WACMN leads this event in partnership with the WA Landcare Network (WALN), with sponsorship from the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage and the WA State NRM Program.
2026 Regional Learning Exchange
Learning from stewardship in practice
How does coastal & marine stewardship work across different places, organisations and scales — and what makes it possible to work collectively?
Join us for the 2026 Regional Learning Exchange, bringing together six learning stories from across Western Australia to explore how stewardship is organised, supported, and delivered in practice. The stories look at the roles of place, governance, population, funding, and organisational capacity, as well as how activities and monitoring inform decisions and contribute to social, economic, environmental, and cultural outcomes.
Following the presentations, roundtable discussions will create space to share experiences, explore what helps or hinders stewardship, and discuss what we can learn from different approaches across WA. The insights from the Exchange will contribute to the Stewardship Practice Playbook— a live, evolving resource that continues to grow through shared learning and practice.
Date: 8.30 am – 12.30 pm, 9 October 2026
Venue: Bunbury Dolphin Discovery Centre
Lot 556 Koombana Drive, Bunbury WA 6230
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Six learning stories – six ways of building shared practice
Across very different places and contexts, these stories show the many ways people are working together to put stewardship into practice.
Esperance Tjaltjraak Boodja Park
Place-based restoration through local government, Traditional Owner partnership and staged community engagement.
Perth NRM
A metropolitan NRM model that connects major resilience funding with local groups and on-ground delivery.
Care for Hedland
A grassroots group evolving into a peer mentor and community-led science innovator.
Peron Naturaliste Partnership
A regional local-government partnership using drone skills, shared monitoring and decision-ready data.
NACC NRM
A regional connector and facilitator linking dispersed communities, programs, clusters and capability.
Environs Kimberley
A regional not-for-profit that convenes partners while directly delivering long-term seagrass monitoring and mapping.
Who should attend?
People working across government, community, research and science, as well as local communities involved in, supporting or curious about coastal and marine stewardship. Come along, share your experience and learn from stewardship in practice across WA.
