Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 4 March 2025 from 6:00 pm for a 6:30 pm start at City West Lotteries House. The Agenda and its attachments are available here. The Chairperson’s Report is available here. Nominations for all but one committee position were received by close of nominations. You can find that information in the Agenda. We will call for interest in the role of Secretary at the AGM.
Join us in 2025 and help us advocate for change to protect our precious urban natural vegetation and the species that rely on that habitat.
NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO UBC RULES
We have proposed some changes to our Rules at the Annual General Meeting. They will be available now available here (overview) and in full here. They are also attached to the Agenda. The main reason for these changes is that our Deductible Gift Recipiency status is now subject to the Rules of the Australian Tax Office. The other proposed changes will increase responsiveness and reduce the administrative burden on a wholly volunteer run organisation.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER AGM 2025: DANIEL JAN MARTIN – CREATING THE YULE BROOK REGIONAL PARK
This presentation launches UBC’s 2025 campaigning for the creation of the Yule Brook Regional Park.
Daniel will present a vision for the Yule Brook Regional Park – from Lesmurdie Falls, along the Yule Brook beside the Greater Brixton Street Wetlands and into the Canning River. UBC and The Beeliar Group – Professors for Environmental Responsibility (and many others) see the creation of this regional park as the single most effective way of protection the extraordinary biodiversity of the Brixton Street Wetlands and adjacent landforms. Daniel has been instrumental in developing the mapping that supports the Yule Brook Regional Park. You can read more in A Jewel in the Crown of a global biodiversity hotspot edited by Hans Lambers
Achieving success will require sustained advocacy. This area of the Swan Coastal Plain is currently subject to a number of development proposals that all have the potential for environmental harm to the GBSW through changes to hydrology that impact further than the development lines drawn on the map.
Daniel Jan Martin is an environmental planner and designer working in south west Australia on Noongar Country. He is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at The University of Western Australia. He also co-leads the collaborative practice Super Natural. His work explores ways of mapping and designing with our water systems and ecosystems — with expertise across geospatial analysis, sustainability and urban design. A passion for environmental communication drives his work — sharing, translating and advocating.
You might know his mapping work in the ‘Forest Atlas’ which helped shape many of our submissions to the Forest Management Plan, or his more recent work for Save Beeliar Wetlands and the Cockburn Community Wildlife Corridor where he demonstrated how the Roe 9 lands could optimise public open space whilst meeting the WA government’s desire for more housing!
Event information
We look forward to welcoming you to our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 4th March. Please let us know that you are coming along. You can either RSVP at the bottom of this page (keep scrolling) or else email [email protected]. If you can’t make it to West Perth, you can join us online via Zoom. Please email [email protected] to request the Zoom link. You can join from 6:30 pm for the AGM or from 7 pm for the presentation.