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25.01.2022 A few of our favourite backyard bird snaps from across Queensland! Aren't we lucky to have such wonderful wildlife right in our backyards!

24.01.2022 If you have time on Saturday morning we recommend joining The World As I Am volunteer team with some enjoyable weeding at Woodstock. The site is a short trip from Brisbane and Gold Coast. Woodstock is a great community asset and is increasingly important to our koala’s and other wildlife in a changing local landscape.

24.01.2022 The FrogID helping scientists get a snapshot of what frogs are returning after the bushfires. 45 species of frogs recorded, some rare and threatened. FrogID is a free app you can download and submit frog calls and sightings and help contribute to citizen science.

23.01.2022 SEPT 1 - NATIONAL WATTLE DAY Have you seen the wattles blooming around Queensland yet? Australia's national floral emblem - blooming in Spring, boasting rich diversity & thriving for 35million years. Throughout history it has been a symbol of renewal, unity and resilience. ... The Golden Wattle (Acacia pycnantha) is the official national floral emblem.

23.01.2022 If you’re in the Tully area and would like to help us rebuild cassowary habitat, come along and join us in kicking off the summer 2020 planting season at Gurrbum! Details: When: Saturday 21st November, 8am. Feel free to come earlier. Where: Gurrbum reserve, Old Tully Road, Smiths Gap. ... Morning tea is provided. Contact C4 on 4068 7197 or email [email protected] for more information. This event is funded through the #communitysustainabilityactiongrant rant #DES. brettacorp inc. C4 - Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation- Box 132 MissionBeach

22.01.2022 Look at this beauty! Jun Matsui’s photo of the southern cassowary was the winner of the Bird Portrait category in the 2020 BirdLife Australia Photography Awards. With its brilliant blue and purple head and neck, red wattles, amber eyes and long eyelashes, the endangered southern cassowary can only be found in the lush rainforest of the Wet Tropics in Far North Queensland. So this majestic bird has a chance to survive, we’ve been purchasing, protecting and revegetating vital ...cassowary habitat in partnership with C4 Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation, Rainforest Rescue Greenfleet @terrainWT and Queensland Environment Department #qtfn #biodiversityisourbusiness #queenslandwildlife #cassowaryconservation

21.01.2022 We’re so excited to announce that our long term holding, Avoid Island, was added to a crucial network of climate change refuges that protect surrounding ecosystems and help save vulnerable species. We’ve partnered with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and Koinmerburra Aboriginal Corporation to develop opportunities on the island to assist in the protection of the flatback turtles, more than 80 species of birds and a diverse range of marine life. It’s a great read: https://ww...w.barrierreef.org//vital-turtle-nesting-site-avo #conservation #climatechange #biodiversity #turtles #revolvingfund

20.01.2022 Pullen Pullen Reserve in West Queensland has become the first ever wildlife Reserve in QLD!! Well done guys! Check it out here

19.01.2022 Head on down to the World As I Am Planting Day at Tamborine this Saturday 30 January 2021! Help with the maintenance of the Koala revegetation corridor. The understorey contains Lantana which inhibits Koalas movement, and smothers native vegetation from germinating. So, the job at hand is to remove this Lantana. Time: 8.15am at carpark. Works begin at 8.30am... Address: 231-315 Plunkett Rd, Tamborine QLD 4270 What you need to bring: Hat Long Sleeved Shirt and Trousers Boots or old pair of sneakers Gloves Sunscreen Plenty of Water Snack food (if you require anything between meals) Bedding or sleeping bag (Sheets, blankets and pillows) Drinks for the evening See more

19.01.2022 Today, in honour of Wild Koala Day, we bring you a story with a happy ending. Billi, a small dispersal aged female koala, was found hiding in the leaves of a palm tree safe from the yapping jaws of the dogs below. Her journey from rescue to release is a tribute to the amazing partnerships that operate throughout South-East Queensland. A huge thank you to Wildcare Australia Inc. and Australia Zoo who facilitated her rescue and care. We also want to acknowledge Greenfleet and Queensland Environment Department - Billi’s new home is thanks to the tireless work of many partnerships making a difference to koala habitat throughout South-East Qld. #wildkoaladay Noosa and District Landcare #koalasofinstagram #koalarelease #habitat #biodiversity

19.01.2022 The flatback turtle nesting season has officially started. Turtle monitoring cameras set up along the beach at QTFN's Avoid Island have captured the first turtle track of the season. Can you see it?! Later this year QTFN will head up to the island and conduct our annual monitoring!

