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Pulling out weeds!! the 2nd 4ZZZ Bushcare Bash was a great afternoon.

If you want to ensure that BCC is held accountable regarding community input in repurposing the old Pine Mountain Quarry please sign the petition here https://www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petition/view/pid/1352
( or google The Future of Pine Mountain Road Quarry)

Proper environmental and wildlife care should be taken when considering its redevelopment and Friends of Whites Hill Reserve, the local bushcare group are concerned this is not being properly assessed.

This week we talked about the proposed development of the Pine Mountain Quarry and what the council needs to take into consideration. Here is the petition that you can sign to tell the council what needs to be protected.

https://www.epetitions.brisbane.qld.gov.au/petition/view/pid/1352

Pine Mountain Quarry Petition - Our petition asking the City to conduct public consultation sessions on the future of the Quarry is just shy of 400 signatures! If you and your friends have yet to add your names to the growing list of locals looking for a 'fair-go' decision-making process, this is the time to sign on! With nine days to go before it closes, every new name will matter. Our local wildlife is counting on you!

Plenty of bushcare events this weekend and we are not afraid to shamelessly plug the EcoRadio bushcare bash happening this weekend! N4C Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee Friends Of Lagoon Creek ECORADio 4ZZZ FM Lagonda Park Bushcare - LPB Pullen Pullen Catchments Group Wildlife Queensland BDS Australia Barung Landcare

Radiothon is coming up and that means we are going to have our second eco-radio bushcare bash!
We are going back to the saltmarsh near Norman Park bowls club and help the critically endangered ecosystem there.

There is no experience needed, but you will need to bring water and a hat

A huge thanks to Trish Fitzsimons for being the fantastic Saltmarshell and the Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating N4C Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee for letting us help out.

Community sounds different when you're helping heal the country, and that's what 4ZZZ is all about.

So come down to pull out weeds and put in sedges!

Not related to anything, just amusing

Last few days of the Peaks to Points Festival, head to their website to find out more. There's also plenty of bushcare this week stay warm on those frosty mornings! Peaks to Points Festival Bonogin Valley Bushcare Group THECA Crosby Road Bushcare - Brisbane Habitat Group Springfield Lakes Nature Care Inc. Anstead Reserve Habitat Restoration Group

Tune in tomorrow midday as I will be having a chat with my good friend Adam Billsborough. Adam is an integrated pest management advisor and expert and will be providing insight on the benefits of certain bug species around the garden. We will also be touching upon the latest environment news including the arrest of Paul Watson and some updates in the insect world. The bushcare roundup will be there as usual too!

Setting up the

Woah so fun fact, the staghorn fern Platycerium bifurcatum found in Queensland is the first known case of plants showing a degree of eusociality like that found in ants or bees. This means that individuals differ in their role in the colony potentially allowing for the whole colony to function better. Those at the top are great at funneling water to the bottom while those at the bottom excel at collecting and storing water. Stored water can then be shared amongst individuals in times of scarcity via an extensive intertwined root system. If you would like to learn all about staghorn ferns, please listen to the latest episode which also includes an interview we had with Lucy Piper, the director of WorkforClimate.

These last few days have been pretty mild, perfect for some early morning bushcare! Peaks to Points Festival Growing Forward Gertrude Petty Place Bushcare Watergum Food Connect Foundation Food Connect Shed Justice for Palestine Magan-djin

Tune in tomorrow midday as we will be having a chat with Lucy Piper, the director of WorkforClimate. WorkforClimate is a not for profit that provides people with advice and strategies regarding making their workplace more climate conscious. We will also be talking all things staghorn fern related plus the usual bushcare roundup.

Chilly mornings out there at the moment, keep warm! Shame about the Queensland losing tonight and I fully expect to cop it from one of the cohosts. Peaks to Points Festival Friends of the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens Currumbin Creek Care Group Arnwood Place Bushcare Group Friends of Whites Hill Reserve Oxley Creek Catchment Association

Edit: I have since been informed that due to the Peaks to Points Festival Family Day, Bushcare and Beer will not be taking place this Sunday. There are a heap of events still taking place at Oxley Creek that day though so please check out the Peaks to Points Festival!

