Who and Where We Are
Office Bearers for 2008
Peel Preservation Group Inc.
PO Box 1784
MANDURAH,WA, 6210
NEW OFFICE ADDRESS
Office 6
Old Community Health Building
63 Ormsby Terrace
MANDURAH, 6210
Phone: +61 08 9586 1310
Office: Mondays 9.30am-12 noon or by arrangement. Messages may be left on the answer phone. Answer phone usually checked through the week.
Email:Secretary
Where and When We Meet
Location Maps
General Meetings
At the Office - 63 Ormsby Terrace on the first Thursday of every month at 4.30pm. To check ring Monday mornings or e-mail Secretary
Anyone interested is welcome to attend. If you wish to be advised of any special speakers who may be attending, please use email or consult this site.
Saturday Morning Coffee Meetings
10.30am on the Saturday before the next general meeting - at the office.
- Peel Preservation Group is committed to preserving the natural qualities of the Peel-Harvey catchment and estuary.
- Peel Preservation Group provides an opportunity for all people to contribute to the preservation of the
natural environment.
- Peel Preservation Group is committed to ensuring that the natural biodiversity and integrity of life is preserved.
Notice Board
Lectures for 2008
For notes on recent lecture by Kingsley Dixon speaking on Climate Change : the potential for disaster and what we can do about it go to the Ongoing Issues
page and see also our publication in its new printed form (Thanks to Mandurah City Council): The Preservation Times
Also in The Preservation Times:Kangaroos Need Help and see also the Ongoing Issues page.
This website shares many of its news items and articles with the PPG magazine, The Preservation Times.
Contributions from interested people are always welcome. They may be in the form of emails, letters addressed to our office.
If you have any suggestions, comments or questions please let us know. NB the source of emails is not
published on this site unless requested.
NOTES FROM RECENT PPG MEETING
Members agreed to support Barry Small of "Canoe Trail Friends of Mandurah and Pinjarra Inc." in his move to establish boat exclusion zones in areas to provide sanctuary for all water and shore birds. These zones are
- Reserve at South end John St Coodanup
- Creery Wetlands
- Samphire Cove
- Len Howard Conservation Park.
There was a unanimous decision to co-opt Lynda Frings to the committee. Her enthusiasm is greatly appreciated.
The Committee is working on a grant application for funds to update the PPG book "The Birds of Goegrup and Black Lakes". We hope to commence the actual counting in 2009.
“The Power of Community”
This film was recently shown in Mandurah, an inspiring approach to managing economies through people power. Cuba experienced massive problems in the 1990's during the "Special Period" when catastrophic effects followed the plumeting of GDP because of loss of imports.
factories and businesses closed, electricity blackouts were common (causing among other things the difficulty in keeping perishable food), there was little petrol for cars, buses stopped running, food supplies were short, needing to be rationed and people almost starved
The PPG fund raiser was held at the Reading cinema Wednesday 6th August and attended by over 90 people. The speaker, Susan Hartley, told of her visit to Cuba and her impressions of the agricultural changes in response to food shortages. The City of Mandurah is thanked for their contribution to the event.
AGM
DATE - Friday 10th October 08 at 1 p.m. in the Tuckey Room.
GUEST SPEAKER - Piers Verstegen of Conservation Council of WA
TOPIC - "GOING FORWARD - The Role of the Conservation Movement in the Current Political Climate"
JOIN US for afternoon tea and a chat after the meeting.