Welcome to the website of the Friends of Mount Majura. We are a volunteer Park Care Group working to protect and enhance the natural environment on Mount Majura and its surroundings. Explore this website to find out about upcoming events and to learn more about the plants and animals you will encounter on the mountain.
Enjoy a film about the Friends of Mt Majura produced by our guest students from Taiwan during their stay in Canberra in autumn 2022.
FoMM Newsletter – December 2024
1 December 2024As the year draws to a close, we reflect on the wonderful activities and achievements of 2024. Highlights are the environmental grant to deal with weed management at The Fair and the Office of Nature Conservation project which is restoring a section of woodland by planting more wildflowers in the seed nodes and along a ...Continue reading >
A Weed Management Plan for Mt Majura
30 November 2024
Friends of Mt Majura (FoMM) are exited to announce a Weed Management Plan for The Fair. The Plan was developed with FoMM to help manage priority weeds at The Fair using funding from the Restoration program under the Conserving Canberra Budget 2023-2025. Over more than a decade Friends of Mt Majura worked to improve degraded grassy ...Continue reading >
End-of-the-Year Working Party (15/12/2024)
20 November 2024
Give a hand at the last work party for this year hosted by the Friends of Mt Majura on Sunday, 15th December; help to remove Japanese Honeysuckle, Privets and other woody weeds from the drainage line close to the Hackett water tank; and see how planted local shrubs and wildflowers are slowly taking over. When: Sunday ...Continue reading >
FoMM Newsletter – November 2024
1 November 2024
Winter and now spring have been low rainfall seasons, and this has had an impact on the vegetation and wildlife in the reserve, with small dams drying out, and new plantings needing to be watered. As always there are still weeds thriving and FoMM is active in tackling the worst invasive species in our endangered ...Continue reading >
