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Coastcarers enjoyed a wonderful cultural walk led by Quandamooka woman, Elisha Kissick recently to celebrate NAIDOC. After an inspiring Welcome to Country, Elisha introduced us to bush foods with their beneficial and medicinal qualities....
Update: The winners have been announced! Healthy Land & Water is running a photo competition to celebrate the beauty and values of the Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland. Upload your best photos of plants, animals,...
Cultural Walk + Weeding in the Melaleuca Wetlands Where: Melaleuca Wetlands, 80 Victoria Parade East Lower, Coochiemudlo Island When: Saturday 30 July | 09:00AM – 1:00PM Come and join us celebrate NAIDOC on Coochiemudlo...
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...
Thank-you to members who attended our Annual General Meeting at the Community Hall on Friday 18 June 2021. Dr Michael Gourlay — honourary life membership to Coochiemudlo Coastcare During the evening, Honorary Life Membership...
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....
Dunecare / Events / General / Vegetation Management
by Coochiemudlo Island Coastcare · Published 28/06/2020 · Last modified 28/11/2021
Join a happy band of volunteers weeding the Melaleuca Wetlands and tending what’s left of the dunes next weekend, Saturday 4 July from 2-4pm. We’ll meet where the Coastcare flags fly at the southern...
Environment / Events / Vegetation Management
by Lois Neilson · Published 06/02/2018 · Last modified 02/08/2021
Coastcare’s saturated steam weeding project was launched on World Wetlands Day, Friday 2 February by the Member for Redlands, Kim Richards MP, representing the Hon Leeanne Enoch MP, Minister for the Environment and the...
A hot humid weekend didn’t deter volunteers who participated in Coochie’s annual curlew count at the weekend. After a briefing at Main Beach by Indigiscapes, teams were dispatched to search every nook and cranny on...
Yesterday’s opening of the wetland’s interpretive signage project by Australia’s Threatened Species Commissioner, Gregory Andrews was an inspiring occasion. From the Quandamooka Welcome by Patrick Coolwell & his mesmerising didgeridoo to the Commissioner’s address with...