Attracting frogs into your backyard is not difficult. If you create the right conditions and habitat the frogs will find their way. You may even have resident frogs already. The presence of frogs is a good indicator of the overall health of an ecosystem. By creating suitable habitats and refuges for frogs in our own backyards we can help their survival in challenging urban environments. Click through for more tips and tricks to attract frogs into your garden.
Healthy Land & Water have recently published the Annual Report Card for the Noosa River, and we are pleased that it has once again received an A- grading, making it one of the cleanest [...]
The weed of the month October is the Micky mouse plant, an attractive shrub/small tree that is common in Noosa gardens. This South African plant is spread by birds and has found its way into our bushland. It grows well in different ecosystems and so is found from the coast to the hinterland. Once Ochna is established it out-competes the native vegetation and forms dense thickets. It is also hard to kill and so is of great concern to our bushland and should be removed.
Join us for a tour of the Noosa Wastewater Treatment Plant to learn more about the way wastewater is treated in our community, and help us reimagine our water future. Participants will receive From [...]
We now have stock of the new Weeds of the Sunshine Coast book. This 2nd edition is a field guide for anyone interested in the ID of weeds common throughout Cooloola, Fraser Island and [...]
NICA and Healthy Land and Water have partnered via the 2020 Community NRM Activity Support Grant Program to tackle the rehabilitation of key shorebird habitat located in the Noosa River estuary. The twelve [...]
NICA is pleased to release a report on our long-running survey of the Noosa River's threatened shorebird species. Conducted over 14 years from 2005 (and still going strong), the survey documents the rich but [...]
Ever wondered who we are, what we do, or even what the letters mean....? We are a community organisation dedicated to the preservation and sustainable use of the Noosa River catchment. We are the [...]
Leaders from 6 Local Bushcare Groups met this week to signal the start of much needed rehabilitation works along the 11kms eastern beaches strip, where vegetated dunes provide resilience to the onslaught of coastal [...]
17-8-2020 Thanks to a Noosa Council Community and Environment grant of $5,323 the Urban Wildlife Gardens Program in Noosa will continue into 2021. The program increases members’ understanding of biodiversity values on their property, and [...]
