Open Spaces 2023 | Biodiversity in Urban Spaces - Monina Gilbey

The Full Landscape

Our first speaker at our Open Spaces event was Monina Gilbey who is a garden designer, and educator as well as the Biodiversity Manager at Glenelg Golf Club. In her presentation Monina went over the importance of biodiversity in urban areas, and golf courses, current conservation projects and initiatives that are being undertaken at the golf course, water management practices, and much much more. Monina is passionate about Adelaide’s local flora and fauna and the contribution that golf courses make to urban biodiversity. Working with the Glenelg Golf team, Monina, a relative newcomer to golf, has helped to raise the national environmental profile of the club and has won multiple awards. In 2022, Monina was co-winner of the Claude Crockford Environment and Sustainability Award – Monina is the second woman to win the award in 24 years. Monina was instrumental in the club becoming a finalist in the biodiversity category of the 2023 National Banksia Sustainability Awards. .......................................................................................................... Find Monina & Glenelg Golf Club linkedin.com/company/glenelg-golf-club/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/monina-gilbey-477b3123/