Awards | Friends of Parks and Nature South Australia

2025 Friends of Parks and Nature Inc. Awards Dinner

Stavroula Tsapaliaris — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 06:58:11 +0000

Join us for a night of celebration, inspiration and connection at the 2025 Friends of Parks and Nature Inc. Awards Dinner.

Even if your group has not nominated for an award, it’s a wonderful opportunity to come together to recognise and celebrate the amazing achievements by the Friends of Parks and Nature groups across South Australia’s national parks and other conservation sites. A complimentary ticket will be given to groups who nominated.

When & Where

6pm – 10pm, Saturday 30 August 2025
Adelaide Pavilion, cnr South Terrace & Peacock Rd, Adelaide

The night will include:

Opening Address by the Deputy Premier, The Hon. Susan Close, Minister for Climate, Environment and Science
Three-course dinner at Adelaide Pavilion (non-alcoholic drinks included)
Special Guest Speaker – Sophie Green, Project Coordinator, Fungi for Function from Fungimap
2025 Friends of Parks and Nature Inc. Awards Presentation

Buy your ticket here (ticket sales close 14 August).

Please note nominations for awards have now closed.

2021 SA Landcare Awards call for nomination. The awards recognise individuals and groups in South Australia for their outstanding contributions to preserving the unique Australian landscape

Carole Pinnock — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 07:05:48 +0000

Landcare SA is inviting nominations for the 2021 SA Landcare Awards. The awards recognise individuals and groups in South Australia for their outstanding contributions to preserving the unique Australian landscape.

Faced with the devastation of the Black Summer bushfires, the impact of the drought and floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Landcarers across South Australia have rallied in the wake of unparalleled challenges. Landcarers have been locally active rebuilding communities with on-ground projects including habitat restoration for threatened species, bushland regeneration, wellbeing and mental health activities.

Landcare SA is very excited to be partnering with Green Adelaide to announce the Green Adelaide Urban Landcare Award, open to all urban Landcare Groups in South Australia.

The Green Adelaide Urban Landcare Award acknowledges an outstanding community group that has made significant contributions to increasing community capacity for sustainable living and nature connection and advocacy, and/or is undertaking on-ground action to protect, enhance or restore the natural values of a site on behalf of the wider community, in any urban area across South Australia.

Check out the link to nominate a Landcare Hero today.

SA state heritage celebrated in Heritage SnAps Photo Competition 2021

Carole Pinnock — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:10:26 +0000

Once again, Heritage South Australia, in conjunction with the South Australian Heritage Council and Botanic Gardens Restaurant, is running this year’s photography competition to promote South Australia’s wonderful State Heritage Places. As you know, it is called ‘Heritage SnAps Photo Competition 2021’.

By raising awareness of State Heritage Places in South Australia (we now have 2,302 of them!) we will encourage the community to visit the places and take interest in our state’s heritage. We want to positively engage with individuals and the communities to inspire interest and participation in taking high quality photographs of State Heritage Places. The competition coincides with the release of our new Heritage Tourism Strategy for South Australia – ‘Growing our Heritage Future’.

There are 4 categories for people to enter photos:

Category 1 – Maritime Heritage coastal and riverine (includes Shipwrecks and Heritage listed lighthouses, jetties, obelisks, wharfs and boatsheds).
Category 2 – Heritage visits (featuring people enjoying our State Heritage Places).
Category 3 – Professional and Edited photos of State Heritage Places
Category 4 – Young talent (under 18) taking photos of State Heritage Places (encouraging school age kids to learn about our Heritage).

Heritage South Australia encourages all students to enter – either via Category 4 if under 18, or any other category if over 18. So please recommend this to any relatives or friends who are students.

If you wish to know more about State Heritage locations – please check our SA Heritage Database to see if it is:

http://maps.sa.gov.au/heritagesearch/HeritageSearchLocation.aspx

There are fantastic prizes on offer, including a SeaLink holiday, One and All sailing ship day sail, family passes to Adelaide Gaol and Naracoorte Caves, Botanic Gardens Restaurant dining experiences and more from generous South Australian sponsors.

The competition is open now and will close on 15 October 2021.

There will be an official event in December 2021 at Torrens Parade Ground in Adelaide to announce the winners.

Entry into the competition is via our website where you will also find our terms & conditions:

www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/heritage/heritage-photo-competitions/snaps-competition-2021

Please feel free to call me on telephone 8226 2127 or email david.hanna@sa.gov.au if you have any queries.

Information about our past photo competitions can be found here: https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/heritage/heritage-photo-competitions

I look forward to your entries and good luck.

Kind regards,

David Hanna

Executive Officer, South Australian Heritage Council

Birdlife Australia’s Photography Wards this year features the theme Plovers, Dotterels, and Lapwings. Entries close August 2nd!

Carole Pinnock — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 04:22:21 +0000

However there are many other categories as well!

Backyard Birds and Birds in Flight were such popular new categories they’re staying on for 2021!

We are proud to announce that Nikon Australia are sponsoring the 2021 awards, each category winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, with a whopping $5,000 cash going to the portfolio winner.

To be eligible for the portfolio prize, entrants must submit at least 6 different photographs as part of a cohesive portfolio.

REMINDER: when photographing wildlife, please ensure that you uphold the BirdLife Photography ethics standards (https://birdlifephotography.org.au/index.php/about-us/our-policies)

Welcome to the third annual Birdlife Australia Photography Awards.

Backyard Birds and Birds in Flight were such popular new categories they’re staying on for 2021!

We are proud to announce that Nikon Australia are sponsoring the 2021 awards, each category winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, with a whopping $5,000 cash going to the portfolio winner.

To be eligible for the portfolio prize, entrants must submit at least 6 different photographs as part of a cohesive portfolio.

REMINDER: when photographing wildlife, please ensure that you uphold the BirdLife Photography ethics standards (https://birdlifephotography.org.au/index.php/about-us/our-policies)

For more information go to https://www.birdlifephotoaward.org.au/

Rotary Club of Burnside Inc 2019 Awards

admin — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:45:26 +0000

Rotary Club of Burnside Inc 2019 Awards

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**AWARDS NOW CLOSED**

Nominations for the Rotary Club of Burnside’s Parks Awards featuring recognition for service in ‘Leadership in Conservation’ and ‘Volunteer of the Parks’ are now open, and will close on 28 March, 2019.

As they did in 2018, Rotary is pleased to continue with the award criteria as follows:

Volunteer of the Parks award – open to anyone who is going above and beyond as a volunteer looking after our natural resources whether on park or on other land, whether they be from a Friends of Parks Inc. member group or other environmental group

Leadership in Conservation award – this now includes employees from other departments and agencies, perhaps working on a DEW project, but not necessarily, and who fit the criteria of being a leader and role model to others, being innovative and thinking/working with a view to the future.

The Rotary Club of Burnside Inc. has also kindly agreed to provide the following monetary prizes to the winners:

Volunteer of the Parks – $500 towards a project of their choice, or some sort of professional development

Leadership in Conservation – $500 towards professional development e.g. training course, conference

Funds will be available until 30^th June 2020 for the winners, who will need to inform Rotary when they find a suitable course, project etc.

The presentation this year will be a two course luncheon at the Hackney Hotel , on Sunday, 26 May , at 12.00 pm at $55 per person, (please see online invitation below).

You can book by clicking on the link in the invite, or by going to directly to the TryBooking site: https://www.trybooking.com/ZWVT

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