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and see how your actions can make a difference. This website has a host of resources to help you connect to and restore nature in the city.

The good news is that contact with nature has been scientifically proven to improve people’s physical and mental health and benefit child development – a green city is good for people as well as nature.

NatureLink Perth has six goals to achieve a nature-linked city. To find out more about Naturelinks, Our Community of Practice and Resources created by our community, click on the tabs above. Creating new techniques and promoting naturelinks happens within Our Community of Practice. The Connect to Nature goal seeks to share information to provide a myriad of ways you can connect to nature, connect with people, restore nature and gain the benefits our world class biodiversity provides.

What is a nature-linked city?

Perth as a nature-linked city is a beautiful, healthy and liveable city which

• provides daily access to nature for all people, families and children improving our well-being, physical and mental health
• conserves and enhances our biodiversity in this global biodiversity hotspot
• is resilient to climate change and other stresses taking advantage of ‘free’ ecosystem services.
• supports a unique sense of place informed by Noongar wisdom.

There are many ways to achieve this. Each of the images below provides a link to resources to help empower everyone to make Perth a nature-linked city.

Protect and enhance conservation reserves, seeks to sustain the natural habitats on which our native plants and animals depend. Although, on their own they are insufficient to conserve our biodiversity into the future. Conservation areas in the city have become increasingly isolated, small and fragmented.

So, we need Naturelinks to connect isolated natural areas, and to Restore urban nature, enhancing biodiversity in remnant bushlands and wetlands on public and private land, providing places where people can directly engage with nature.

If we Create natural infrastructure in existing and new urban developments, nature can provide ecosystem services such as cooling, improving air and water quality, and social amenity increasing the resilience of a city under climate change, benefiting people and wildlife.

To improve people’s wellbeing, we need to increase Nature in Public Places. Increasing the biodiversity of our public open spaces provides a sense of place, interaction with nature, multiple recreational opportunities such as natureplay – so important for child development – and landscape diversity for people.

Nature at Home encourages people to incorporate native plants and greenery into their gardens, rooftops and balconies of apartments, homes and schools, so you can benefit every day.

If you click on these, we can show you how.