Noosa River Cleanup Removes 2 Tonnes of Rubbish
NICA organised a clean up of the Noosa River as part of Noosa Biosphere Day on 2nd October, 2017, thanks to a grant from Sea World and Healthy Land and Water. Around 30 volunteers from NICA, NCBA and the Surfrider’s Sunshine Coast ventured out and along the Noosa River and […]
Noosa Wallum Festival
The Noosa Wallum Festival held over the weekend of 25th to 27th August was hailed a great success. Presented by NICA and funded by Noosa Council the festival brought together a range of guest speakers on topics affecting the wallum country or ecosystem of coastal south-east Queensland. Organised by a […]
Noosa Council Grants for Garden for Wildlife and Wallum Festival
Noosa Council has supported efforts by NICA to make local gardens more of a haven for native wildlife and to run a Noosa Wallum Festival by funding 2 grants to be received in July 2017. A scoping study for a ‘Garden for Wildlife’ project and support of a NICA’s upcoming […]
NICA Successful in 2 Qld State Govt Grants for Bush Care
NICA is pleased to announce in June 2017 that 2 bushland care groups it supports have been successful in obtaining funding from the State Government under its Community Sustainability Action grant program. Noosa Bushland Beach & Creek Care has received a grant for stage one of the rehabilitation of ‘Cooloosa […]
Good Shepherd Lutheran College School Excursion
On Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th June NICA assisted with a two day Good Shepherd Lutheran College excursion for 57 year 7 students. On Monday NICA volunteers and Marcus Beach Bushcare Group assisted with a Waterways excursion at Peregian Creek for Good […]
Noosa River Seagrass Monitoring New Technology
Many NICA volunteers have learned that monitoring the health of sea-grass beds using the traditional quadrat method is hard and messy work, and it has recently proved impossible for NICA to find funds to keep the traditional survey going. But NICA, in partnership with the University of the Sunshine Coast, […]