Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Garden

REMINDER: Join the Restoring the Bounty team for a community planting day at Ball Bay Reserve! 🌱

📅 Tomorrow, Saturday 13 June
⏰ 8:00am–11:00am

Everyone is welcome to help restore this special area. 🌿

Morning tea will be provided. ☕🍪

Please bring along a hat, water bottle and some gloves for the morning!

We'd love to see you there! 😊

✨ Reminder! Science at Sunset: From Fossil to Art

Join us for an engaging info session exploring lost worlds and prehistoric island life. Hear from leading experts in palaeontology, conservation, and museum curation as they uncover the island’s hidden past.

📅 Tomorrow, Wednesday 10 June, 5pm
📍 Knowledge & Learning Centre (KLC)
All community members and visitors welcome!

📸 A prehuman reconstruction of Lord Howe Island. Julian P. Hume

🌺 Happy Bounty Day! 🌺

Wishing all Pitcairn descendants and the wider Norfolk Island community a very special 170th Bounty Day celebration – we hoep orl yorlye haw a wonderful dieh en iit swiit (we hope you all have a wonderful day and eat delicious food)! 💛

Recently, our Junior Rangers took part in a special cultural experience, making a Niau broom alongside local cultural practitioners. They learnt about sustainable harvesting, cut fronds, stripped midribs, and carefully connected all 365 pieces to create their own broom – a beautiful skill passed down through generations.

Dem even sing along to Kath King’s “swippen aa raenda lorng f’ myse niau broom” 😊

Activities like this are so important, they keep culture alive, strengthen connections to tradition, and help the next generation stay connected to place and identity. When knowledge is shared and practised, it continues to live on.

💚 Haw a wonderful Bounty Day, orl yorlye (everyone)!

Join the Restoring the Bounty team for a community planting day at Ball Bay Reserve! 🌱

📅 Saturday 13 June
⏰ 8:00am–11:00am

Everyone is welcome to help restore this special area. 🌿

Morning tea will be provided. ☕🍪

Please bring along a hat, water bottle and some gloves for the morning!

We'd love to see you there! 😊

✨ Science at Sunset: From Fossil to Art

Join us for an engaging info session exploring lost worlds and prehistoric island life. Hear from leading experts in palaeontology, conservation, and museum curation as they uncover the island’s hidden past.

📅 Wednesday 10 June, 5pm
📍 Knowledge & Learning Centre (KLC)
All community members and visitors welcome!

📸 A prehuman reconstruction of Lord Howe Island. Julian P. Hume

Recent reef health surveys show Norfolk Island’s inshore reefs are continuing to experience environmental pressures affecting reef health and resilience.

Between September 2025 and February 2026, monitoring identified declining indicators of reef resilience within the KAVHA catchment of Norfolk Marine Park. 🪸

Severe rain and flooding events throughout 2025 and early 2026 increased land-based pollution and run-off into the marine park, exposing reefs to prolonged sedimentation, freshwater inflows and elevated nutrient levels. These impacts were followed by prolonged heat stress and coral bleaching. 🌧️☀️

Ongoing monitoring helps Parks Australia and partners better understand changing reef conditions and inform future management and conservation priorities.

Read the full report on the Parks Australia website (link in comments).

Did you know you can easily carry all the information you need for your visit to Norfolk Island National Park right on your phone?

Download our official app to explore scenic walking trails, track distances, check difficulty ratings, and much more. (link in comments)

The best part? If you download the information beforehand, you can access everything offline.

NATIVE PLANT SALE PRICES CONTINUE! 🌿🌱

Plants only $5 each or $80 for 20 plants.
Native plant nursery at Bishop Patterson Road, off Anson Bay Road is open every Friday 9am – 12pm.
Please return all pots to HQ or the nursery.

ONLY WHILE STOCKS LAST!

Plants are produced by our wonderful volunteers as part of the Flora Force community nursery program, in partnership between Norfolk Island Regional Council - NIRC and Norfolk Island National Park.

Reminder: Science at Sunset is back tomorrow!

Join Dr Finella Dawlings, Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Newcastle as she presents her research into refining the management of rodents and cats in the Norfolk Island National Park, by investigating population responses to management actions, rodent movement, and diet of cats and rats.

🗓️ When: Tuesday 26 May 5pm
🏛️ Where: Knowledge and Learning Centre (KLC)

All community members and visitors are invited to the next Science at Sunset information session:
Climate change adaptation and Norfolk Island National Park.

Join Dr Finella Dawlings, Postdoctoral Fellow with the The University of Newcastle, Australia as she presents her research into refining the management of rodents and cats in the Norfolk Island National Park, by investigating population responses to management actions, rodent movement, and diet of cats and rats.

🗓️ When: Tuesday 26 May 5pm
🏛️ Where: Knowledge and Learning Centre (KLC)