We celebrated World Wetlands Day in February 2022 with the launch of an exciting new environmental partnership between Coochiemudlo Island Coastcare and Conservation Volunteers Australia to Revive our Wetlands. The Melaleuca Wetlands is one...
Over the holidays new shorebird information signs were erected at both Victoria Point and Coochiemudlo jetties thanks to sponsorship by Kim Richards, Member for Redlands. Coochiemudlo island is surrounded by important shorebird feeding mudflats...
Environment / Fundraising / General
by Angela Hoskins · Published 31/10/2021 · Last modified 28/11/2021
Coochiemudlo Island Coastcare was the grateful recipient of a $1000 donation from Redland Bay Victoria Point Lions Club this month. RedVic President, Nat Reinke accompanied by Treasurer Paul Sime and Julie Reinke travelled to...
Our highest count to date! Thank you to all our Curlew counters who took part in the count this year. Fifty volunteers — including 16 island residents — counted a total of 233 birds...
Dunecare / Environment / Erosion / Project
by Angela Hoskins · Published 04/03/2021 · Last modified 03/12/2021
Coochiemudlo Island’s Shoreline Erosion Management Plan (SEMP) was unanimously passed by Redland City Council at its February meeting. Thanks to members of the Community Reference Group (CRG) who hung-in for three years of meetings,...
Expressions of interest sought from Coochiemudlo boat-owners Local boat-owners can help make Coochiemudlo one of the first mooring sites in Australia to be completely environmentally-friendly with actively recovering seagrass by taking up a free...
Dunecare / Environment / Erosion / Events / General
by Coochiemudlo Island Coastcare · Published 28/06/2020 · Last modified 28/11/2021
Coastcare is represented on the Community Reference Group, chaired by Cr Lance Hewlett and have been meeting with Council officers for almost three years to develop a Shoreline Erosion Management Plan for Coochiemudlo Island....
Environment / Flora / Project / Vegetation Management
by Coochiemudlo Island Coastcare · Published 28/06/2020 · Last modified 28/11/2021
Thanks to Healthy Landand Water, we now have new signage explaining what our working bees are all about. It’s especially useful when the saturated steam weeder is being deployed around wetland work zones. If you...
Environment / Flora / Project / Rangers / Vegetation Management
by Lois Neilson · Published 23/02/2019 · Last modified 02/08/2021
Coochiemudlo Island Coastcare has partnered with Healthy Land and Water in a project funded by the Australian Government to undertake restoration works around the Melaleuca Wetlands. The $18,651 grant project will improve the integrity...
Environment / Erosion / Vegetation Management
by Lois Neilson · Published 23/02/2019 · Last modified 02/12/2021
Managing What Matters is an economic study into the impact of environmental decline in south-east Queensland. It measures for the first time the social cost to the community and the impact on business of environmental...