17.01.2022 Look who we found scoping out the camera’s at our Koala Crossing Property at the beginning of the year

15.01.2022 This #ThreatenedSpeciesDay let's be a strong voice for nature!

14.01.2022 Butterflies out, binoculars out! Thanks to a Community Sustainability Action Grant from the Department of Environment and Science, QTFN, MacAg Alliance and four landholders from our partner properties north of Goondiwindi are working to restore habitat for the endangered Bulloak Jewel butterfly. Almost 50mm of rain on the farms means landholders are out searching for butterflies and their food plants already. They'll be joined this month by a team of national experts including Don Sands, one of the nations leading butterfly conservation experts.

14.01.2022 World Cassowary Day is a great chance to celebrate all of the wonderful things about our endangered Southern Cassowary friends! The Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is a large, flightless bird with impressive colouring and strong, dinosaur-like feet. Not only are cassowaries critical to the survival of the rainforest because they spread the seeds of the unique rainforest trees, but by protecting their home, we protect the homes of many other unique and endangered animals including Tree Kangaroos, Spectacled Flying Foxes and Mahogany Gliders. Not to mention the extremely ancient plant families found nowhere else on Earth.

14.01.2022 Spring is in the air! And we all know that means nesting season! Many of our native animals’ nest in hollow-bearing trees. These are trees that over years (we’re talking 100+ years) age and develop hollows that make for cosy, safe nesting grounds for many parrots, possums, gliders and the kookaburra to name a few. A problem our hollow nesting friends are facing, is a shortage of hollows in the absence of large age-old trees lost to land clearing. Last week, 40 nest boxes w...ere set up across our Koala Crossing property to help fill the gaps and provide more nesting grounds. We will monitor them closely to see what makes themselves at home and be sure to keep you all updated. We’ve got different boxes made specifically for different species from the smaller feather tailed glider to the rainbow lorikeet and the largest boxes made for our forest owls! A huge thanks to the guys from Ipswich Men's Shed for making the nest boxes, and to Jackson from AXIS Contracting and Evette for helping put the nest boxes up! Absolute legends! #KoalaCrossing #nestboxes

14.01.2022 QTFN ecologists enjoyed a day out in the field, touring a potential nature refuge property with the owner & Gold Coast City Council. Neighbouring Springbrook National Park and boasting beautiful rainforest flooded with bird song and age old trees the property is a great candidate for a nature refuge. Nature refuges are a fantastic way for private land owners to invest in the protection of Queensland’s natural places

13.01.2022 Just a friendly reminder for everyone to keep an eye out for our furry friends! This little guy was spotted on the side of the road on North Stradbroke Island the other night!! So cute! #koala #stradbroke

12.01.2022 Lyrebirds as ecosystem, engineers - The Superb Lyrebird acts as an ecosystem engineer by its displacement of leaf litter and soil when foraging for food. Ecosystem engineers exist in many environments. By disturbing the soil, they create new habitats or alter existing habitats, in ways that affect other organisms, such as plants and fungi. Do they really move more litter and soil than other digging animals?... Have a read here! See more

12.01.2022 Here's to the mums! We know how tough you do it and we hope you were spoiled rotten. From our home to yours, we hope you enjoyed a relaxing and well deserved break on Mother's Day yesterday.

