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, […]
American Students Visit Noosa Biosphere
On Sunday 21st May a group of 31 American students and 3 faculty members from Virginia Tech University visited the Noosa Biosphere Reserve on Sunday visiting Noosa Hill lookout along Hastings Street, Main Beach and then Mt Tinbeerwah lookout for a scenic overview. Tony Haslam from NICA told them about […]
Volunteers Weed Sand Island
On Sunday 2-4-17 NICA volunteers spent 4 hours removing 18 bags of weeds from the sand island at the river mouth on Sunday, including Basket Asparagus, Corky Passion Vine and Cobblers Pegs. John & Kay provided a well deserved excellent morning tea!
Volunteers have visited the island twice a year since […]