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Junior Landcare Photo Competition -

What’s in your backyard?

“The entire environment is your backyard” - Costa Georgiadis, Junior Landcare Ambassador

Joining forces with Junior Landcare, the popular TV star and Landcare champion has launched the ‘What’s In Your Backyard?’ campaign to encourage the next generation to get outside and document what’s in their local environment.

Take a photo, tell us what’s in your backyard and why it is important to you.

Your backyard might be a garden. If you live in an apartment, your garden could be plants on your balcony. You may live near a park or bushland area, or a river or wetland. You may live on the coast close to the sea, or on a farm. Your local environment is your backyard!

You can submit a photo as an individual or as a school. There are four categories that you can submit your photo:

• Biodiversity – birds, bees, insects, flowers, trees and more!
• Food production – your food garden may include vegetables, fruit and herbs
• Indigenous perspectives – bush tucker gardens
• Waste management – worm farm, compost, recycling bins.

If you enter as a school you will automatically be entered into the school prize category in addition to any of the four categories that you select.

https://juniorlandcare.org.au/campaigns/whatsinyourbackyard/

Closing date: Monday 20 April 2020

City Nature Challenge – Greater Adelaide

In 2020, Adelaide, South Australia will be participating in the City Nature Challenge for the first time! Help us compete with cities from around the world by making the most natural observations possible from April 24-27 2020. Let's show the world the incredible diversity Adelaide has to offer. From koalas and kangaroos, to flora and fauna of all shapes and sizes!

During the 4-day window of this challenge, if you are anywhere in Greater Adelaide, snap a photo of your natural observation and upload it to the iNaturalist website making sure to include the location! The observations will automatically be pooled to this project so that we can compete with participants from cities all over the world!

The ‘Greater Adelaide’ region is actually quite broad – it stretches all the way to Jervois, Mypolonga, Ettrick and Goolwa! See here for a map.

https://citynaturechallenge.org/participate/

Challenge takes place: Friday 24 April – Monday 27 April 2020