11.01.2022 What do you do when you need tens of thousands of trees to help heal our World Heritage listed Daintree rainforest!?! You build a BIG nursery! That's just what our partnership are doing on Lot 83 in the Daintree. The first step is learning from the experts. Here is Branden, Marine, Tony Parkes OA and founder of Rainforest Rescue and native nursery expert Mark Dunphy of Firewheel Rainforest Nursery and Big Scrub Landcare Inc.

11.01.2022 We wanted to extend a big thank you to Greenfleet for hosting their latest Supporter's Day Planting at our long-term holding property, Aroona. Is there a better way to build camaraderie with your office team than enjoying the fresh air and the outdoors? The 1350 native trees that are now at home in the soil are a credit to the tireless effort of Greenfleet supporters Adopt & Embrace, AXIS Contracting, Hanson, Interleasing and Smartgroup - thank you all for a successful day. These trees will grow to capture carbon and help restore biodiversity in the area.

10.01.2022 Swift parrots (Critically Endangered) seen in Toowoomba for first time in ages it’s one of our rarest birds with 1000-2000 expected in the wild. Five of the critically endangered birds were spotted at Picnic Point lookout in Toowoomba. "It's the thrill of seeing a bird that not many people see, a bird that is so rare"... Have a read here!

09.01.2022 Merry merry king of the bush is he! Did you know Kookaburras have quite the diverse diet, including snakes?!

09.01.2022 Eucalyptus regnans, known more commonly as Mountain Ash or Swamp Gum, can grow to 100 metres tall and live for more than 500 years. For years this species of trees held the record for tallest tree. However, just recently that record was beaten by 30cm. Can you guess how tall the tallest tree is!? ... Have a read of this article here: https://theconversation.com/photos-from-the-field-capturing

09.01.2022 At our recent Team Development Day, our QTFN staff enjoyed a rewarding experience helping out in the kitchen at Fareshare. Operating Australia’s largest charity kitchens, Fareshare rescues surplus food and cooks free, nutritious meals for people doing it tough. Our team helped prepare and make an impressive 1983 healthy and delicious meals that will were then donated free to front line charities such as soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges and community food banks. If you can donate time, food, services or funds to power their kitchen, go to https://www.fareshare.net.au. They would love to hear from you.

08.01.2022 Before and after shots - AXIS Contracting clearing out a flood debris dam last week at Peak Crossing! Looking so much better now, thanks guys!

08.01.2022 Congratulations to our finance and accounting partners Sammut Bulow Bennett Partners who were named in the AFR’s Top 100 Australian Accounting Firms. This is recognition of the invaluable support and services you provide to clients like us.

07.01.2022 It's #ThreatenedSpeciesDay and as is tradition QTFN joined in on the Threatened Species Bake Off! The Binna Burra daisy or Border ranges daisy is found on the border between Queensland and New South Wales. The daisy is range restricted which makes is particularly susceptible to climate change. Felicity wanted to make sure that we don’t forget about the small species, that are impacted by climate change. QTFN protects Grey Headed Flying Foxes on our Aroona Station. These c...uties are listed as Vulnerable under the EPBC Act. Main threatening process are destruction of camps, entanglement on fences and conflict with humans. Georgie picked this species to say let's share our suburban flowers and trees with them and give them a helping hand! QTFN protect these big cuties on a number of nature refuges we helped protect. Ecologist Renée also sees them regularly in her backyard in Mount Nebo. They are listed as Endangered under the EPBC and Critically Endangered in Queensland. Renée wanted to make them to remind everyone that they may look like cane toads, but people mistakenly killing them in their backyards is causing a major threat to their persistence. #TSBakeOff Threatened Species Commissioner

07.01.2022 THUMBS UP FOR CASSOWARY CONSERVATION | More than 700 hectares of cassowary habitat in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area has been secured through QTFN’s Revolving Fund since 2004. This includes four of QTFN's current properties Daintree Lot 83, purchased in 2020, Gurrbum Reserve, Cassowary Connection Nature Refuge and Ant Plant West Nature Refuge. Plus through QTFN’s involvement with the Queensland Government’s Nature Refuges Program, we have facilitated the long-term protection of a further 978 hectares of cassowary habitat on privately owned land in the region. #qtfn #biodiversityisourbusiness #queenslandwildlife #cassowaryconservation

