Event Type
Landcare Region
BCT Region
Following the webinar on Wednesday 17 and Thursday 18 April, Shoalhaven Landcare have organised for Jack Hinde and Rob Ambrose (another knowledgeable reptile enthusiast who will be bringing a few reptilian friends with him) to do a walk and talk at 4 different locations in the Southern Highlands/Illawarra area.
Site 1- 17 April 2024, 9.30-11.00am Mt Gibraltar - Inner Bowl Reserve - Bowral
Site 2 - 17 April 2024, 2.00-3.30pm - Coolana - 24 Tallowa Rd, Kangaroo Valley
Site 3 - 18 April 2024, 9.30-11.00am - Ben's Walk - Nowra Showground, Nowra
Site 4 -18 April 2024, 2.00-3.30pm - Mt Keira/Djeera - Summit Park, Wollongong
(you do not need to attend all of the talks; they will be similar).
Jack Hinde is an environmental educator at the Illawarra Environmental Education Centre and Bomaderry High School where he teaches children from Kindergarten to Year Twelve. He studied at Wollongong, Canberra and New England Universities and has qualifications in ecology, education and indigenous archaeology.
Jack has a lifelong passion for the outdoors and observing local ecosystems. When he is not engrossed in local environments he is typically thinking about or working with reptiles and snakes. He has kept venomous snakes since the age of twelve and is currently focused on the captive breeding of the Broad Headed Snake, Australia’s only endangered snake species.