Do you want to help shape a Biodiversity Strategy to better manage and restore the natural environment across the Ballarat region?
For the next month, you can get involved in the conversation about how to improve the health of our natural environment.
The City of Ballarat, in partnership with and alongside the Country Plans of the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Traditional Owners, has developed a Ballarat Biodiversity Conversation Kit to help guide conversations with your family, friends, community groups or colleagues.
A group of students and youth will also participate in a Young People’s Forum on 21 October to review the community’s feedback, identify priority areas and discuss ways that our youth can improve the health and variety of our ecosystems.
City of Ballarat Mayor, Cr Des Hudson said this is an important community consultation designed to look at how we can care for and restore a healthy environment.
“The Conversation Kit is designed to get you thinking about the environment, both the good and the bad, to share and hear those ideas with your peers, and to capture those views in a manner that we can best act on them,” he said.
“I encourage everyone to get involved and share your views to make sure that we take the right steps to improve the health of our environment.”
A range of community conversations with Traditional Owners, City of Ballarat Councillors and staff, and with key land and water authorities about the natural environment and how we can better manage it, will take place over the next few weeks.
To get involved:
• Visit mysay.ballarat.vic.gov.au/biodiversity-strategy and download the Ballarat Biodiversity Conversation Kit
• Follow the conversation plan and capture your conversation using the provided template
• Email photos of your template to [email protected] or provide feedback at mysay.ballarat.vic.gov.au/biodiversity-strategy by 5pm, Sunday 15 October
