Environmental Groups

 

Tamborine Mountain Landcare

Contact Cornelia Meesters, ph: 5545 3675; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: http://www.tamborinemtnlandcare.org.au/

Tamborine Mountain Landcare volunteers are regenerating forests and reserves throughout the Tamborine Mountain escarpment. With local residents, Tamborine Mountain Landcare coordinates with local, state and national authorities to ensure the beautiful landscape of Tamborine Mountain is not only preserved but enriched.

 

Beechmont District Landcare Inc. Group

Contact Craig Perkins, ph: 5533 3307; Web: http://www.beechmont.org.au/component/myblog/blogger/Beechmont%20Landcare/ or http://www.calyx.com.au/Beaudesert.html

 

Beaudesert Landcare Group

Contact John Dunn, ph: 5541 4353; Mavis Rostedt, ph: 5541 2106/3343 7122

 

Boonah Organisation for a Sustainable Shire (BOSS)

www.boonahboss.blogspot.com

Contact Julie Jackson; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Boonah Organisation for a Sustainable Shire (BOSS) focuses on the values, principles, and aspirations which underpin a sustainable future for Boonah and beyond. The group consists of a broad cross section of the community who share that common vision. BOSS was established in 2006 in the wake of concerns regarding environmental, planning and development issues which were surfacing in the Shire. Letters to the local paper and discussion highlighted that community members wanted a sustainable future and a voice. An independent consensus building mechanism which was ‘all of community’ open and inclusive was required and BOSS was born.

BOSS is committed to ensuring its community has a vibrant, caring and green future with a visible connection and celebration of its past and the natural environment.
It achieves this by:

• Creating a collective community voice to promote shared values principles, and aspirations
• Engaging and interacting with our community, our community groups our regional council, state and Federal Governments
• Practically applying sustainable approaches to life resulting in a collective lighter touch upon the earth
• Understanding from little things big things grow
• Providing a forum where creative ideas can take root, be supported and grow into viable local solutions
• Empowering the next generation with the skills and courage to live more wisely and less selfishly
• Understanding the shared responsibility for the present and future well being of our local community and the larger living world
• Recognising ongoing connection with a unique local identity is a vital element in growing sustainable communities
• Encouraging and supporting local business activity, ways of living and future planning models which incorporates a sustainable ethos and adopts a triple bottom line approach to determine success, and
• Working to provide a sustainable legacy for future generations

Logan and Albert Conservation Association (LACA)

Contact Andy, ph: 5543 1181; Kathy, ph: 3200 0129; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: http://www.laca.org.au/

The Logan and Albert Conservation Association:

• plays an active role in the protection and enhancement of the environment with particular emphasis on the Scenic Rim Region, Logan City, and areas immediately adjacent
• promotes the concept of environmental sustainability as an essential criterion of planning for development
• informs the community on all aspects of conservation
• researches and reports on current and proposed activities likely to affect the local environment
• encourages the widest possible public consultation and informed debate on matters of conservation and environmental importance to the local community

LACA meets every fourth Thursday of the month (except for December) at 7:30 pm at the Beaudesert Community Arts & Information Centre at the northern entrance to Beaudesert on Enterprise Drive, off Mt Lindesay Hwy, Beaudesert. Visitors are always welcome. Volunteers are always needed if you would like to help out occasionally - or help with specific projects. LACA also hosts a number of public meetings and community information workshops during the year. Details of all events are published in the Events calendar and local press releases. More information can be obtained by emailing: \n This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Logan and Albert Rivers Catchment Association (LARC)

Contact Steve Lyngcoln, ph: 5541 3438; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: http://www.larcweb.org/xoops/modules/news/

The Logan-Albert Rivers Catchment Association (LARC) was formed (19.4KB pdf file) in 2000 after both community and government sectors recognised a need for strategic catchment management. LARC meets monthly and rotates the location of its meetings to ensure that all stakeholders have the opportunity to participate. Meeting locations include: The Logan-Albert Rivers Catchment Centre at Loganlea State High School and the Council Training Rooms at Beaudesert. LARC is a State Government endorsed Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) committee for the river and tributaries of the Logan and Albert Catchment and the Redland Catchment.

 

The Ethos Foundation:

Contact Sally MacKinnon; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Web: www.ethosfoundation.org.au

The Ethos Foundation’s mission is to cultivate effective new thinking, values and action for positive, ecologically sustainable futures. Our work facilitates and promotes education for sustainability: personal, professional, organisational and social.

Our work focuses on sustainability learning programs; Local Living Economy and sustainable small business; community building; and Art and Ecology.

