Mount Pleasant Natural Resource Centre Inc.

06/05/2026

01/05/2026

If you'd like to read our latest newsletter you can find it here thanks to MP Beat 💚

https://www.mtpleasantbeat.org/district-newsletters

24/04/2026

🌿📷 This weekend is the City Nature Challenge, and Mount Pleasant is full of amazing wildlife waiting to be discovered!

Get outside enjoy the sunshine, take a walk around the garden, creek, paddock or local reserve, and snap photos of any wild plants, birds, insects, fungi or animals you find. Every observation helps build a picture of the biodiversity in our region.

Pippi is already on the lookout 👀🔍

How to join:
1️⃣ Download the iNaturalist app
2️⃣ Take photos of wild nature around Mount Pleasant this weekend
3️⃣ Upload your sightings

You don’t need to know what species it is, the app and community can help identify it.

Let’s see how much nature we can record around Mount Pleasant this weekend! 🌼🦋🐝🐦

09/04/2026

We've now got a small recycling station at the Environment Centre ♻️
You can bring in your empty blister packs, small household batteries, old phones & chargers, and CDs & DVDs (no cases please) 🤩

You'll find our Environment Centre in the recreate shop behind the Mount Pleasant library 😊

We're open Wednesday to Saturday from 10am til 3pm 💚

23/03/2026

It's National Eucalypt Day!
Held yearly on March 23rd, it's a day to celebrate, and appreciate, our beautiful Eucalypts 🌳
This year's theme is: Our Eucalypt Home: Unique, Irreplaceable, Treasured.
https://eucalyptaustralia.org.au/national-eucalypt-day/

As a nod to the importance of Eucalypts in our ecosystem we will be giving away a Pink Gum for each purchase this week at recreate* 🌱
We also have both River Red and SA Blue gum tube stock on sale at $1 per tube 🌱

We are open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am til 3pm 💚

*While stocks last

01/03/2026

Autumn Seasonal Frog Census | 1st–8th March 🐸

You're invited to join the Autumn Seasonal Census to help uncover the hidden world of frogs! By simply recording frog calls, you’ll be helping ecologists track how frog populations are doing and what that means for our ecosystems. 🌱

Every recording helps experts identify species, monitor breeding patterns, and understand habitat changes.

To learn more or take part, visit the Frog Census website🔗

https://www.frogwatchsa.com.au/?utm_content=sked_69a0e4c9d3ec44eb96ae37a3&utm_medium=social&utm_name=sked&utm_source=facebook

26/02/2026

In our community garden we've had a flurry of insect activity around the flowering mint 🦟🦋🐝🪰

Today a beautiful Australian Painted Lady was the highlight 😍 Here's a short video 🦋

Also, did you know we have an Environment Centre?
You can collect a butterfly chart from us so you can identify any visitors to your garden.

We're open Wednesday to Saturday from 10am til 3pm
Find us in the Recreate shop 💚

19/02/2026

What do you get when you move a pot in the nursery at The Mount Pleasant Environment Centre?
🐸🐸🐸

Three little tree frogs
Underneath a pot
Hiding from the sun
On a day quite hot

One jumped left
And two jumped right
Who are these big humans
Giving us a fright?!
🐸🐸🐸

South Australian Tree Frogs (Rawlinsonia calliscelis) 💚

06/02/2026

It's a great time of year to spot insects!
Check out this amazing Bee Fly we had visiting our community garden this week 🤩
It's known as a Large Banded Bee Fly (Ligyra cingulata)🪰

Bee Flies are true flies and part of the Bombyliidae family. They have a hovering type of flight, and make quite a loud buzzing sound. They're important pollinators feeding on nectar and pollen. An asset in the bush, and in the garden! 💚