NatureLink Perth: a community of practice
We began in 2019 with a team of 12 undergraduate students from Environmental and Conservation Science at Murdoch University who, in 4 months, interviewed over 80 organisations asking, “What are the barriers and opportunities to integrating nature into our city?” Compiling the answers they created a symposium, inviting key experts to share their knowledge. Interactive audience participation throughout the event led to the creation of our community of practice in July 2019.
Our community is inclusive. It is important that all facets of society work together to integrate nature into our city. Our community of practice includes organisations and people from state and local governments and agencies, science, business, natural resource management, consultants, developers, education and community.
What is a ‘community of practice’?
A ‘community of practice’ has no formal obligations imposed on individuals or organisations but is rather a group of stakeholders with a common pursuit of shared goals, each contributing information and resources as they wish, with a mutual desire to partner/work together towards a nature-linked city.
Click on the image to the left to find out more about naturelinks and how you can help, using our interactive storymap.
Our community of practice has different levels of participation:
representatives from diverse organisations provide leadership and strategic networking
manages our community’s activities and internships
Since 2019 we have had over 50 undergraduate internships, one Honours, one Masters and one PhD student. They partner with organisations to create new knowledge and techniques needed within our community. Many of these resources can be found under the Resources Do you have a project an intern might help you with? Email us at naturelinkperth@murdoch.edu.au
an active community creating action on the ground. We currently have over 700 people and over 100 organisations. Each month we showcase everyone’s events and activities and share information in our newsletter. Join us! It’s free!
While not actively engaged in day-to-day operations, the wider community of Perth benefit from our resources, workshops and events.
representatives from diverse organisations provide leadership and strategic networking
manages our community’s activities and internships
Since 2019 we have had over 50 undergraduate internships, one Honours, one Masters and one PhD student. They partner with organisations to create new knowledge and techniques needed within our community. Many of these resources can be found under the Resources Do you have a project an intern might help you with? Email us at naturelinkperth@murdoch.edu.au
an active community creating action on the ground. We currently have over 700 people and over 100 organisations. Each month we showcase everyone’s events and activities and share information in our newsletter. Join us! It’s free!
While not actively engaged in day-to-day operations, the wider community of Perth benefit from our resources, workshops and events.
The newsletter and this website provides a place to share information and resources so we can work together, creating synergies that exceed our individual efforts. It’s great to be part of a bigger design, so you can see how your actions fit into an ongoing transition of Perth into a nature-linked city.
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