07.01.2022 All female crew from the Girringun Aboriginal Corporation working on country and on the front line for mahogany glider conservation! "I enjoy it. I like being out on country, I like learning from the elders, and I like passing on the knowledge that I'd learnt onto the younger generation" Burning promotes new regrowth , new food sources, and helps to encourage new den trees to be formed and keeps those habitats open!... Check out with these amazing women have done here: https://www.abc.net.au//girringun-aboriginal-rang/12612930

05.01.2022 If you’re in the Tamborine area The World As I Am could use your help to maintain the Koala habitat corridor, come along and help the Koala's this weekend! Details: When: Saturday 30th December, 8:15am at carpark Where: 231-315 Plunkett Rd, Tamborine QLD 4270.

05.01.2022 QTFN’s Christina Cork and Felicity Shapland, last week joined over 31 volunteers from C4 and the Tully and Mission Beach communities at a Community Planting Day at Gurrbum Reserve. More than 200 native trees and plant species were planted, adding to the more than 6,000 trees that have already been planted since QTFN and C4 joined forces to purchase the property last year and secure vital habitat for the endangered southern cassowary. Once revegetated, Gurrbum Reserve will ...form a critical movement corridor for the cassowary and other native species between Japoon National Park, Tully Gorge National Park and the Walter Hill Range Conservation Park. So proud to be part of this project in partnership with C4 - Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation- Box 132 MissionBeach, Queensland Environment Department, Greenfleet, Terrain NRM brettacorp inc. and Queensland National Parks #qtfn #biodiversityisourbusiness #queenslandwildlife #cassowaryconservation

05.01.2022 A lot goes on after dark, but how the moon influence animals is a fun question. From predator-prey interactions to birdsong, changes in the moon (illuminating the sky on a full moon, and providing the darkness of night on a new moon) are influencing wildlife behaviour. Understanding these trends may help scientist better understand how and when to survey nocturnal wildlife. Depending on when and where we venture out to collect information about species, and what methods we use (camera traps, spotlighting, and non-lethal trapping) we might have higher or lower chances of detecting certain species. And this might affect our insights into species and ecosystems, and how we manage them."

04.01.2022 For 25 years the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Queensland took final year Ecology students 18h west to Idalia National Park to learn about outback ecology. COVID meant students had to learn all the same skills in their suburban backyards. The only thing that couldn't be replaced was a core element of the course - a chance to be out in the bush, chatting about conservation around a fire under the stars. That's where QTFN stepped in. Outback ecology stu...dents spent their weekend at Aroona instead. The UQ students and staff have analyzed their results and found evidence of potentially seven different microbat species on Aroona. These include the Little Bent-wing Bat (Miniopterus australis), the Large Forest Bat (Vespadelus darlington) which roosts in hollows of old Eucalypt trees (both pictured), and the only species whose sounds can be heard by human ears, the larger Tadarida australis. Read more here: https://qtfn.org.au/a-powerful-partnership-3/

04.01.2022 It’s Wednesday and another opportunity to share our love of wildlife. Last week, we were very excited to announce that we’re working with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to restore and protect vital turtle nesting site on our long-term holding property, Avoid Island. To celebrate, this week’s Wildlife Wednesday is the Flatback Turtle - Natator depressus. The flatback turtle gets its name from its relatively flat, smooth shell. In adulthood, they are usually yellow-grey or ...olive-grey in colour, with the underside a pale yellow. Flatbacks are a medium-sized marine turtle that can measure approximately one metre long and can weigh up to 90kg. The Flatback turtle lays approximately 50 eggs per nest, the fewest of any marine turtle. On average, 2-4 new females enter adulthood and nest on Avoid Island per year. That’s out of over 1000 hatchlings that were part of their cohort. We believe our oldest turtle returning to the island is about 70 years old. Queensland Environment Department #conservation #flatback #turtles #biodiversity #avoidisland #wildlifewednesday