 

Jimboomba Bush Care Group

Contact Barry Roberts, ph: 0418 154 108, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Tamborine Mountain Transition Town Network

www.transitiontowns.org/TamborineMountain-QLD

Contact: Shane Heaton Phone: (07) 5545 2523 Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tamborine Mountain is officially registered with the Transition Town Network at www.transitiontowns.org and it is time for the community to figure out how it will help make the transition to a lower carbon future. A Transition initiative is a community working together to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and address the question: For all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly increase resilience and drastically reduce carbon emissions? This results in a coordinated range of projects across many areas of life that restore resilience, creativity and prosperity in the community.

 

Wild Mountains Trust:

www.wildmountains.org

The Wild Mountains Trust is an independent, community focussed, non-profit organisation providing leadership in environmental education and conservation.

The Trust has acquired land south of Rathdowney adjoining the World Heritage Border Ranges National Park for a nature reserve and venue for education. On this magnificent site a world class Centre is being built. Here, using the unique purpose-built residential facility, quality experiential environmental education for the whole community will be provided.
In subtropical and eucalypt forests participants have the opportunity to discover an amazing natural world. At the same time Wild Mountains reinforces its educational programs with examples of renewable power generation and appropriate building technologies.

 

Wildcare Australia

www.wildcare.org.au ph: 5527 2444 (24hr emergency rescue and care)

Native animal rescue and rehabilitation

 

Logan River Branch of the Society for Growing Australian Plants (SCAP)

Contact Dennis Cox, ph: 5546 8590 or Kerry Rathie, ph: 3200 0268

Meets 3rd Tuesday at Chambers Flat/Logan Reserve Community Centre, Kenny Rd

 

Tamborine Mountain Natural History Assn

Contact Nadia O’Carroll, ph: 5545 3551, Web: www.naturalhistory.org.au

Tamborine Mt Natural History Association is an independent community based volunteer association, which has been supporting the appreciation, protection and preservation of the natural environment of Tamborine Mt since 1975. Its activities include:

• Conservation: It has a bird habitat revegetation project; participates in regular SEQ catchment water monitoring; are members of Richmond Birdwing Recovery Network, Gliders in the Spotlight, Echidna Watch and the Stockroutes Coalition. It is the lead agency for Alberts Lyrebird survey. It participates in campaigns that preserve wildlife including wildlife friendly fencing and safe netting. It directs financial support to Wildcare and care of injured wildlife. We maintain an extensive biodiversity database
• Advocacy: It monitors, comments on, lobbies and prepares submissions for a range of issues that effect the local environment.
• Bird Group: It holds regular meetings and walks; contributes to the Bird Atlas; and has produced a CD - Birds of Tamborine Mountain
• Bushwalking: It holds regular meetings and walks; is affiliated with Bushwalking Qld and Bushwalking Australia and can participate in their activities
• National Parks: Its inducted QPW volunteers assist NP activities; it has developed a self-guided NP walk with QPW; is affiliated with NPAQ.
• Education: Up till July 2009, it operated the Visitors Information Centre for 33 years; it publishes brochures, articles, newsletters and magazines; and holds regular general meetings with a wide range of speakers
• Community: It supports other local community organisations; coordinates Clean up Australia on Tamborine Mountain
• Networking: It is a member of other environmental organisations and is represented on a number of advisory committees

Carpbusters Inc

Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Fassifern Field Naturalists

1 Mountainview Close, Boonah 4310, Phone: 5463 6768, Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Scenic Rim Regional Council – Environment and Sustainability Department

Contact Michael Anderson, Manager; email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Web: www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au

Scenic Rim Regional Council has a wide range of environment, conservation and sustainability programs on offer for the communities, organisations, households and people of the Rim.

• Catchments and waterways: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/waterCatchments.shtml
• Community conservation groups: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/residents/communityGroups.shtml
• Environment programs and events: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/environmentPrograms.shtml
• Environmental grants: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/environmentalGrants.shtml
• Flora and fauna: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/floraFauna.shtml
• Property conservation: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/propertyConservation.shtml
• Being Energywise: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/energyWise.shtml
• Sustainable Living: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/sustainableLiving.shtml
• Water Conservation: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/waterConservation.shtml
• Declared Plants: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/environment/declaredPlants.shtml
• Free Trees: http://www.scenicrim.qld.gov.au/facilities/nursery.shtml

 

Scenic Rim Wildlife Preservation Society Qld (WPSQ)

Contact is Ronda Green; Phone: (07) 55441283; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Green Mountains Natural History Association

www.lamingtonnrsm.uq.edu.au/mainmenuhtml

 

Lamington Natural History Association

www.binnaburralodge.com.au/Binna-Burra/About-Us/Lamington-Natural-History-Association

 

Tamborine Mountain Garden Club

www.tmbotanicgardens.org.au

Formed in 1982 to develop and maintain a botanic gardens in Eagle Heights. Presents Springtime of the Mountain Open Gardens Trail. Meets at 9.30am on 2^nd Tuesday of each month at the Vonda Youngman Community Centre, Main Street, North Tamborine.

