“Celebrating World Wetlands Day”
Join us at our newly renovated and extended facility for
The 19th Annual Western Australian Wetlands Conference
that will be held from Wednesday, 1st February to Friday, 3rd February 2023at The Wetlands Centre Cockburn, 184 Hope Road, Bibra Lake, Western Australia 6163
Early Bird Registration Portal
Click the link to register your participation.
Call for Registrations
The Wetlands Centre Cockburn invites you to attend its 19th Annual Western Australian Wetlands Conference. We are pleased to welcome you to the state-of-the-art Cockburn Wetlands Precinct and to our brand new renovated and extended facility, The Wetlands Centre, for a three-day conference on the 1st, 2nd & 3rd of February 2023. This conference commemorates World Wetlands Day: The anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands in the Iranian city of Ramsar on 2nd February 1971. Our conference typically draws over 200 attendees from WA and surrounding states and territories from all streams of wetlands linked work and interests. We will have keynote addresses, expert presentations, sharing of case studies and research, plenary discussions, informal tours and plenty of networking opportunities. Early Bird Registrations are now open.
Objectives of our conference
“To increase knowledge, awareness, understanding and commitment to the conservation, interpretation and management of Wetlands.”
“And, to provide an annual networking forum for organisations and individuals involved in the above”.
Conference Themes
The overarching conference theme follows the Ramsar theme for 2023 of ‘Wetland Restoration’. The three day conference is divided into 6 half-days, which are set to feature the following themes – Leadership, Reconciliation & Truth-Telling, Sustainability, Partnerships, Humanities and Workshops.
01.
Leadership
To increase the knowledge, awareness, understanding, participation, engagement, and commitment to the conservation of wetlands.
02.
Reconciliation
To initiate, support, and sustain a proactive partnership with traditional custodians for the conservation of wetlands.
03.
Sustainability
To develop and deliver standards, processes, projects, and/or programs that are environmentally, socially and economically justified.
04.
Partnerships
To initiate and sustain the widest possible proactive participation, support and engagement for the conservation of wetlands.
05.
Humanities
To showcase and explore the role of humanities in fostering the spiritual, scientific, aesthetic, historic and social value of wetlands and their conservation.
06.
Workshops
To demonstrate skills, tools, resources, research or applications that contribute to growing, managing or sustaining wetland ecosystems.
Conference Structure
We believe that each and everyone has a stake in the conservation of our wetlands and the issues that surround them. So, this year, we have structured our conference to allow for broader participation from all walks of our community. The conference program is divided into 4 half-day phases, each of which is based on the following themes.
Day 1 Morning
Sustainability
Day 1 Afternoon
Reconciliation & Truth Telling
Day 2 Morning
Partnerships
Day 2 Afternoon
Leadership
Day 3 Workshops
Registration Fees
All participants are required to officially register to attend the conference (including presenters). The fees are payable online on our Registration Portal by PayPal or Credit/Debit Card. If you wish to make a payment by an alternate method, or for bulk bookings of greater than 10 delegates, kindly contact us to arrange your registration. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, fees are kept to a minimum to enable all sectors of the community to attend this conference.
Concessional Registration is applicable to students, unwaged, pensioners and concession card holders.
*All fees inclusive of GST
| Type | Both days | One day |
| Early bird registration: | $ 230 | $ 120 |
| Early bird concessions registration: | $ 130 | $ 70 |
| General registration: | $ 300 | $ 165 |
| Concessional registration: | $ 170 | $ 90 |
| Presenter registration: | $ 50 | $ 50 |
Early Bird Registration Portal
Click the link to register your participation.
Early Bird Registrations Close
We encourage you to register well before the closing date to avoid disappointment.
30th November 2023
Wednesday
The Venue
Located 15 km south of Perth, The Wetlands Centre Cockburn is located on the bushland west of the resplendent Bibra Lake. It is easily accessible by freeway, about a 30-minute drive from Perth CBD. If you plan on driving down, please note that there is limited on-site parking is available. Where possible we encourage the more sustainable option of carpooling (please opt-in when you register if you are interested). If you plan on taking public transport, the nearest train station is Murdoch. However, there are fewer bus options, with the closest bus stops about 1km away from the centre by walk.
Link to view directions on Google Maps: The Wetlands Centre Cockburn, 184 Hope Rd, Bibra Lake WA 6163
The Program
The program will be made available this website in early December 2022. At the start of each of the four themed sessions, our distinguished keynote speakers will set the stage with their inspiring stories, fresh perspectives and pioneering concepts. They will be followed by exemplary guest speakers who, with their presentations, will keep up the energy and vibrancy of the sessions, flowing into plenary discussions that will bring every session to a close with a fusion of ideas and a merger of minds. There will be plenty of networking opportunities during well-timed breaks, with refreshments being served.
The Audience
The conference is intended to bring together a community of volunteers, landowners, students, local and state government officers, industry and private sector environmental officers, educators, academics, community leaders, aboriginal representatives and cultural stakeholders involved with wetland-related work and endeavours. Our past conferences have fostered meaningful interactions, discourse and exchange between the audience. We hope that our new two-day format allows for rich, deep, and diverse conversations and engagement among all attendees.
Photographs and Recordings
Important: Please note that we retain your implicit permission to capture/record and use your photographs and video recordings during the conference. We will do our best to accommodate image takedown requests post publication, but it will be at the organiser’s discretion.
Conference Proceedings
Papers, presentations, workshop session recordings and takeaways will be collected and be available on our website www.thewetlandscentre.org.au/conference. You are welcome to review the 2022 Conference Proceedings as an example at www.thewetlandscentre.org.au/conference/proceedings-2022/
Sponsors
We would like to thank and acknowledge the generous support of our sponsors, who make this event possible. If your organisation would like to consider sponsoring this event, please visit our sponsorship webpage to know more.
For further details
please contact the conference organisers
The Wetlands Centre Cockburn
184 Hope Rd, Bibra Lake WA 6163
(08) 9417 8460
conference@thewetlandscentre.org.au
www.thewetlandscentre.org.au/conference
