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The Willunga Environment Centre (WEC) has been operating in its current location since October 2005. The Centre is a non-profit organisation that aims to inform, educate and assist the local community in all matters regarding the environment by effectively facilitating access to official information, printed matter, training and contact details for relevant organisations. It is a centre in which the local community regularly seek information from; and is frequently utilised by community and industry alike to hold meetings, conferences and events on all things environmental.

Over the years we have held a number of great FREE workshops.

Some of the topics covered  included:  

  • Marine Parks
  • Snakes
  • Birdscaping the Environment
  • Climate Change
  • Organic Gardening
  • Grants Awareness Workshop

Just to name a few!

Centre’s Objectives

The WEC's main objective is to encourage and support the community to achieve environmental, social and economic sustainability in the Willunga Basin and surrounding areas.

To achieve this objective the WEC provides community groups and individual community members with research information, knowledge by way of articles, printed matter and general information. The Centre also facilitates access to training, contact names and organisations that can give advice and supply detailed information

The Centre also aims to educate the local community with regular guest speaker evenings and workshops. These events cover a diverse range of topics eg. Climate Change, Bushfire Ready, Native Animals and Land Management Practices.

The Centre has a wide range of resources available to all community members including:
  • CFS Maps
  • DVD and book library
  • Home Energy Audit Kit
  • Tool hire for seed and tree planting eg. Hamilton planters etc.
These can be accessed through our borrowing system.

The WEC can also be booked for group meetings and/or presentations and talks, accomodating  up to 30 people. If required, a data projector and screen are available to use in presentations. These facilities are all provided free of charge.


Project Officers

Wayne Lawrence

  

Wayne Lawrence operates an environmental consultancy business from the Willunga Environment Centre that specialises in environmental restoration, water-course rehabilitation and project management. Wayne is currently managing numerous properties ranging in size from 5ha to 100’s of ha. on the Willunga-Sellicks escarpment, as well as helping to secure funding to rehabilitate the numerous water-courses that flow from the escarpment.

Wayne secures the funding that is required to assist landholders in repairing some of the damage that has been caused to a number of properties in the area. This may be fencing off water-courses so that stock do not have unlimited access to the creek-lines, it maybe revegetating sections of properties to arrest erosion issues or extend remnant vegetation or it maybe the removal of woody weeds. Wayne brings extensive technical and local knowledge to the area having a degree in ecology gained from Flinders University and with his family living in the local area for a number of generations. Wayne is currently working with the Willunga Hillsface Landcare Group to provide project management for the Regreen the Range project.

 


 

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