Golden Secateurs Award

Every year the City of Hobart recognises an outstanding Bushcare volunteer who has made a positive and lasting contribution to the conservation of Hobart's bushland reserves and who inspires others to do the same.

These conservation heroes are given a Bushcare Legend Golden Secateurs Award and go into our Golden Secateurs Hall of Fame.

2024 award winner

Champion in name, bush champion by nature. Bruce Champion, a long-term member of Friends of Knocklofty Bushcare was awarded our inaugural Golden Secateurs Award in recognition of his contribution to community through Bushcare.

He originally joined to share his plant knowledge and help the group navigate weeds and native species and stayed with Bushcare for 25 years!

About the awards

The awards began in 2008 and our first Golden Secateurs Legend was Antony Ault, a stalwart of the Friends of Knocklofty Bushcare group who was recognised for his role in helping to rid Knocklofty Reserve of gorse and other environmental weeds.

Antony has always been meticulous about documenting the work carried out at Knocklofty Reserve, a skill now considered best practice for managing the health of our bushland reserves.

Bushcare will always be deeply grateful for the work of its Bushcare Legends.