2025 AGM – Speaker topic: Creating the Yule Brook Regional Park

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.  Elections will be held for all Committee positions for 2025. Contact Christine ([email protected] ) or Sue ([email protected] ) to chat about being part of the UBC Committee.

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.

You can find the nomination forms here.  https://www.bushlandperth.org.au/about/

Note that nominations must be endorsed by a Member Group and supported by a second Member Group. Email us at [email protected] if you would like assistance with the forms.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE 11 FEBRUARY 2024.

NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGES TO UBC RULES

We will be proposing some changes to our Rules at the Annual General Meeting.  They will be available on this page on or before 11 February 2025.  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.