On 6 June 2021, the Friends of Sturt River and the City of Holdfast Bay held a community planting event for World Environment Day.

More than 70 people attended and helped to plant 2,000 native Adelaide plants. These included new trees, shrubs, grasses, wildflowers and climbers. The variety of life forms gives our native wildlife lots of habitat choices, whether they need nectar for food, or plants on which to lay eggs, or plants in which to hide from predators, or even build nests. The community planting day was a wonderful event with lots of information available for volunteers, food and coffee, and some visiting wildlife ambassadors. We would like to express our gratitude to the Friends of Sturt River who organised the event and did a great job.

Just before the event we also had seven next boxes installed: four for native microbats; two for small parrots and one for pardalotes. It can take several years for nest boxes to be inhabited by the target species so we don't expect too much just yet.

The Friends of Sturt River will continue to take care of these new borders, with sporadic weeding events at which local residents and other volunteers are most welcome.