NAIDOC Week July 3 – 10
What is your group doing this NAIDOC Week?? National NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia to celebrate and recognise the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians...
Wildlife Emergency Response Units
Wildcare Australia Inc volunteers responded to the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast bushfires in September 2019 which highlighted the need to be fully prepared to respond to future bushfires and other natural disaster events. During the 2019 bushfires, Wildcare...
Wildlife Fodder Plantation
Wildcare Australia Inc The 2019 bushfires, other natural events such as flooding and prolonged drought, and increased development in South-east Queensland has significantly reduced accessible natural areas for wildlife volunteers to source high quality native food to...
Peregian Beach Fire Zone Ecological Repair Project – Priority Actions
Noosa & District Landcare Group Intense canopy fires and the complete destruction of canopy trees in 2019 had allowed the proliferation of significant vine, grass and shrub weeds to occur at several locations in the Peregian Beach and Weyba Downs vicinity. The...
Protecting Springbrook National Park
Springbrook WeedBusters Regrowth from the 2019 bushfires shows how vulnerable the Springbrook National Park is to weed incursion. Springbrook WeedBusters is a relatively new group focussed on weeding activities and landowner education. With almost $20,000 from the...
Understories: Restoring ecological communities in the Tallebudgera Valley
Tallebudgera Valley Nature-Culture Alliance In 2019 the Tallebudgera Valley was inundated with smoke and several (smaller) fires broke out raising concerns for local residents. ‘Understories’ is taking a bottom-up community approach using the arts to foster natural...
Cooroibah & North Shore Fire Zone Ecological Repair Project
Noosa & District Landcare Group Inc With $50,000 from the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Program, Noosa & District Landcare Group have worked to enhance Cooroibah and Noosa Northshore Fire Zones through weed treatments and revegetation. This project was...
Artificial Hollows for Greater Gliders in Nerang National Park
Friends of Nerang National Park Friends of Nerang National Park have used $32,000 from the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Program to mitigate loss of hollows for the Greater Gliders in Nerang National Park. Greater gliders (Petauroides volans) are one of the Gold...
Nature Refuges of Yamahra Creek’s Feral Animal and Habitat Augmentation Project
Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) Bulimbah and Bartopia Nature Refuges, in the headwaters of the Yamahra Creek, is over 200 hectares of privately owned land which borders the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area Mt Barney National...
Surveys and Public Education for the Spotted-tailed Quoll in South East Queensland
Quoll Society of Australia The spotted-tailed quoll, our largest marsupial carnivore, is in serious trouble from destruction of its habitat, predation by cats and foxes, and the severe bushfires of 2019/20, quolls are on the verge of disappearing from Queensland...
Gold Coast Hinterland Rainforest Fire Protection Trails
Austinville Landcare The Gold Coast and Hinterland, has historically been considered relatively safe from severe bushfires. In 2019, for the first time in recorded history, fire penetrated deep into rainforest areas of Lamington National Park. With climate change it...
Assessing and Enhancing Fire-Effected Glider Habitat through Innovative Landcare-led Surveys and On-ground Action
Noosa & District Landcare Noosa and District Landcare were successful in obtaining a Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grant for a glider survey and restoration project. Historical records indicate the existence of several Greater Gliders in the fire zones and a...
The Great Cane Toad Bust
Watergum and Clarence Landcare Clarence Landcare in NSW and Watergum have come together to deliver the Great Cane Toad Bust with funds from a Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grant. Recent research has shown a boom in cane toad numbers and an accelerated geographical...
Strengthening resilience: planting natives and managing invasives
Mooloolah River Waterwatch and Landcare Mooloolah River Waterwatch and Landcare are planning to enhance the resilience of the Critically Endangered Lowland subtropical rainforest with over $44,000 of funding from the Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants program....
Hollow Log Home Nest box replacement
Coolum and North Shore Coast Care Coolum and North Shore Coast Care (CaNSCC) is excited to report that 21 Hollow Log Home nesting boxes have been installed between Maroochy River and Stumers Creek in Conservation Reserves and Bushland Parks in addition to the existing...