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Training – SEQ Water Quality Monitoring Database

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Healthy Land and Water is launching a new database which will house all existing and future water quality and environmental monitoring data collected by community and school groups throughout South East Queensland.

And they are providing training to interested volunteers and teachers during July and August 2017.

If you are interested, please register for a session to be held at various locations throughout South East Queensland. Click here for the dates, venues and the links to RSVP.

 

What to bring:

Some computers will be provided to share amongst attendees, however you are also welcome to bring along your own laptop. Lunch will be provided. 

Existing volunteers are requested to bring along all data and equipment calibrations collected since 1st August 2016 for entry at the session.
 

Further info:

If you have any questions please contact either Karen Toms or Nat Parker:

  • Karen Toms: email: [email protected]  or by phone: 0448 069 226
    (please note Karen will be on annual leave and unavailable from 16th June – 10th July)
  • Nat Parker: email: [email protected] or by phone: 0447 789 273
Note: This training and database is supported by Healthy Land and Water through the Regional Landcare Facilitator program supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Programme and Healthy Land and Water, Brisbane City Council, Ipswich City Council, Logan City Council, Redland City Council and Moreton Bay Regional Council.

Want to know more?

You can get involved important work to compile baseline data about fish, aquatic macro-invertebrates, habitat and water quality at one of 12 sites in our catchment. This fascinating and hands-on work will assist decision-making about where effort should be directed in land and water management. Monitoring sessions are held twice a year, in April/May and October/November.  Check out our Creek Health Monitoring Project web page.  You can also email our Secretary for more info at: [email protected]

Picnic in the Forest

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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.

Those clever Kenmore kids!

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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

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Explore the fascinating world of Brisbane’s carmivorous marsupials at Brisbane City Council’s Biodiversity Seminar. It will be held at Kenmore Library on Tuesday evening 11 July.

The event will include:
  • 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.
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Brisbane Intrepid Landcare’s ‘Picnic in the Forest’

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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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  2. visit their website, then:
     
  3. GO SPREAD THE WORD!

The hidden biodiversity in our catchment

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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
   

 Buff-banded Rail
  

 Pale-vented Bush-hen
  

 Spotless Crake 

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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