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.
Wildflower Walk (13/10/2024)
16 September 2024
Enjoy Mount Majura’s Floriade on a stroll with local plant ecologist Michael Doherty and see what is in bloom on the mountain this spring. When: Sunday, 13th October 2024, from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm Where: Meet at the car park nature park entrance Mackenzie Street roughly opposite Grayson Street in Hackett, click on this map to ...Continue reading >
St John’s Wort Under Fire
7 September 2024
St John’s Wort spread like wildfire across the Canberra region over the past years, wreaking havoc on native plant species in grasslands and grassy woodlands. St John’s Wort (SJW) is listed as one of the four most serious grassland weeds in the ACT Government’s Natural Temperate Grassland Endangered Ecological Community Action Plan, emphasising the gravity ...Continue reading >
FoMM Newsletter – September 2024
1 September 2024Celebrate the arrival of spring by enjoying time on Mount Majura! Join the Friends of Mount Majura in activities to improve the reserve and learn about the flora and fauna who call Mount Majura home. Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris visiting the purple flowering vine Hardenbergia violacea twining through the branches of a Drooping Sheoak Allocasuarina verticillata. Photo taken on Mount Majura ...Continue reading >
Bird Walk (22/09/2024)
28 August 2024
Join bird enthusiast Peter Miller for a morning stroll to spot, observe, listen to, and learn about the amazing variety of birds living on and visiting Mt Majura. We plan to walk on rough foot tracks, and off track on uneven ground. Some rare and uncommon feathery visitors have been spotted recently. With some luck, we may ...Continue reading >
