What is Catchment Care?
Catchment Care is an integrated environmental education program offered to schools throughout the SA Murray Darling Basin NRM region.
Catchment Care Flyer (2mb)
Catchment Care program
- Help facilitate schools on their pathways towards environmental sustainability
- Provide professional development for teachers
- Assist schools to make links with local community and take local environmental action
- Provide local environmental resources and contacts (289kb)
River Murray Waterwatch program
Youth Leadership programs
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River Murray Youth Council (Year 8-12)
In 2002, the River Murray Catchment Board successfully established the River Murray Youth Council. This is a forum for senior students to meet regularly to share ideas and thoughts on how youth can manage the River Murray into the future.
The Youth Council is very much driven by the students with the assistance of encouraging mentors.
The Council is supported by the SA Murray Darling Basin NRM Board, River Murray Waterwatch, DECS, Local Action Planning groups and Monarto Zoological Park.
River Murray Youth Council Aims:
- Raise youth awareness and encourage involvement in our environment
- Empower youth to take action on environmental issues
- Develop a network of youth environmental leaders
- Establish links between schools and natural resource management organisations
- Develop skills of young people to increase employment options
Junior Youth Environment Group (Year 5-7)
The Lower Murray Junior Youth Environment Group is aimed for Year 5-7 students thoughtful the Lower Murray Catchment who are passionate about the environment. It provides hands-on learning in the form of workshops and tours, resulting in the students developing school action plans. There are currently 50 students from 12 schools throughout the Lower Murray involved in the group.
This initial Junior Youth Environment Group forum sets the scene, encourages the students to begin thinking about the issues and provided students with an opportunity to meet others and start forming networks.
During the second and third forum, students learn in depth about their chosen environmental issue and develop tailored school action plans.
The last forum is an opportunity for the students to present the progress of their action plans to the rest of the schools.
The group was established in 2004 and is an initiative of the SA Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board (formerly River Murray Catchment Water Management Board), DECS, Waterwatch and Monarto Zoo.