Environmental Initiatives

 

Gondwana Rainforests of Australia

http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/gondwana/index.html

The Gondwana Rainforests of Australia include the most extensive areas of subtropical rainforest in the world, large areas of warm temperate rainforest and nearly all the Antarctic Beech cool temperate rainforests. Few places on earth contain so many plants and animals which remain relatively unchanged from their ancestors in the fossil record. The Gondwana Rainforests were inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1986 (extended in 1994). The Gondwana Rainforests were one of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007. The Scenic Rim Region is home to many national parks which form the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia.

 

Tamborine Mountain Botanical Garden

http://www.tmbotanicgardens.org.au/

A visit to Tamborine Mountain is not complete without time spent in the Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens, where tropical meets temperate. Covering 11 hectares, the  Gardens consist of exotic species and the natural rainforest of Tamborine Mountain.  Over 25 years, Volunteers have developed this property into the highly-photographic boutique Gardens that they are today. Being 500 metres above sea level, Tamborine Mountain has a climate that is cooler and less humid than the lower coastal areas.  This allows plants to be grown from cool climate and temperate zones.  Flowering cherries, Rhododendron species, Magnolias, Camellias and Maples are a few of the genera on display. Providing a picturesque background to the exotic sections of the Gardens is the natural rainforest which is cared for by Volunteers from Landcare.  You can experience the ambience of a rainforest by walking our 100 metre rainforest trail. You will discover other themed areas including the Japanese garden, Rose garden, Bromeliad garden, Wisteria covered pergolas, Perennial / cottage garden, and features such as the lake with its quaint stone bridge and water lilies, and the Cherry tree walk which bursts into flower in mid-October.

The Hydrangeas are spectacular in summer and the extensive Camellia and Azalea displays are in bloom in the cooler months.  Autumn brings colour to the Maples and Liquidambars.

Take the time to sit awhile on the seats along the way and enjoy the lush settings and vistas.

 

Council part of SEQ Natural Resources Management Plan 2009-2031

http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/be-involved/pdf/seq_nrm_plan.pdf

Scenic Rim Regional Council has joined other local governments in a coordinated approach to preserving South East Queensland’s natural environment through the SEQ Natural Resources Management Plan 2009-2031. The plan requires a commitment from councils to coordinate efforts to preserve the region’s unique natural environment with a clear set of environmental targets as a guide. Council’s representative on the SEQ Environment and Sustainability Committee, Cr Kathy Bensted, said the plan provided a consolidated approach to help each local government area address greenhouse gas emissions, encourage improvements to nature conservation, regional landscape values and the extent and condition of wetlands. Councils in SEQ spend $200 million annually on natural resource management. The SEQ Natural Resources Management Plan 2009-2031 includes more than 40 targets for 2031 including:

• At least 90% of regionally important landscape heritage intact in 2011 to be retained within each local government area
• The region to make an equitable contribution to national and regional targets for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
• 75% of grazing land in SEQ to be in “good” condition and the 2008 SEQ wetlands conditions to be maintained or increased.

 

Scenic Rim Wildlife Expo, Beaudesert

Sunday 18 July 2010. Contact Ronda Green; Phone: (07) 5544 1283; Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

BOSS Natural Resources program

Workshops
Workshops about using natural resources and environmentally friendly products will run through April and May. They offer creative ideas about how to reuse items which would normally go to landfill including dying fabrics with natural products, creating jewellery from junk, worm farming and composting.

Field Trips
BOSS hopes to organise field trips to places which are recognised as best practice, such as organic gardens, aquaponics etc.

Recycling & Upcycling Information

BOSS will be collating information about recycling and upcycling opportuntities around the region. These will include the less known ones like cork collecting by the girl guides and bread tags, and promoting groups like the Beaudesert Freecyclers.

Local Produce Information
BOSS will be collating information about local produce and locally handmade and eco-friendly products.

World Environment Day Event
Boonah will host an outdoor World Environment Day on Saturday 5 June with demonstrations, stalls, information etc.

The program’s aim is to lift awareness levels of the need to reduce our carbon footprint, and offering all sorts of ideas and activities to do so. BOSS will also be planting trees to offset our carbon emissions.

If you would like to get involved in any way, please let BOSS Coordinator Julie Jackson know. We need workshop presenters, field trip hosts, world environment day stall holders, blog postings and information collation. To get involved contact Julie Jackson: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

SEQ Catchments Ecosystem Services Project

www.seqcatchments.com.au/ecosystem_services.html

Contact: Simone Maynard: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ecosystem Services are the goods and services provided by natural (and semi-natural) ecosystems that benefit, sustain and support the wellbeing of people. They include the production of food and medicines, the regulation of climate and disease, provision of productive soils and clean water, and landscape opportunities for recreation and spiritual benefits.

SEQ Catchments has been mapping our region’s Ecosystem Services and developing an Ecosystem Services toolkit for farmers, government and communities.