Join Dr Darren Fielder for an insightful talk on the importance of linking riparian zones in the Granite Belt. Discover how these vital habitats support endangered species like the Bell’s Turtle and Platypus, and what we can do to protect them.

Dr Darren Fielder is a highly respected scientist with extensive knowledge and expertise of the Granite Belt’s Fauna and Flora. Darren is a nationally recognised expert in freshwater turtles and aquatic ecology.

Free entry. RSVP: community@gbsan.org.au.

POSTPONED DUE TO CYCLONE. New date TBA.

Come along and find out why we are one of the most biodiverse regions in Queensland. Department officials will outline the biodiversity planning assessment process methodology, and how the region’s flora, fauna and important habitat linkages information can be used to guide future land use decision making and property management by local landholders. Free entry. RSVP: gbwildflowers@gmail.com.

Boronia repanda (Granite rose) is one of the Granite Belt’s threatened species facing extinction due to native vegetation clearing activities. Join us for the Consortium’s movie presentation to increase awareness about this unique native plant.

The film will be followed by a talk by Dr Don Sands, a leading ecologist specialising in Heliozelid spp moths. Don will be talking about the special relationship these moths have with Boronia species.

Finally, Geraldine Hollingsworth will be giving a talk about the bushland linkage projects currently being undertaken by the Granite Belt Sustainability Action Network and the Ready to Adapt Environmental Services group.

Assist with the Quoll float at the Apple and Grape Parade. Any amount of committed time is valuable.

One woman’s journey from ecological despair to finding hope in the soil beneath her feet.

Workshop to help create additional features for the GBSAN Quoll float for the Apple & Grape parade. Or to assist those doing the creating. Children are most welcome. Do market shopping at the same time!!

Come along and enjoy a relaxed afternoon with like-minded folk to meet fellow GBSANers and hopefully get more involved.

Xmas social drinks at midday, and those interested in lunch can do so (send Sue your lunch choice by 17 Nov). Others can just sip and mingle.

Saturday 3rd September. Gates open: 9am to 3pm

463 Back Creek Road Severnlea

Did you know you may be able to revegetate areas of your property for FREE under the Environmental Restoration Fund by the Australian Government? Come to the QuollSA's Restoring Threatened Species Habitat Workshop in Stanthorpe to find out more.

Saturday 25 September 2021 . 9am - 3pm.
Ananda Palli – 463 Back Creek Road, Severnlea

General meeting Sunday 12th September at 2pm at Granite Belt Brewery in Stanthorpe.

GBSAN will be hosting a one-day sustainable agriculture and land management symposium in Stanthorpe later this year, with keynote speaker Charles Massy, regenerative farmer and author of 'Call of the Reed Warbler’. Book tickets now.

Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.

The next General meeting will be at the old CWA Building, Victoria Street, Stanthorpe. Sunday 9 May at 2pm.

The Crawford Fund and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) are hosting a workshop to highlight exactly what farmers can do, and are doing, to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. These innovative practices are making a difference and provide strategies that could be implemented across Australia and around the world.

$35 per person.

Our first AGM.

This workshop is designed to engage and inform conservation minded landholders about the State and Federal Government funded programs available to support their property management efforts.

2040 is a hybrid feature documentary that looks to the future, but is vitally important NOW! Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream.