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Aerial view of the Abrolhos Islands - Easter Group
2016 - International Year of Pulses
MONTH of JANUARY 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
31
Friday
Saturday
1
New Year’s
Day
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Australia Day
27
28
29
30
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Aerial shot of wetland Coburg Peninsula, Northern Territory
MONTH of FEBRUARY 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
World
Wetlands Day
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
Sea Week
(27 February
to 6 March)
28
29
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Aerial view of Hardy Reef in the Great Barrier Reef
MONTH of MARCH 2016
Australasian Bat Night March to April
Sunday
Monday
Thursday
Friday
1
Business
Clean Up Day
Tuesday
2
Wednesday
3
World Wildlife
Day
4
Schools Clean
Up Day
5
Saturday
6
- National
Groundwater
Awareness
Week (6 to 12
March)
- Clean Up
Australia Day
13
7
8
International
Women’s Day
9
10
11
12
14
15
16
17
National Close
the Gap Day
18
19
Earth Hour
20
21
- International
Day of Forests
- Harmony
Day
22
World Water
Day
23
World
Meteorological
Day
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
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The Main Penitentiary Building at the Port Arthur Historic Site (Part of the World Heritage Listed Australian Convict Sites)
MONTH of APRIL 2016
Australasian Bat Night March to April
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Australian
Heritage
Week (16 to
24 April)
17
18
World
Heritage Day
19
20
21
22
- Earth Day
- Int’l Mother
Earth Day
23
24
25
ANZAC Day
26
27
28
29
30
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Birdlife alongside yellow Water lagoon in Kakadu National Park (World Heritage Listed Site)
MONTH of MAY 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
Int’l
Composting
Awareness
Week (1 to 7
May)
8
2
3
4
5
6
7
9
National
Volunteer
Week (9 to 15
May)
10
OzWater’16
(10 to 12 May)
11
12
13
14
World
Migratory Bird
Day
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
World Fish
Migration Day
22
Int’l Day for
Biological
Diversity
23
World Turtle
Day
24
25
26
National Sorry
Day
27
National
Reconciliation
Week (27 May
to 3 June)
28
29
30
31
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© North Beach from Kims Lookout, Lord Howe Island Group (World Heritage Listed Site)
MONTH of JUNE 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
World
Environment
Day
6
7
8
World Oceans
Day
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
World Day to
Combat
Desertification
and Drought
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Red Nose Day
27
28
29
30
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Birdlife alongside yellow Water Lagoon in Kakadu National Park (World Heritage Listed Site)
MONTH of JULY 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
31
National Tree
Day
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
NAIDOC
Week (3 to 12
July)
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
World
Population
Day
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
Schools Tree
Day
30
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Lily pads on the creek at the Indigenous workers camp site near Truscott Air Field on the Anjo Peninsula
Department of the Environment
MONTH of AUGUST 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
Jeans for
Genes Day
6
7
8
9
Int’l Day for
World
Indigenous
Peoples
10
11
12
Int’l Youth Day
13
Science Week
(13 to 21
August)
14
15
16
17
18
19
World
Humanitarian
Day
20
21
22
Keep Australia
Beautiful
Week (22 to
28 August)
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
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© Wattle growing at Lake Clifton in the Peel Yalgorup System Ramsar site
MONTH of SEPTEMBER 2016
National Biodiversity Month
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
National
Wattle Day
2
3
4
5
National
Landcare
Week (5 to 11
September)
6
7
National
Threatened
Species Day
8
9
10
11
- Sustainable
House Day
- National
Bilby Day
12
13
14
15
17
18
19
20
21
22
- World CarFree Day
- World
Maritime Day
16
Int’l Day for
the
Preservation
of the Ozone
Layer
23
25
26
27
28
29
30
24
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Kangaroos at the Mambray Creek Camping Reserve in Mount Remarkable National Park
the Environment
Sunday
MONTH of OCTOBER 2016
Monday
30
31
2
3
World Habitat
Day
9
10
16
17
Bird Week and
Aussie
Backyard Bird
Count (17 to
23 October)
24
United Nations
Day
23
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
4
- World Animal
Day
- World Space
Week (4 to 10
October)
11
5
6
7
8
12
Ride 2 Work
Day
13
Int’l Day for
Disaster
Reduction
14
15
18
19
20
21
22
25
26
27
World Day for
Audiovisual
Heritage
28
29
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Fish of the Great Barrier Reef
MONTH of NOVEMBER 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
National
Recycling
Week (7 to 13
November)
8
9
10
11
National Walk
to Work Day
12
13
14
15
16
International
GIS Day
17
18
19
20
21
World
Fisheries Day
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
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View from the start of the Grand Canyon Walking Trail in the Blue Mountains (World Heritage Listed Site)
MONTH of DECEMBER 2016
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
Int’l Day of
People with
Disability
4
5
Int’l Volunteer
Day
6
7
8
9
10
Human Rights
Day
11
Int’l Mountain
Day
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31