Parramatta Hills - Meeting & talk: Ferns of the southern Sydney Basin

Don’t miss this meeting -  an outstanding speaker, as well as an outstanding afternoon tea!

Dr Kevin Mills is a botanist and ecologist, and has lived in the Illawarra for over 40 years. He has studied the region’s rainforests for many years and is currently working on various projects in the region, including studies of all offshore islands on the South Coast, and various rare plant surveys. His most recent work is a review and field study of the ferns of the south coast, which he is about to publish as a book on the ferns of the south coast. He has authored or co-authored several books on plants including Native Trees of Central Illawarra, Rainforests of the Illawarra District, and Native Trees of the NSW South Coast.

Kevin is continuing his rainforest studies of the Illawarra and of Norfolk Island, where he is a regular visitor, and on which he has also written extensively. He is involved in the rehabilitation of habitat on the Five Islands Nature Reserve off Port Kembla, and the regeneration of rainforest at the Minnamurra Rainforest Centre in Budderoo National Park. He is a long-time member of the South Coast Regional Advisory Committee for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, and is currently it’s chair.

Members’ meeting and Christmas afternoon tea

All welcome.

Enquiries to Jennifer Farrer apsparrahills@gmail.com

Dr Mills. Photo supplied.

Home page shows Adiantum hispidulum. Photo Alan Fairley.