Tamborine Mountain Landcare
Border Ranges
Overview
Tamborine Mountain Landcare Inc. is committed to restoring, monitoring and maintaining biodiversity on Tamborine Mountain. Through its Corridors Regeneration Project TMLandcare aims to establish ecological corridors along all major creeks and create suitable habitat so that wildlife can cross the mountain at several locations, thus preserving and improving ecosystem functions.
TMLandcare is active on 19 rehabilitation sites located within the biodiversity corridor network which encompasses 4 catchments: Cedar, Tamborine, Guanaba and Sandy Creeks and their tributaries.
Activities include weed-eradication and control; restoration of riparian and other native habitat; water monitoring; flora and fauna surveys; digital mapping and GIS analysis; production of educational and information materials; as well as regular consultation with major stakeholders and SRRC officer and cooperation with other mountain organisations.
What we do
Restoration of connectivity in the landscape through rehabilitation of degraded habitat.- Cooperative partnerships and networking with a variety of stakeholders: public and private landholders, local schools, a number of community organizations, council environment officers, other landcare, bushcare and catchment groups and organisations, local business.
- Public information events.
- Development of educational materials.
- Installation of interpretive signage.
- Guided educational walks for schools.
- Monitoring and biodiversity surveys.
- Digital mapping and GIS analysis.
- Fundraising through volunteer-run Piccabeen bookshop.
- Planned establishment of nursery for native plant propagation.
- Publication of bi-annual newsletter “High Ground”.
- Maintenance of our website.
- Communication with members through regular email Newsflashes.
- Regular publication of articles in the local press.
- We are continuing to maintain and extend all previous rehabilitation work, and regularly add new sites to our network of corridors in order to achieve much improved connectivity and recreate a self-sustaining landscape.
What we have achieved
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Through working partnerships, rehabilitation is being conducted on 18 TMLandcare sites, 2 Rainforest Trust sites and numerous private properties in all four catchments, resulting in significant consolidation of the corridors. For example, almost 60% of the Cedar Creek corridor area is now consolidated by cooperative agreements between TMLandcare and private and public landholders. In the case of the Tamborine Creek corridor which mainly encompasses public land, 65% rehabilitation has been achieved so far. Similar encouraging results are being achieved in the other corridor catchments too. Maintenance and extension of this work is ongoing.
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One of the long-standing TMLandcare sites, the Esme Lahey Environmental Park in Licuala Drive, has been completely rehabilitated and has now been developed into a valuable educational resource boasting wheelchair-accessible, sealed pathways and interpretive signage. Guided school tours are regularly held at the park, complemented by a teachers’ manual on rainforest ecology.
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Annually public events are held to celebrate key environmental days such as National Tree Day and National Landcare Week.
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From time to time TMLandcare have successfully held photographic and art competitions, public information days and displays to raise awareness of the importance of the work Landcare undertakes.
Contact
Tel: 07 5545 1847
Email:
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Web: www.tamborinemtnlandcare.org.au
