Tag: plants

  • Habitat restoration

    Habitat restoration

    This piece about habitat restoration published in The Conversation may interest FEP members engaged in similar work. Lockyer Uplands Catchments Inc (LUCI) is one of the examples discussed.

  • DDEC News – Feb 25

    DDEC News – Feb 25

    The Darling Downs Environment Council newsletter for February 2025 has been circulated. It has information about the Keep Toowoomba Cool campaign, managing the rollout of renewables, maintaining the Withcott Koala trees and more.

  • LUCI Update

    LUCI Update

    Lockyer Uplands Catchments Inc (LUCI) quarterly newsletter for January 2025 includes articles on these topics:

  • SOLD OUT – Redwood Park Madeira Weed Challenge

    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…

  • The Escarpment Park Friend – Dec 2024

    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.

  • DDEC News – Feb 25

    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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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 –…

  • 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