Biodiversity

Flora and Fauna

Please select one of the following links for more information:

• Friends of the Cooks River Valley Garden
  A monthly working group of volunteers that carry out planting, weeding and mulching for the recently-established native flora garden at Tempe Reserve.
   
• Friends of Camperdown Cemetery
  Volunteer group that meets monthly to maintain a patch of threatened native bushland near St Stephen's Church in Newtown, adjacent to Camperdown Memorial Rest Park.
   
• 2007 Fauna Study
  Findings from a fauna study around several sites in the Marrickville local government area, along with the recommendations presented to Council as a result of the study.
   
• Marrickville Landcare Group
  A group of volunteers that run monthly working-bees to plant locally-occurring native flora at three key project sites in the Marrickville LGA.
   
• Marrickville Community Nursery
  Council's community nursery, aiming to promote biodiversity of the local area through growing and selling plants native to the Lower Cooks River Valley.
   
• National Tree Day
  An annual Australia-wide initiative supported by Marrickville Council.