Events

The debate on climate change is rightly focused on the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases. But whatever our success or failure in mitigating emissions, we must now also ask how the harmful impacts of a rapidly-changing climate affect living on the Gold Coast—and beyond.

With more than 30 years of local research and experience in our botanical landscape, David is our November guest speaker. Come along and be inspired. Wednesday 28th Currumbin RSL.

Gecko Talks – 26 September – How You Can Help Koalas, Native Birds—and Your Pets—Thrive If you’re interested in making life better for your pet—and keen to learn more on how you can help vulnerable koala or native bird populations —here’s the talk for you. Dog attacks continue to occur Read more…

“Earthman” John Palmer OAM, is an experienced environmental educator with four decades of experience and knowledge of Australian natural environment, local bushtucker, nature tours and Indigenous Australia. He is, and has always been, truly one with nature and taken his connection and love for it to great heights by actually living in a tree at one point of his life!
John believes in celebrating our environment and looking for positive connections with it. He uses music, human interaction, art and any other means suitable to do that. He calls his concept of connecting us, the land, the flora and fauna, “The Opera of Existence” and wished to share this concept with us in an engaging and interactive way.
Come along, leave your daily worries behind, open your mind and celebrate the beauty of our world and your place in it through this interactive presentation!

When a leading local environmentalist says her trip to Africa was probably one of her best holidays ever, you can bet she’ll have a rich story to tell of the trip.
Lois Levy, founding president and Campaign Coordinator of Gecko, the Gold Coast’s peak environmental body, recently returned from a safari in Botswana which fulfilled a lifelong dream.
Hear her distinctive view on the ecology and some of the animals of that country, which she chose not only because of her research and because it’s considered politically stable—but also she’d enjoyed the movie, A United Kingdom!