Environment
Did you know there are wallabies, lyrebirds, monitor lizards and platypus at Gilwell Park, as well as possums, wombats and other creatures? You have to be quiet and observant to see them.
When visiting you may see Kookaburras, Rosellas and many other small birds as well a signs where echidnas have dug or see feed trees where possums and wallabies lick the sap. If you listen you may hear the boobook owl at night calling "Mo-poke", or the cries of the Yellow-tail Black cockatoos amongst other creatures who call.
The natural environment is central to the Scout Program which encourages Scouts to connect with nature, to think about how we interact with the environment and take action to protect it. Details of the “World Scout Environment Program” can be found on the Environment web site - click here to view.
Patrol Activity Camping run two Environmental Camps each ye
ar where Scouts can learn and earn the World Scout Environment Badge (WSEB). Click here to visit PA Camping and then select the Environment Camp from those listed in Events tab , for details.
Gilwell Park's Rubbish Free Policy
To help look after this wonderful environment Gilwell Park has a Rubbish Free Policy (RFP) - meaning what you bring is what you take home. Good hikers do it all the time. We ask you to observe this and other good camping habits so that our environment is a suitable home for all the creatures who live here at Gilwell Park and for us visitors as well.
Some Good camping practices
1. Plan your camp so that any surplus food, packaging, etc, is avoided;
2. Always use established campsites and tracks - please keep vehicles off campsites;
3. Position your tent and eating shelter so that trenching is not necessary;
4. When clearing an area for fires, place the leaf litter in a pile next to a tree ready to scatter back over the bare areas when leaving;
5. Use fire drums or fuel stoves. Please keep fire drums at least 100mm above the ground to look after the soil;
6. Bring firewood with you or collect from areas indicated by Rangers. Even the old dead branches or logs are used for food and shelter by creatures of Gilwell Park;
7. Don't damage any living tree;
8. Please take rubbish and recyclables home with you. Clean, sort and store is better for our creatures than burn, bash and bury (Gilwell Park's Rubbish Free Policy);
9. Camp away from watercourses and creeks and ensure any wastewater is disposed of in thicket areas using suitable wet pit containers;
10. If it is necessary to secure rope to any tree, please use correct bushcraft techniques to limit damage to them. Tying rope tightly around the trunk, or limb with stop the sap flow and kill it;
11. Do the Emu walk over your campsite and collect any piece of rubbish, no matter how small, so that our creatures aren't harmed by it (Gilwell Park's RFP);
12. Make sure all embers are out and cold before scattering ash through thick scrub areas (Gilwell Park ONLY - for other camping areas, where fires are permitted, the CFA want any ashes buried);
13. Stand left over firewood vertically next to a tree ready for next campers;
14. Scatter mounded leaf litter over bare areas before leaving to go home and take your rubbish home with you. 
Thanks for looking after our home, please come again.