Adjoining Mt Barney National Park on the border of Queensland and New South Wales lies Gillies Ridge Nature Refuge. As beautiful as our property is, it doesn’t have a reliable … Continue reading Post-fire Recovery: Targeting Rock-wallabies, Glossy Black-Cockatoos and Koalas
Great news for Toowoomba landholders! Land for Wildlife is up and running in Toowoomba and all applications are welcomed. After many years of the program being on hold, Toowoomba Regional … Continue reading Toowoomba Rejoins Land for Wildlife
Kenmore State High School students from years 7 to 12 planted 1000 native plants on the outskirts of the oval next to Moggill Creek to celebrate Schools Tree Day in … Continue reading Kenmore State High School Saves the World – One Tree at a Time
T he track up the hill was steep and took our breath away for a bit as we rested at the top of the ridge. The view down into the … Continue reading Reviving the Kin Kin Rainforests
In my job as a Land for Wildlife Officer I have been privileged to meet many inspirational landowners who have devoted a large part of their lives nurturing their properties. … Continue reading Handing over Custodianship of a Land for Wildlife Property
For a weekend in late October last year, over 20 people descended onto four adjoining Land for Wildlife/Nature Refuge properties in the southern Scenic Rim for a BioBlitz. Most attendees … Continue reading Scenic Rim BioBlitz
When we bought our large bush block in the 1980s in the foothills of Toowoomba’s escarpment, the bush around us appeared to be an indistinct blur of green. As 20-somethings, … Continue reading From Green Blur to Valued Diversity
When we bought our 20 acre property back in 1990, it was all bare paddocks. We moved here because we wanted somewhere with heavy soils with good grass for horses … Continue reading From Paddock to Ephemeral Wetland
In March 2021, the Land for Wildlife program in SEQ reached a milestone with the registration of our 5000th property. Congratulations Timotheos Firestone on being our 5000th LfWSEQ member and … Continue reading Celebrating the 5000th LfWSEQ Property
I purchased my cleared and run-down farm many years ago with the intention of turning it into what is now called farm forestry. As a consequence the landscape has been … Continue reading A Farm Forestry Success Story