04.01.2022 Slap on a hat and some sunscreen and head down to the Community Planting Day at Gurrbum Reserve on Saturday 21 November 2020. You’ll be joining like-minded volunteers from the Tully and Mission Beach communities, QTFN and our partners C4, @QldEnvironment, @GreenfleetAustralia, @TerrainWT and @Brettacorp.org.au and @qldnationalparks to restore vital habitat for the endangered southern cassowary and other native species. Event Details... When: 8.00am, Saturday 21 November 2020 Where: Gurrbum Reserve, Old Tully Road, Smiths Gap Morning tea and lunch will be provided. Bring sunsafe clothes, closed in shoes and water bottles. Visit the QTFN website for more information: https://qtfn.org.au/gurrbum/ The planting day is being run by C4 - Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation-Box 132 MissionBeach and funded by #communitysustainabilityactiongrant #DES. #qtfn #biodiversityisourbusiness #queenslandwildlife #cassowaryconservation

04.01.2022 Happy Friyay! The #aussiebirdcount is just 3 days away and we have a fun game for you to play! Keep an eye on our socials for our posts about bird week and get ready to play! Held between the 19-25th October, the Aussie Backyard Bird Count is a great way to connect with the birds in your backyard no matter where you are - a local park, a suburban backyard, the beach or a forest!... #aussiebirdcount

03.01.2022 Don't forget on Saturday morning to join The World As I Am volunteer team with some enjoyable weeding at Woodstock. The site is a short trip from Brisbane and Gold Coast. Woodstock is a great community asset and is increasingly important to our koala’s and other wildlife in a changing local landscape.

02.01.2022 A fantastic partnership taking us one step closer to helping our World Heritage Daintree Rainforest grow! QTFN and Rainforest Rescue plan to create a nursery which will provide training and learning opportunities for Indigenous rangers on country, as well as showcase best practice rainforest restoration in the world heritage listed setting.

02.01.2022 200KG OF MARINE DEBRIS CLEARED| This year, QTFN wrapped up a three-year marine debris clean-up project funded through a Queensland Environment Department Community Sustainability Action Grant. Over the course of the project, 200kg of marine debris, including plastic bottle caps, commercial fishing debris and plastic toothbrushes, was cleared from turtle nesting beaches. #qtfn #biodiversityisourbusiness #oceanplastic #beachcleanup

02.01.2022 Can you guess who left this animal dropping below the old blue gum tree (Eucalyptus tereticornis)? SCAT! aka: seriously cool animal tracking, is a great way to know an animal is in the area when you can’t find the animal itself. (spoiler: it’s a koala scat). Koalas are a great example of when scat (animal droppings) can be used to infer a species presence. By searching for scat the ground around a koala food tree (a variety of Eucalyptus tree species) we can locate where koalas are moving within our properties. When a species occurs in low densities, is cryptic or has a very large home range, the effort taken to search and locate an individual can be quite extensive. But with scat, we can narrow down our search. If you find a fresh scat, quick - look up!

01.01.2022 Get ready for the #AussieBirdCount!

01.01.2022 Nature Journaling with the Paperbark Writer The perfect excuse to get out in nature and kick back. We had intended to have Paula the Paperbark Writer out for a nature journaling workshop for Plant Camp this year. But never fear, you can follow along at home with her handy tutorials online. https://youtu.be/OuMD1CDFDEs

01.01.2022 Bushfire recovery continues nest boxes to provide shelter, helping bring animals back into recovering habitat. The nest boxes will be monitored to see what can be learnt about their value in helping wildlife recovery "You've got to get the right box for the right species because there's an enormous amount of competition out there in nature and you have to have small holes for the little gliders so predators like the goannas can't get into the boxes and gobble up the bubs...." Read more here!!