Pioneer Catchment & Landcare Group Inc. in North Mackay, Queensland, Australia | Environmental conservation organisation

Pioneer Catchment & Landcare Group Inc.

Locality: North Mackay, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 4944 1979

Address: Mackay Regional Council's Natural Environment Centre, 6 Swayne Street 4740 North Mackay, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.pioneercatchment.org.au

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25.01.2022 Our monthly members newsletter is out, join up with us at pioneercatchment.org.au/participate/membership #landcare #pioneer #pioneercatchmentlandcare

25.01.2022 Pioneer Catchment Landcare has been busy! Check out some of our activities in October! We also collected rubbish with Tangaroa Blue and Conservation Volunteers Australia at the harbour, planted trees and did some weeding on reveg sites with volunteers and new casual reveg staff around the region! Exciting times ahead - watch this space for Novembers' activities

22.01.2022 Give away! 1 mailbox! We found an old bar fridge in our storage this morning & a passing fridgie kindly performed an autopsy. Also ...... Wanted: 1 bar fridge. If anyone is giving away a spare fridge, we are on the look out for a replacement. Cheers! #pioneercatchmentlandcare #springclean #wastenotwantnot #reducereuserecycle

21.01.2022 What an exciting Junior Landcare project- well done Capricorn Coast Landcare! In 2018-2019 Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants helped over 100,000 Australian students to get their hands dirty and learn about the environment & sustainability. The next round of funding will open in 2021. If you would like to have a project at your school "shovel ready" for the next grant round, contact your local Landcare group.... #PioneerCatchmentLandcare for Mackay & Pioneer Valley. #landcare #juniorlandcare #capricorncoastlandcare #sarinalandcare #whitsundaylandcare

21.01.2022 PCL members, please RSVP for the upcoming AGM as soon as possible. There are two options to attend, in person at Jubilee Community Centre, or via Zoom. Proxy forms have been emailed for those who can't make it. Come along for a chance to catch up with all our Landcare champions!

20.01.2022 Sometrhing interesting for a Friday evening....

19.01.2022 The nursery is full of little people today! Mackay Regional Council Natural Environment Centre staff have opened the doors today to a group of keen budding nursery helpers form Mackay Christian College as part of the DBCT Vines Creek Wetland restoration project. Last week we planted out 100 native trees at the wetland restoration project site on Ambrose Way. ... Yesterday we talked to Phil Trendal from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries about why wetlands are so important to the environment, in particular the role of healthy stream banks and vegetation on water quality. Today Sue, Carolyn, Erin from MRC and Tom (PCL) will be showing the Year 5 students what goes on at the native plant nursery. Using locally collected seeds, the students will perform nursery duties in the seed propagation process and make seed bombs (!) There's smiles all round - thanks everyone for helping make today a fun learning experience for our future Wetland Warriors! #MCCVinesCreekWetland #dbct #dalrymplebaycoalterminal #MRC #PCL #PioneerCatchmentLandcare

17.01.2022 Tree planting day!!!! #dbct #mcc #vinescreekwetland #pioneercatchmentlandcare

16.01.2022 Last chance to RSVP! Let us know if you can make it by tomorrow please! We would love to see you next Tuesday for our Christmas celebration at Padaminka Nature Reserve

14.01.2022 Central Qld Coast Landcare Network members had the BEST day at the Finch Hatton Showgrounds today supporting the Reef Catchments- Glencore field day - Bring Your Land to Life. Big shout out to the Landcare crew on-ground: Peter Alden, Morgan Thomas, Lachlan McBride, Tom Crow and Nichole Zahra for all their hard work. The Team gave out a tonne of information about pest management, regenerative agriculture, soil health, the benefits of revegetating using local native species plus loads more. It fantastic to be out in the community doing what we do best.

13.01.2022 A big thank you to everyone who came out to one of our Great Barrier Reef Clean-up launch events at Harbour Beach in Mackay yesterday! We had such a great turn...out of dedicated volunteers from the community, including a number of kids who were absolute legends! Some of them had to practically be pulled away from the debris sorting area at the end of the day, whilst others took home treasures to re-purpose. Together we picked up 137.5kg and 40 bags of debris, a total of 3,031 items! We found the usual culprits, including 188 food packaging items and 175 lids. What was particularly shocking at this site, however, was the large amount of glitter/confetti scattered throughout the park and sand dunes. We also found 130 pieces of plastic shavings from ships/boats rubbing against the local jetties, and a number of OH&S tags, pictured below. Disappointingly, we found two Woolworths Ooshies, which people are apparently trailing as bait for a silly fishing trend on the internet! It was interesting to see that this site collected not only local litter, but also foreign items such as water bottles and packaging from overseas. All of this data was of course entered into the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) Database. We’d like to extend a massive thankyou to George Tonga, #Yuwibara Elder and member of the local Traditional Owner Reference Group (TORG), for Welcoming us onto Yuwi Lands and sharing his knowledge. A big shout out also to representatives from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Pioneer Catchment & Landcare Group Inc., Reef Catchments and Mackay Regional Council for attending on the day and assisting us with logistics for the event, as well as Y.A.W for the delicious lunch. We look forward to seeing you all again at another Mackay event! #AMDI Tangaroa Blue #LeaveItBetterThanYouFoundIt ABC Tropical North 7NEWS Mackay Star 101.9 Mackay Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Tangaroa Blue Great Barrier Reef Action Plan

11.01.2022 Landcare Members and Supporters - please join us next Tuesday for our Christmas break up #pcl #christmas2020

08.01.2022 LANDCARE YOUTH SUMMIT Take action in your local community with Landcare ONLINE Tuesday 1 December 2020 The Australian landscape is facing an uncertain future. The effects of climate change are impacting the natural environment. But what can young people do to make a difference?

07.01.2022 Warning: magpies swooping at the MNEC PCL will be keeping the pedestrian gate locked until further notice. The magpies appear as soon as you exit your vehicle if you park out the front of the MNEC. Apparently, people in orange shirts are not targeted. We recommend wearing orange and a wide brimmed hat and /or carry an umbrella when attending the nursery or PCL office.... #magpieswooping #pcl #mnec #mrc

07.01.2022 Check out this nursery activity this Saturday morning with Reef Catchments for Coastcare

07.01.2022 Helloooo VOLUNTEERS Are you: * Interested in mangrove ecology * willing to collect leaf litter samples from traps in the mangroves... * available once a month for 12 months. * Able to get yourself to one of 3 sites McCready’s Ck, Barnes Ck or the Pioneer River Volunteers will receive: - a copy of Australia’s Mangroves Book (valued at $50) - a free spot on one of our Earthwatch Daintree or Mackay mangrove citizen science/professional development expeditions in 2021 (over 18’s only - Valued at $550) - Bragging rights to tell your friends that you helped protect the local mangroves see: https://www.earthwatch.org.au/protecting-the-reefs-coastal- for more details. Please contact Jock Mackenzie from Earthwatch on 0407 578 807 for more information! Training is in MACKAY THIS WEEK ONLY!!!

06.01.2022 Do you have an OLD macadamia? You may be able to help a citizen science project!

03.01.2022 Tree planting day!!!! #dbct #mcc #MCCvinescreekwetland #pioneercatchmentlandcare