Volunteer with our Bushcare team!

We’re looking for some new faces to join our Bushcare Team on Saturday mornings in Ku-ring-gai Flying Fox Reserve! No experience necessary, on-site training provided 🦇

Located in a beautiful gully forest along Stony Creek in Gordon (walkable from Gordon Station!) we’re pouring our efforts into revegetation along the creek banks and replacing canopy and rainforest species in critical Grey-Headed Flying Fox Habitat. Come help us plant trees and restore habitat! We’d love for you to stick around, but you’re more than welcome to come try it out for a day or a few weeks too, don’t be shy!

Volunteers taking a break after building an exclosure to fence off and protect native vegetation from wallaby browsing, as part of ongoing habitat restoration work.
  • You’ll meet like-minded people with a wealth of knowledge and experience about Bush Regeneration and Flying Foxes
  • Gain experience in Bush Regeneration, native plant and weed ID, and revegetation techniques
  • You’ll be out in the fresh air among trees and birds, and often spot wallabies and other wildlife!
  • Planting trees and restoring habitat is a very rewarding experience and great way to give back to your environment, you might just get hooked!

Why help Flying Foxes?

  • They are a Keystone Species – the Bees of the Trees! They are critical long distance pollinators and drivers of our ecosystems, keeping our forests healthy and genetically diverse. They migrate up and down our East Coast dispersing seeds as they regularly fly 30-50km a night eating fruit and.. well.. planting trees! They are the reforesting stars Australia needs after all those bushfires 🔥
  • They are a threatened species – listed as Vulnerable, with their numbers declining at a scary rate due to heat stress events, and now starvation following the fires and mass decimation of habitat and food resources 🌳
  • They’re extremely cute! 🦇

We need our little winged forest friends now more than ever, and they need us too! Help us help them 🦇🖤

How to sign up:

If you want to know more about our Bushcare Team or would like to sign-up, please visit Ku-ring-gai Council’s volunteering page and use any of the methods listed in the section “Get Involved” (directly above their YouTube video).