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  • Cranley Escarpment – Have your say

    Cranley Escarpment – Have your say

    Toowoomba Regional Council invites you to Have Your Say on Cranley Escarpment Park!  Cranley Escarpment is a large bushland reserve that offers recreation, open space and bushwalking trails.  Upgrades have been scheduled by Council to meet local park recreation standards, to activate and enhance the park area through minor embellishments that provide opportunity for social…

  • An evening with the Koalas

    An evening with the Koalas

    The Protect Trees campaign supported by Darling Downs Environment Council is promoting a special event in support of local wildlife. Event Details:📅 Date: Friday 17th of October 6pm📍 Location: 1a Heller St Rangeville at the Buru Dain Dan Eco Hut Tickets: $10 (kids under 12 free)

  • Toowoomba Bird Observers Sep 25

    Toowoomba Bird Observers Sep 25

    Bird of the month is the Grey-crowned Babbler. Read reports of recent outings and check details for upcoming events. There are details of the annual census (October 25 – 31) which will use this check list.

  • Land for Wildlife August Topics

    Land for Wildlife August Topics

    Land for Wildlife South-East Queensland has published a newsletter. Topics include:

  • DDEC October News

    DDEC October News

    Darling Downs Environment Council has published its October newsletter. It includes news about the recent Connecting Culture with Country event, current campaign activities, and upcoming events.

  • Microforest Open Day

    Microforest Open Day

    Your chance to experience a Microforest – an urban contribution to creating a native habitat stepping stone in the landscape by planting what was once there. Toowoomba’s Friends of Escarpment Parks invite you to celebrate the success of their Hancock Street Park MICROFOREST at an OPEN DAY Saturday 4th October. What an amazing accomplishment https://fep.org.au/projects/microforest-project/ Join…

  • Hancock Street Microforest

    Hancock Street Microforest

    The signs are up promoting the Microforest Open Day which will be held on Saturday, 4 October from 10 am to 2 pm. As the project evolved from inception in 2022 to final planting in 2024 and the upcoming celebration the story was recorded by Ann Alcock in a blog. The material from that blog…

  • The Escarpment Park Friend – Sep 2025

    The Escarpment Park Friend – Sep 2025

    This issue of the FEP Newsletter has annual reports from each of the parks where volunteers work and a summary of database records of hours worked. Other content includes a brief summary of Greg Spearritt’s presentation about mistletoes at the AGM, details of the upcoming Microforest Open Day, a piece about fungi, accounts of bushland…

  • Grassroots Environmental Grants

    The Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation is offering grant funding under the Grassroots Environmental Grants Program. Grant funding is available to eligible recipients to support projects aimed at protecting and preserving Queensland’s natural and built environment.  These small grants are designed to encourage community engagement and focus on delivering impactful local environmental initiatives.…

  • Connecting Culture to Country

    Connecting Culture to Country

    Darling Downs Environment Council is hosting this event at Toowoomba City Library on Tuesday, 16 September 6 pm – 8 pm with support from Toowoomba First Nations Allies.