Swan Bay Environment Association

The Swan Bay Environment Association recognises the importance of Swan Bay as a wetland of national and international importance and is actively working to ensure the area remains in a natural and unspoilt state.

The Association encourages passive recreational and educational use of the Bay. Some examples of the Association's activities are:

• promoting the appropriate use of Swan Bay
• propagation of indigenous plants
• planting indigenous plants around the foreshore
• preparing submissions relating to the protection of Swan Bay
• collecting resources for a library on Swan Bay at the Marine Discovery Centre
• responding to any issues which affect Swan Bay and its catchment area. This includes ensuring any development of adjacent areas is consistent with the values of the Bay
• producing newsletters
• holding committee meetings, open to all members, every two months.

The Swan Bay Environment Association is actively involved in a unique network with other volunteer groups and agencies whose broader role is to  protect Swan Bay through community education and facilitation of on-ground works on both private and public lands within the Swan Bay catchment - the Bellarine Catchment Network (formerly, the Swan Bay Integrated Catchment Management Committee).