Environmental Events

Every quarter we screen a FREE environmentally themed film for our community at the Empire Cinema. Have a look at the project page here:Earth Flix: Cinema 4 Change | Wingecarribee Shire Council

In 2024 we ran our first forum style event with this year's focus being the energy sector. Everything from the energy market, including our local grid and a broader overview of Australia's energy future, in addition to covering what you can do in your home, like energy efficient practices. See the project page here:Southern Highlands Future Forum - Your Energy Future | Wingecarribee Shire Council

In 2020, Council is partnered with the NSW Government’s Saving our Species program to deliver the Walk See Play initiative. This self-directed initiative asked participants to keep an eye out for and photograph biodiversity tracks, traces and habitat features while they walked along trails in bushland reserves and national parks.

Sat 8 & Sun 9 September 2020

This event was to help us gain a better understanding of the local glossy black-cockatoo population by heading out for a weekend of bird watching! By surveying for glossies across the landscape within a set timeframe, we can get an accurate measure of the local population. We collected a snapshot of the glossy black-cockatoo population by heading out on your private property or local bushland reserve anywhere between Bullio and Bungonia.

In 2019, Saving our Species scientists organised a Glossy Black Cockatoo count. This event asked citizen scientists to survey for Glossy black cockatoos, with a focus on the Great Western Wildlife Corridor. The survey assisted the scientists with getting a better understanding about Glossy black cockatoo populations within the Southern Highlands.

The Southern Highlands has the largest koala population in southern NSW, with over 3000 koalas calling the region home.

Saturday 9 September 2020

To celebrate Threatened Species Day, the Fitzroy Falls Visitor Centre hosted a presentation by Joe Stammers from the Southern Highlands Koala Conservation Project, who discussed how we can all work together to ensure there is a healthy and breeding koala population in the region for many years to come.

To celebrate Threatened Species Day in 2018, Council staff hosted a presentation about koalas and the Southern Highlands Conservation Project. 

Friday April 7 2020

Southern Highlanders were invited to a guided walk through Penrose State Forest. We joined staff from the Office of Environment and Heritage and Penrose Swamp Conservation Group as we looked out for some of the rare plants and animals that call it home.

In 2019, Council organised a screening of the film 2040 to a sell-out audience at the Empire Cinema in Bowral. The film was followed by a Q&A forum with a group of local panellists. 

About 2040

2040 is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW!

The 2040 journey began with award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film). Motivated by concerns about the planet his 4-year-old daughter would inherit, Damon embarked on a global journey to meet innovators and changemakers in the areas of economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, education and sustainability. Drawing on their expertise, he sought to identify the best solutions, available to us now, that would help improve the health of our planet and the societies that operate within it. From marine permaculture to decentralised renewable energy projects, he discovered that people all over the world are taking matters into their own hands.

This journey is the central premise for the documentary ‘2040’, a story of hope that looks at the very real possibility that humanity could reverse global warming and improve the lives of every living thing in the process. It is a positive vision of what ‘could be’, instead of the dystopian future we are so often presented.

Further Information

For more information visit: whatsyour2040.com