Tag: plants
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SOLD OUT – Redwood Park Madeira Weed Challenge
SOLD OUT – 31 January 2025 Fifteen volunteers are invited to clear a half acre of rampant, smothering Madeira Vine. Redwood Park is home to many vulnerable species and has great biodiversity. Friends of the Escarpment volunteers are unable to bring this particular area under control on their own. They need 4 hours of your…
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The Escarpment Park Friend – Dec 2024
This issue includes news about new membership features on the website, work on reducing Cat’s Claw Creeper at Highfields Falls, local native plants, interesting archival material, a study on aquatic insects in streams, adoption of Williams Park at Highfields by FEP, and farewell to Coral Sharrock who worked thousands of hours on several parks.
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TRC shelved TLPI – DDEC response
Darling Downs Environment Council has sent a message in response to the Toowoomba Regional Council decision to shelve the Temporary Local Planning Instrument intended to protect local ecology. DDEC is inviting citizens interested in protecting our local environment to join in action by posting photos of native animals and significant trees. Read the PDF message…
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Weed spotters November bulletin
The Weed Spotters Network Queensland is a citizen science collaboration between the Queensland Herbarium, the Department of Primary Industries (formerly the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries)and local governments with funding support from the Land Protection Fund. It produces a weed spotters bulletin on the latest activities of the network. The November 2024 edition is now available.
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Act against invasive garden weeds
The Invasive Species Council is campaigning to reduce the environmental problems caused by escaped garden weeds. Efforts being made to keep native bush in good order are being constantly undermined by foreign invasive weeds, innocently planted by gardeners, escaping with the help of birds or their own aggressive profusion. The ISC has crafted a request…
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Toowoomba Region Koala Habitat Project
The TOOWOOMBA REGION KOALA HABITAT PROJECT has just secured another unexpected supply of koala tree tubestock seedlings – possibly the last for this planting window ??? We expect further guards and stakes to be delivered from Aussie Environmental at Yandina Wednesday, 30 October. Free seedlings, stakes & guards will be available from Mt Lofty, Toowoomba on Thursday, 31 October –…
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Microforest survey
Microforest Sentiment Survey. Daniel James, a student at UTS, is studying micro forests and has requested FEP members assistance in completing a survey on micro forests https://forms.gle/nJJA7R8nnzLabvhr9
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Home microforests basics
This online event will be hosted by Edwina Robinson Tue 17th Sep 2024, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm AEST Register online What’s on offer Making a home microforest is easy when you know how. Your home microforest can be as small as a car space! I’ve made a bushy slice of paradise in my front garden…
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14th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference
The Australian Network for Plant Conservation will hold the 14th Australasian Plant Conservation Conference (APCC14) in Toowoomba from 13-17 October 2024 at the Oaks Toowoomba Hotel. The conference theme recognises how the many Little Things that we do – in science, land management, and community-based conservation – can grow into the Big Things that can save our biodiversity heritage. APCC14 will…