Our launch of the Granite Belt BugSpace Gardener’s Network last Thursday night was a massive success with over 100 people attending!

In May, three motion sensor cameras were purchased with funding provided by the Friend of Parks Qld.

GBSAN Bushcare group collaborated with SDRC on the Sentimental Rocks reserve where invasive plants such as Agave, prickly pear and Madeira vine had taken over.

Don’t forget to come along to the launch of  Stage 2  of our Landscape Linkages project at Eukey Hall on 11 October.

Now we are embarking on an exciting voyage of creativity and First Nations culture with our NED Foundation funded Bell’s Turtle project with the Ballandean State School students.

BugSpace Gardeners Network will be launched on Thursday August 27th at 6pm in the Stanthorpe Civic Centre. Please come along and find out what is happening in the world of the Spineless Majority; the invertebrate army that runs our natural world. Free event but RSVP requested for catering purposes.

The next Bushcare meetup on 19th August will be a bush plant identification session. If you would like to join our group or be on our mailing list, please contact Andrew at trueunicorn11@gmail.com

The Tenterfield Field Naturalists Birder’s group took us for a walk in Broadwater State Forest to listen and look for what feathered creatures were afoot on 22 July.

Quoll cameras installed along Accommodation Creek & a reminder about the Stage 2 launch on 11 October.

Term 3, which runs from July through to September, will see our project ramping up again with activities. We’ve started with the visit from Bell’s Turtle researcher, Dr Lou Streeting, visiting the school to read her book, “Where are all the Baby Turtles” to the students and being interviewed as an author by the students.

BugSpace Gardeners Network will be launched on Thursday August 27th at 6pm in the Stanthorpe Civic Centre. Please come along and find out what is happening in the world of the Spineless Majority; the invertebrate army that runs our natural world. Free event but RSVP requested for catering purposes.

Following on from a successful launch of the Friends of Broadwater State Forest, there was an induction morning held at the Sims Lane entrance to the forest in early June.

The Landholders along Accommodation Creek welcomed Senior Ecologist with the Quoll Society, Paul Revie and Ash to discuss their conservation aims in building the riparian wildlife corridor along their section of the creek.

We are pleased that the SDRC Parks and Operations Team will support the GBSAN/Ballandean State School community planting day in early October by preparing the planting holes along the riparian zone of Accommodation Creek to enhance the habitat for the turtles.

We are excited to launch the BugSpace Gardeners Network in collaboration with Granite Belt IPM, Borders Landcare Organic Group (BLOG) and Granite Borders Landcare.