Location: Karawatha Forest
Type: Event
Organiser: Brisbane Intrepid Landcare
Contact: Matthew Townsend: [email protected]
Brisbane Intrepid Landcare is now an official group! Join us for a day of fun activities, a picnic, bushwalk and networking with other young people. For more info,click here.
Kenmore State High Environmental Projects Showcase
Location: Kenmore Library
Type: Event
Organiser: Kenmore State High School
Contact: 3327 1587
Click here for more info.
Those clever Kenmore kids!
Keep Friday afternoon 23 June free!
Here is a window of opportunity to view Kenmore State High School’s showcase of environmental projects at Kenmore Library from 1.30 to 2.30pm.
So stop your shopping for a while and come and be inspired by just how environmentally aware these Year 9 students are!
The quality of the showcase is testament to the fact that our environmental future is the hands of some very competent and talented young leaders.
For more info, email: [email protected] or phone 3327 1587.
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Brisbane Biodiversity Seminar at Kenmore
- a live showing of Brisbane’s carnivorous marsupial species by Martin Fingland
- a presentation by Thomas Mutton (QUT) on the newest discoveries of Antechinus in Queensland including the Buff-footed Antechinus found in Brisbane’s western suburbs
- a talk by Land for Wildlife partner Rob Nitschke about the rarely-seen Brush-tailed Phascogales nesting on his property.
Brisbane Intrepid Landcare’s ‘Picnic in the Forest’
Do you know someone aged between 16 and 35 who is interested in fun land care activities and networking with other young people?
Then you’d better tell them that Intrepid Landcare has arrived in Brisbane!
Intrepid Landcare is not your usual bushcare group. It is an adventurous organisation that empowers young people to lead on stuff that matters to them. It is already highly effective in other parts of Australia, repairing the environment, combating climate change to leave our land in better condition for future generations.
To celebrate Intrepid Landcare’s arrival in Brisbane, they will be holding their first event – a Picnic in the Forest – on Saturday 2nd July at Karawatha Forest, starting at 9.30am.
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- visit their website, then:
- GO SPREAD THE WORD!
Brisbane Biodiversity Seminar: Carnivorous Marsupials of Brisbane
Location: Kenmore Library
Type: Event
Organiser: Brisbane City Council
Contact: 07 3403 8888 or email [email protected]
BCC Workshop: Rapid Appraisal of Riparian Conditions
Location: Downfall Creek Bushland Centre, 815 Rode Rd, Chermside West
Type: Workshop
Organiser: Brisbane City Council
Contact: Michael Thorley: [email protected]
Free event for catchment group, Habitat Brisbane and Land for Wildlife members only. This is a catered event.
The hidden biodiversity in our catchment
Hidden away in the waterways and grasses of our Moggill Creek Catchment are some fascinating birds belonging to the little-known group of Crakes and Rails.
There is very limited public awareness of crakes and rails in the waterways of South-East Queensland in general. Activities such as grass mowing and creek dredging have significantly destroyed their habitat, without replacement.
Achieving the optimal balance between revegetation, weed control, public amenity and sustaining native birds and plants that already exist in our waterways is not easy.
Within our own catchment, crakes and rails include the Lewins Rail, Buff-banded Rail, Pale-vented Bush-hen and Spotless Crake. The following pictures were taken locally by Ed Frazer.
Lewins Rail
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Buff-banded Rail
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Pale-vented Bush-hen
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Spotless Crake
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A recent article published in the Land for Wildlife newsletter lists some strategies that can be applied to protect the habitat of these wonderful birds. It is a helpful resource/reference for protecting the wonderful—but, in this case, hidden—biodiversity that presently exists in our creeks, swamps and riversides.
Although perhaps giving the impression that these birds are common, permanent habitat in our suburbs is scarce and many waterways are no longer suitable for these fascinating birds.
Brisbane City Council’s Conservation Action Statement on Crakes & Rails (2010) also provides some interesting facts and figures.
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A weed beating beetle!
Over the last 5 to 10 years, a small, brown beetle known as the ‘Celtis Leaf Beetle’ (Menippus cynicus) has started causing noticeable damage to the young leaves of the highly invasive introduced weed-tree Chinese Celtis (Celtis sinensis) around South-East Queensland.
The Celtis Leaf Beetle is native to coastal, central Queensland and we are unsure whether it has moved by itself to south-east Queensland, or if it was transported by people.
Regardless, it is here in our catchment now and we can only hope that it reduces the vigour of Chinese Celtis!
Photo courtesy of BioSecurity Qld
Nature Journalling
Location: Biami Yumba Park, end of Fig Tree Pocket Road
Type: Workshop
Organiser: Cubberla-Witton Catchments Network Inc
Contact: www.cwcn.org.au or 0407 583 441
This event is run by the Cubberla-Witton Catchments Network Inc. For more info, please contact them or view the flyer.