March - April 2022
Our Clean and Green E-newsletter is the best way to keep up-to-date on the latest environmental and sustainability news, events and initiatives in our community. Learn how we can make our City cleaner and greener and make sure you share this email with your friends!
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Ramadan Nights Lakemba returns!
Take your taste buds on a journey and experience authentic food stalls in Lakemba! Ramadan Nights Lakemba returns with over 70 stalls and hundreds of foods, from camel burgers to knafeh. This vibrant cultural event will be open every night during Ramadan, plan your trip and skip the queues by visiting Monday-Wednesday. Parking will be very limited, so the best way to get there is by taking public transport or our FREE shuttle bus from Campsie and Roselands.
When: 21 March-20 April, dusk-3am
Where: Haldon Street, Lakemba
Details: To plan your trip, visit cb.city/RamadanNights
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Contribute to a Resilient City
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Have Your Say
We take caring for our City seriously and that means making sure we're ready for the future. CBCity has prepared a draft resilience strategy to ensure the City is able to survive, adapt and thrive, no matter what challenges we face today and in the future as our diverse community grows and changes.
We want to make sure our plans serve the community, so we're inviting you to have your say on the draft strategy. You can find information and contribute your feedback by visiting this page.
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Nature Safari
Get into nature with an experienced ecologist as your guide. This is a great chance to discover the wild things that inhabit our local parks.
On this special Nature Safari, participants will be trained to use their own senses to unlock the local natural world, discover local wildlife and get familiar with the creatures that rule our local habitats. Be amazed by the diversity of wildlife our local area has to offer, many of which are regularly overlooked.
31 March 2023 (special after school time)
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A fun way to help your environment
Explore and share your observations from the natural world. How many wild animals and plants live in your local area?
Discover what wild things inhabit Canterbury-Bankstown. Our city has plenty to discover across its many parks, rivers and even in our backyards.
We're calling on citizen scientists of all ages to help document our amazing flora and fauna. You don’t need to be an expert, just snap a photo! Simply make observations about the plants and animals you encounter and upload them to the iNaturalist app.
It’s as easy as see it, snap it, share it.
Find out more
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In CBCity, we love our rivers.
Canterbury-Bankstown is a City of three rivers – the Cooks, the Georges and the Duck. Our rivers are all different but each plays an important role in the ecosystem we share.
From March to May each year, we show how We Love Our Rivers by hosting and promoting events in and around our waterways. Check out the range of events by clicking here.
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Give a Hoot for Powerful Owls
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Help Us Find Our Owls
Powerful Owls are incredible birds. They are Australia’s largest owl with a wingspan of up to 140cm, and form breeding pairs that mate for life. Despite their sensitivity to disturbance, they can still be found in some Sydney suburbs, particularly those with small areas of bushland.
As part of Council’s Powerful Owl Project, Council has installed habitat boxes to provide additional nesting options and is actively investigating local Powerful Owl populations by looking for nesting trees and tracking calls. In collaboration with researchers, last year a breeding pair was successfully located using audio recorders, but we believe there are more breeding pairs about.
We still need your help. The Powerful Owl has a unique call that is more vocal during the breeding season from May to July. Reporting Powerful Owl calls will help us to find our local breeding pairs so that we can better protect them.
Seen or heard a Powerful Owl? Tell us more to help protect Australia’s largest owl.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/ourcbcity/videos/1037473303545582 to learn more about Powerful Owl calls or to report observations.Give a hoot for our local owls
Image: By Greg Sharkey
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While you're looking for owls...
It’s time to get your Birds in Backyards Autumn Survey in!
Birds in Backyards surveys are an important part of research into the birds that share their environments with us. The surveys are used to track the health of our urban birds, and to monitor the impact of our gardens, outdoor spaces and our own behaviours on bird populations. They can even help us to understand how different types of gardens can attract different birds, and which features birds may be avoiding or are negatively affected by.
Birds in Backyards surveys typically run at the beginning of each season), but you can still submit surveys at any time. You can also do as many surveys as you like, as often as you like! All you do is submit at least one 20-minute count alongside some information about your garden. Anyone with a backyard or common garden - large or small - can take part. And there’s no need to be an expert birdwatcher to help, the survey has features to assist you like a list of 30 common birds in your area with photos.
Find out more
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Learn About Native Gardening
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Native Garden Talks
Are you interested in learning about native gardening and attracting native animals to your garden? To help, we've released the CBCity native plant guide, Your native garden: A guide to bring native plants and animals back to your garden. We're also holding talks to help you incorporate native plants into your gardens, no matter its size.
Native gardening for beginners
When: Saturday 25 March, 10-11am
Where: Campsie Library and Knowledge Centre
Companion planting with natives
When: Wednesday 29 March, 10-11am
Where: Greenacre Library and Knowledge Centre
Creating a butterfly garden
When: Thursday 30 March, 11am-noon
Where: Riverwood Library and Knowledge Centre
Birdscaping your garden
When: Saturday 1 April, 10-11am
Where: Chester Hill Library and Knowledge Centre
For more information, call Robyn Young on 9707 9000 or visit cb.city/NativeGardenTalks
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native plant giveaway
Collect your FREE native plants from 25-31 March. A selection of native trees, shrubs, grasses and groundcovers seedlings, grown from locally-collected seeds will be available at:
- Campsie Library and Knowledge Centre
- Chester Hill Library and Knowledge Centre
- Greenacre Library and Knowledge Centre
- Riverwood Library and Knowledge Centre
Residents can visit during opening hours. There is a limit of four plants per household, with limited plants available.
For more information, visit cb.city/NativePlants or call Robyn Young on 9707 9000.
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Contribute to Better Local Government
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Council is undertaking an important Review on how we undertake community engagement.
We want to make it easier for your voice to be heard, and to make sure your input gets the response it deserves. We're working with the University of Technology Sydney Centre for Local Government (UTS: CLG) to conduct a review of how we listen and respond to our community.
Your feedback is critical part of this process. You can have your say throughout March and April 2023 in one of the following ways:
- Fill in a short online survey which will be available on Council’s Have Your Say website
- Contact Amy Lawton, Senior Consultant at UTS: CLG on amy.lawton@uts.edu.au with written feedback or to set up a time to share your views through a short conversation.
We look forward to your contribution to this important Council initiative!
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