Volunteer Bushcarers, Noosa Bush Beach and Creek Care recently received funding support from the Queensland Government’s Community Sustainability Action grant program. This is a three-year project auspiced by NICA. It is titled “Rally Round Rehabilitate Noosa’s National and Conservation Parks”. The volunteers will be rehabilitating 6 distinct areas. Four in the Noosa National Park Headland Section, one in Tewantin National Park and also Sheep Island Conservation Park. The grant will pay for contractors to assist with heavy works, for Pontoon Boat Hire, a Defibrillator, Extendable Plank to assist with getting on and off the boat, as well as weeding materials and equipment.
NBBCC volunteers have been carrying our rehabilitation works for 18 years in various ecosystems. Works are ongoing. They include Sunshine Beach High Dunes, Seaview Creek, Sunshine Beach National Park Perimeter, Rainforest Gully, an Urban Wetland, Doggy Beach Noosa Spit, Laguna Lookout. They are successfully propagating Eucalyptus conglomerata, QLD’s most endangered eucalypt.
With the assistance of a Noosa Council grant, “Coastal Connect”, they are one of 6 groups currently rehabilitating the dunes between Peregian and Sunshine Beach.
NBBCC volunteers were the mainstay for NICA’s Fall of Singapore Project before the Girraween Bushcare Group formed. Members of the group form the core of “Sand Island” rehabilitating team.
NBBCC work every Thursday morning, but you are welcome to come on a random basis. If you’d like to be part of a great team, please contact NICA for details. You will be contributing to the welfare of local wildlife and the environment. You’ll learn and laugh and feel it doing you good – physically and mentally.