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.
Working Party @ Drainage Ditch (16/02/2025)
13 January 2025
Come along and give a hand at the Friends of Mt Majura working party on Sunday, 16 February, help remove Japanese Honeysuckle and other pesky weeds from the bottom of at the drainage ditch close to the Hackett water tank and spread wood chip mulch to suppress new germination of Chilean needle grass along the ...Continue reading >
Summer Twilight Weeding @ The Fair
28 December 2024
As in the past two years, the Friends of Mt Majura will be hosting twilight weeding sessions at The Fair during the weeks on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from the 7th January until further notice. Start the new year with a good deed, enjoy a relaxing summer eve hand-weeding among precious native wildflowers, good company and ...Continue reading >
Butterfly Walk and Talk (02/02/2025)
28 December 2024
Are you curious about what flutters around on Mt Majura? Enjoy an easy, informative walk on Sunday, 2nd February, with Dr Suzi Bond, biologist, butterfly expert, and author of A Field Guide to Butterflies of the ACT. When: Sunday 2nd February; 10 am to 12noon; note: the walk be cancelled if it is raining. Meet: at the ...Continue reading >
Woody Weeds Working Party (19/01/2025)
11 December 2024
Welcome the New Year with a working party to remove woody weeds in the nature reserve around the gully adjacent to Valour Park. Friends of Mount Majura will be returning to the area to continue cut and dab Sweet Briar roses and remove young blue gums on Sunday 19 January in a shady site mostly ...Continue reading >
