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More Landcare News from Ethos |
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Sunday, 01 October 2006 06:00 |
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Our efforts to resource local landcare initiatives continue, with a recent grant application submitted to Beaudesert Shire Council as part of its Community Environmental Assistance Program. Nearby Timbarra Landcare has recently been successful in obtaining funding from this program. Ethos has been assisting with the planning and implementation of work on the Timbarra site on Back Creek
which is upstream from the Ethos Centre site. In the near future we hope to connect rainforest restoration activities along several hundred metres of Back Creek Reserve, creating an important habitat linkage and restoring degraded rainforest.
Informal volunteer programs involving tree planting and manual weed control will start in October. We have areas in Back Creek Reserve prepared and local rainforest plants are in our nursery. Please contact us to find out when the next volunteer day is on.
This month will see the completion of our holding nursery adjacent to the Ethos Centre site at Akoonah Drive. Plant stock will arrive and be propagated here over the next several months. This is the first stage of providing many thousands of local native plants for Ethos Centre landscaping and for environmental restoration projects on the site and in the Beechmont area.
Discussions are underway with Conservation Volunteers Australia, with view to co-creating programs to attract international nature tourism volunteers and trainees for local Beechmont and Ethos site environmental projects. We are also in discussion with the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency to develop our Nature Refuge application and (hopefully) attract funding from their Nature Assist program. This is for the Ethos Centre rainforest areas, west of the escarpment in the Upper Coomera Valley.
We are all looking forward to doing more onground environmental project works, now that the frost risk is over and the warmer growth season has begun.
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