The Noosaville Library at Wallace Park Noosaville is hosting an exhibition showing how urban gardeners can help protect Noosa’s most valuable asset: its natural environment. Put together by NICA stalwarts Stephanie Haslam, Kay Southam and Suzanne Bloomfield, the display features photographs and artwork of inspirational native gardens.
Things are starting to move at the Sunrise Beach Blue Care development with Glossy Bob reporting the start of electrical infrastructure for the site. This post give an update on a response Bob received from Noosa Council and subsequent communications with Lendlease, the company appointed to manage community engagement.
Bob followed up with Conor Neville from Noosa Council - he does Ecologist Development Assessments for the Environment and Sustainable Development department. Here's his response:
The recent controversy around Sunshine Coast Council’s decision to pump PFAS contaminated water out to sea, along with the release of water from other affected sites across Australia, raises a much bigger question about pollution of our land and water in general. While it is necessary question where this water should go, it also must be asked where the PFAS is coming from in the first place?
Desiré Gralton signed up to the recently launched Urban Wildlife Gardens program and received some good advice and guidance from program coordinator Michelle Newall on ways to improve the biodiversity in her garden.
An open letter to Noosa Mayor Tony Wellington, CEO Brett de Chastel, all Noosa Councillors, Blue Care CEO Craig Barke and Project Manager Richard McKeon in light of the recent bush fires in Peregian where fire fighters had to form a shield around the Arcare aged care facility knowing that they didn’t have the staff or the vehicles to evacuate the residents.
A local group of Queensland “Koala Crusaders” are planning to assist the vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoos at the same time as the declining Noosa Shire Koalas through their great work revegetating a local area of future koala habitat.
Sunshine Beach State High School Relieving Principal, Grant Williams, has quickly become a good friend to the local Glossy Black Cockatoos in his efforts to minimise the impact of construction in the schoolgrounds and the neighbouring land.
The silence on the proposed new development has been deafening from both Council and Blue Care - could it be the quiet before the storm? Here's a bit of an update on the Glossy Birding Day results, the latest...
On Saturday 27 April I attended a Rights of Nature Workshop hosted by the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), Tree Sisters and Friends of the Forest. My objective was to learn more about the Rights of Nature movement and...
I wrote recently about the need not to react with alarm to scaremongering about the claimed poor state of Noosa River's biodiversity from NBRF and Noosa Council. That was exaggeration, not science.
NBRF and the Council need to develop an...
Chicken Little, the sky is falling! But is it really? Nick Hluszko digs deeper to find the story behind Noosa River's biodiversity troubles and concludes that the sky may not fall just yet.
Our latest contributor as part of Glossy Team Sunrise, Leela Rottman wrote this great introduction to the Glossy Black Cockatoo.
The sale of bags made by Boomerang Bags Noosa volunteers has over the years funded movie screenings and other educational programs, including $500 seed funding to establish the Plastic Free Noosa initiative, but lately the group has decided to focus their financial assistance on one group, with Ocean Crusaders selected as the worthy recipient.