Tomorrow on EcoRadio we will be having a chat with Emma-Kate Rose, the director of the food connect foundation and organiser of an upcoming event called People’s Day held on July 28th which will kick off the South-East Queensland food summit. We will also be talking about the global decline of amphibians plus the usual bushcare roundup.

Pic is the Black Rain Frog

Some events for NAIDOC week and more! Musgrave Park Family Fun Day Aura - City of Colour Tarrabora Reserve Bushcare Group N4C Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee Humpbacks & High-Rises Brandon Road Bushcare Group, Runcorn Refocus Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Service

For those that tuned in to EcoRadio two weeks ago, you would have heard our interview with Dr Georgia Crabbe-Wallace, one of the filmmakers of The Koalas. At the time, there was only one more screening in Brisbane but two encore screenings have been announced at New Farm Cinemas on the 13th and 14th of July at 2pm. There will also be a guest speaker, yet to be announced and will include a general discussion at the end on how we can prevent the further decline of koalas nationally.

For this EcoRadio is doing a giveaway where you could win two tickets and bring a friend along for the Sunday the 14th screening at 2pm. All you have to do is like and leave a comment just so we know who is active. The winner will be drawn 2pm Thursday. Good luck!!

With all this rain around the creeks will be flowing for some water bug sampling and the soil will be extra easy to dig up hehe
NaturallyGC: Hinterland Regional Park- Tree Planting Watergum Pullen Pullen Catchments Group Jane Street Community Garden Taringa Community Garden Oxley Creek Catchment Association

Tomorrow on EcoRadio we will be talking to Sharyn from Save the Koalas and Wallabies of White's Hill. In the past 9 months of 2023, at least 91 koalas were killed in the 6km area surrounding White’s Hill Reserve. In addition to this, in April this year, six wallabies were killed in the same area. We will also be chatting about the swamp wallaby, the species found in White’s Hill Reserve and throughout much of Brisbane, plus the usual bushcare roundup.

Photo credit: Pat Tomkins Wildlife

With the school holidays comes many a chance to for some outdoors activities!!

Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy Treaty Before Sports THECA Natura Pacific Yeronga Bushcare The Koalas Film

Tune in tomorrow midday as we have the fortune of interviewing the directors and producers of The Koalas Film. This is a movie documentary that explores and highlights the current threats that koalas are facing with specific examples which can be extrapolated across Australia. The film was released around the country a week and a half ago and has one final playing session in Brisbane on the 30th of June at 3pm at New Farm Cinemas.

Woah fun fact, the Australian lungfish has dentition indistinguishable from a lungfish fossil located found in Lightning Ridge from the Early Cretaceous suggesting that it is the same species and hasn't changed at all in a hundred million years. This fossil and another found near Chinchilla suggests the Australian Lungfish originally had a wider distribution but the aridification of Australia in the Pleistocene has resulted in it's current small distribution

To mind out more cool things about the Australian Lungfish and the Liberal's proposed nuclear power plant check out the latest Ecoradio! (Also it's pretty fitting that a Pokemon based on a Coelacanth had this OG description considering how relatively closely related they are to lungfish)

Some events where you can pull out weeds and put in trees this week!

Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve Springfield Lakes Nature Care Inc. Naturally Gold Coast Environment Festival Davidson Street Bushcare Group WPSQ Bayside Branch Merri Merri Bushcare Group Upper Cubberla Creek Native Plants Queensland IndigiScapes Centre - Redland City Council

This is amazing! A quoll in New Farm!

Tune in tomorrow midday as we go through all the latest environmental news and talk about the endangered Australian lungfish which is found right here in southern Queensland!

Some activities where you can pull out weeds and put in trees over the next week!!

Tune in tomorrow midday as we bring you all the latest environment news from Queensland, Australia and around the world. We'll also be talking about the memed and maligned brush turkey along with the usual bushcare roundup

Foggy mornings don't stop Bushcarers!

Food Connect Foundation, Food Connect Shed, Watergum, World Ocean Day, Springbrook Environmental Festival, Oxley Creek Catchment Association