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We are very excited to share that our recently released Waterways Field Guide have been nominated as a finalist for the 2016 Healthy Waterways Awards, in the category of Sustainable Education. These guides were developed as an initiative of Gold Coast Waterwatch, which was supported and undertaken by both the City of Gold Coast Catchment Management Unit and Natura Education.

The Waterways Field Guide Project produced a series of booklets that were published using the collective knowledge of various local organisations and specialists, and is an accumulation of valuable information about our

In December last year, we released the first in a series of field guides titled “Waterways Field Guide, Series 1: Water Bugs”. Being an initiative of Gold Coast Waterwatch, the Water Bugs guide was quickly heralded to be a success by many in the Gold Coast Community, with copies continuing to be sought after by a wide range of students, teachers, scientists and members of the community to be used as a valuable field and teaching resource.

Following on from this success, we are now very proud to be able to introduce

Our Waterwatch team has been ever so busy and we wanted to share with you what we got up to throughout the July to September period of the 2015 program. During this time our educators worked with 11 schools and approximately 1,035 students, wow! With all of these enthusiastic young waterwatchers we successfully carried out monitoring at 12 sites within 5 catchments throughout the Gold Coast. So what about the nuts and bolts of it all? Well, over this time we taught 16 lessons (over 19 testing days), which were

We at Natura have been working on an exciting new project recently for Gold Coast Waterwatch that we simply can’t wait to share with all.

Now teachers, students, scientists and members of the community will all benefit from an exciting new resource that has been developed under the Waterwatch banner. Hot off the press is the new Waterways Field Guide Series 1: Water Bugs! This brand new field guide will become an invaluable tool for budding or seasoned biologists to use in the field as they explore the wonders of their local

Gold Coast Waterwatch (GCWW) is a community service initiated and supported by the City of Gold Coast (CoGC) and facilitated by Natura Education. When delivering Waterwatch we engage with early learning centres, primary schools, secondary schools, community groups and community events to educate participants on the importance of healthy waterways and catchments. It is part of Waterwatch Australia, which is a nation-wide program that was launched over twenty years ago in 1993 to increase the community’s awareness of water quality and catchment health issues. The program aims to do this by engaging