The Cooks River Alliance has partnered with the Georges River Environmental Education Centre (GREEC) to deliver the Cooks River Rescue School Stormwater Action Plan Program. The now completed program involved 19 schools across the Cooks River Catchment, leaving a...
The Cooks River Alliance is partnering with the Georges River Environmental Education Centre (GREC) to deliver the Cooks River Rescue School Stormwater Action Plan Program. Want your school to join? Fill out the EOI application form – limited places...
Help us capture Cooks River history by sharing your river stories during covid-19! Humans can’t live without the environment. But with covid restrictions easing, how many people will remain connected to our precious patch along the Cooks? We want...
This program has now finished, please see other ways to be involved in helping the Cooks River via the “Help the River” section in the top menu.
The Cooks River Alliance welcomes funding commitments for urban rivers and waterways and calls on all political parties to prioritise restoring urban rivers and waterways ahead of the State and Federal elections this year. Cooks River Alliance Chair and...
David Noble began taking photos of birds on the Cooks River about five years ago. The retired science teacher and Marrickville local shares these on his personal blog – http://www.david-noble.net/blog/ – which also contains other stunning images capturing his...
Professor Ian Tyrrell has spent the last 25 years working on a Cooks River history book. Recently published, River Dreams: the people and landscapes of the Cooks River, paints a vivid picture of life along the river since colonisation. Significantly, the...
The winner of the 2017 GreenWay Open Art Prize is Jody Graham who has won a $5,000 prize package for her work ‘Drawn from Discarded’. The Cooks River Small Sculpture Prize was awarded to artist Hannah Carroll Harris for...
Landing Lights Wetland Restoration Bayside Council has recently completed a 3 year intensive on ground restoration project at Landing Lights wetland. As part of the Cooks River Alliance On-ground Works Program, the Alliance provided funding and assistance to Bayside...
There are over 500,000 residents living and/or working in the Cooks River catchment which covers an area of around 100km2. Some people live right by the river and some not at all. But regardless of proximity to the river,...