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Aerial view of the Abrolhos Islands - Easter Group
2015 is the International Year of Soils
MONTH of JANUARY 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
New Year’s
Day
1
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
31
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Aerial shot of wetland Coburg Peninsula, Northern Territory
MONTH of FEBRUARY 2015
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
Business
Clean Up Day
25
26
27
Schools Clean
Up Day
28
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Aerial view of Hardy Reef in the Great Barrier Reef
MONTH of MARCH 2015
Australasian Bat Night March and April
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
Clean Up
Australia Day
Sea Week 1-7
March
2
3
World Wildlife
Day
4
5
6
7
8
- International
Women’s Day
- Ground
Water Week
8 – 14 March
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
National Close
the Gap Day
20
22
World Water
Day
23
World
Meteorological
Day
24
25
26
27
21
- International
Day of Forests
-Harmony Day
- Farewell
Shorebirds 21
March – 19
April
28
Earth Hour
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 2015
Australasian Bat Night March and April
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
Good Friday
4
5
Easter Sunday
6
Easter
Monday
7
8
9
10
National Youth
Week 10 – 19
April
11
Australian
Heritage
Week 11 – 19
April
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
World
Heritage Day
19
20
21
22
- Earth Day
- International
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 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
31
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
International
Composting
Awareness
Week 4 to 10
May
5
6
7
8
9
International
Migratory Bird
Day
10
11
National
Volunteer
Week 11 -17
May
12
OzWater’15
12 – 14 May
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
International
Day for
Biological
Diversity
23
24
25
26
National Sorry
Day
27
National
Reconciliation
Week 27 May
– 3 June
28
Australia’s
Biggest
Morning Tea
29
30
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© North Beach from Kims Lookout, Lord Howe Island Group (World Heritage Listed Site)Dnorth
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MONTH of JUNE 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
World
Environment
Day
6
7
8
World Oceans
Day
9
11
12
13
14
15
Global Wind
Day
16
10
ABARES
Strathalbyn
Regional
Outlook
Conference
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 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
NAIDOC
Week 7 - 14
8
9
10
11
World
Population
Day
12
13
14
15
Global Wind
Day
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Schools Tree
Day
25
26
National Tree
Day
27
28
29
30
31
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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 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
30
31
1
Jeans for
Genes Day
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
International
Youth Day
13
14
15
National
Science Week
15 – 23
August
16
17
18
19
World
Humanitarian
Day
20
21
World
Fisheries Day
22
23
World Water
Week 23 – 28
August
24
Keep Australia
Beautiful
Week 24 – 30
August
25
26
27
28
29
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© Wattle growing at Lake Clifton in the Peel Yalgorup System Ramsar site
MONTH of SEPTEMBER 2015
National Biodiversity Month
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
National
Wattle Day
2
3
4
5
6
7
National
Threatened
Species Day
8
9
10
11
12
13
- Bushcare’s
Major Day Out
- Sustainable
House Day
- National
Bilby Day
14
15
16
International
Day for the
Preservation
of the Ozone
Layer
17
18
19
20
21
22
World Carfree
Day
23
24
25
26
World
Maritime Day
27
28
29
30
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Kangaroos at the Mambray Creek Camping Reserve in Mount Remarkable National Park
artment of the Environment
MONTH of OCTOBER 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
National
Organic Week
1 - 10 October
2
3
4
- World Animal
Day
- World Space
Week 4 – 10
October
11
5
World Habitat
Day
6
7
8
9
10
12
13
Int’l Day for
Disaster
Reduction
14
15
16
17
18
National
Water Week
18 – 24
October
19
Bird Week and
Aussie
Backyard Bird
Count 19 – 25
October
20
21
22
23
24
United Nations
Day
25
26
27
World Day for
Audiovisual
Heritage
28
29
30
31
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Fish of the Great Barrier Reef
MONTH of NOVEMBER 2015
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
2
3
4
5
6
Int’l Day for
Preventing the
Exploitation of
the
Environment
in Conflict
7
8
9
National
Recycling
Week 9 – 15
November
10
11
12
13
Walk to Work
Day
14
15
16
17
18
International
GIS Day
19
20
21
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 2015
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
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