28/09/2026
Come to the WCA AGM and stay for our guest speaker
AGM Thursday 15th October at 6:45pm and Speaker at 7:30-9:00pm
Venue: the Community Hall, Neighbourhood House
Community Centre, 168-178 Yarra Street, Warrandyte.
Guest speaker, Vicky Shukuroglou, will talk about Maintaining biodiversity and habitat in the face of urban development.
Vicky Shukuroglou is a local artist, photographer, writer, and ecologist. Much of her work involves bringing people with different knowledge, interests and perspectives into conversation — exploring how understanding shapes the way we see, value, and care for living systems.
She sees opportunities for relationships to develop, understandings to shift, and for depleted systems — natural and social — to regenerate. Working alongside engineers, land managers, Council and residents, she has helped turn conflicts around development and habitat into practical, lasting outcomes.
That same approach underpins all her activities. She founded Nillumbio, a biodiversity-focused community learning and action organisation in Nillumbik, and convenes Friends of Biodiversity Hohnes Hill, leading the ongoing care of a reserve with complex ecological management requirements.
Vicky co-authored and photographed the ACE Guide to Eucalypts Melbourne, and Loving Country: A Guide to Sacred Australia, which was shortlisted for the ABIA Awards and named by Booktopia among its Best Beautiful Books of 2020.
