The City of Greater Geelong encompasses a unique, diverse and beautiful environment. Whilst rich in natural wonders our environment is also highly modified and showing significant signs of the damages that have been wrought through years of unsustainable development and environmental degradation.

Bounded by Corio Bay and the Barrabool Hills, the City of Greater Geelong has extensive basalt plain grasslands to the north extending to the landmark peaks of the You Yangs and the Brisbane Ranges. In the southeast the undulating hills of the Bellarine Peninsula extend through to coastal dunes.

A municipality of contrasts with coastal, rural, urban and natural environments defining a landscape rich in diversity, including many rare and unique native flora and fauna communities. The City of Greater Geelong has an approximate area of 1,300 square kilometres and a population of 190 000.

Geelong's response to managing and protecting the local environment assets, that our social and environmental capital depends upon, is the Environmental Management Strategy - Local Agenda 21. The Council adopted strategy, developed with considerable participation by the community, documents the condition of our environment and charts actions to relieve threatening processes, protect and conserve our unique environment and promote ecologically sustainable development.