Nandi Chinna Award-winning Poet won the Premier’s 2022 Western Australian Writer’s Fellowship We are immensely proud to see someone closely associated with the Centre win an incredible honour. At the 2021 WA Premier’s Book Awards held on 17th June at…
Come Get Wild About WetlandsMakuru Season 2022
Get Wild About Wetlands July Holiday Program Report Last July, the Centre saw a host of activities and engagements with the Get Wild About Wetlands (GWAW) school holiday program underway. These programs are always exciting and fun, but, above all,…
Flora in Focus – Bookleaf Mallee
Gorgeous gums Bookleaf Mallee Eucalyptus krueseana, commonly known as Bookleaf Mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to inland Western Australia. It has a crown of sessile, juvenile leaves, glaucous flower buds, creamy yellow flowers, and smooth bark that is…
Get Wild About Wetlands
Get Wild About Wetlands New and exciting programs coming to these July holidays in 2022. BOOK NOW Nature Storytime Trek We’ll be reading stories from the Cockburn Libraries featuring WA animals and then go for a trek in the bushlands…
The Poet-in-Residence ProgramThe Wetlands Centre welcomes Lakshmi, our resident poet!
It gives us great pleasure to welcome our new Poet-in-Residence, Lakshmi Kanchi, at the Wetlands Centre Cockburn! Lakshmi Kanchi, pen name SoulReserve, is an emerging Western Australian poet of Indian descent. Her poetry explores love and its tumultuousness, fantasy and…
News Buzz
News Buzz Makuru Season (June – July 2022) Turtle Watch Update We celebrated the safe arrival of the southwestern snake-necked turtle hatchlings from eggs that had been collected at Walliabup (Bibra Lake) during the 2021/22 nesting season. The hatchlings are…
Volunteer With Us
At The Wetlands Centre, we are a small community-based organisation at heart, and our volunteers are a big part of who we are and what we do. Our volunteers complete our team and make it a family. We are proud…
Come Get Wild About WetlandsDjeran Season 2022
Get Wild About Wetlands these April Holidays This April, the Centre saw a host of activities and engagements with the Get Wild About Wetlands (GWAW) school holiday program underway. These programs are always exciting and fun. But, above all, they…
Foray Into The Fascinating World of Wetland Fungi
It is sometimes a little too easy not to notice these beautiful and delicate clusters and rings of fungi growing along pathways and under lush shrubs and trees, seemingly in a world of their own. But with a bit of…
Parrot Bush
Call me Parrot Bush Parrot Bush (Banksia sessilis) is a prickly upright shrub or small tree that typically grows from five to eight metres in height. It occurs naturally in the southwest of Western Australia from Kalbarri in the north,…