‘Logan City Council funds a free ongoing weed management program for landholders whose properties back on to the creek. The project will be delivered in partnership with the Oxley Creek Catchment Association (OCCA).’ If you live in Logan City Council area and have or know someone with a property backs onto Crewes Creek and you […]
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Casting our mind back to February 25th, a beautiful sunny morning sandwiched between the intense wet weather period, OCCA had the opportunity to host volunteers from three different Rotary groups for a tree planting event at the Common. Around 40 members from the Brisbane Taylor Bridge, Brisbane Inner West and Archerfield Rotary clubs joined dedicated
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The weekend of March 11-12 saw the conclusion to concluding efforts for our Crewes Creek Weed Management Workshops that had occurred over several months. Guests at the workshop saw OCCA superstar Josh Hall give a presentation on the main stage in front of over a hundred locals at Logan City Council’s Conservation Incentives Program Day.
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This coming July OCCA will be hosting the biennial Peaks to Points Festival (P2P) thanks to generous funding from Brisbane City Council and Festival sponsors. Peaks to Points is a celebration of community efforts in protecting and caring for the environment in catchments on the south side of the Brisbane River. The Festival features two
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Do you have a weed problem on your property? Are you interested in receiving expert advice and support to help manage them? Logan City Council is partnering with Oxley Creek Catchment Association to provide the opportunity for free ongoing weed management support for 10 Crewes Creek landholders. Industry experts will work with successful
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For the past few months, members of OCCA have been planning work around contributing to the citizen science Feather Map project. Run through the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), the project involves collecting bird feathers in wetland areas across Australia, which are then mailed away and examined via nuclear techniques. Isotopes in the
This year OCCA participated in the Sea World Research and Rescue Community Marine Debris (CMD) Grant Program. The CMD Program provides grants for waterway clean-up projects in South East Queensland. Both Sea World and Healthy Land and Waterway sponsor the CMD Program. As part of the projects, data on the litter collected is recorded in
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Over two weekends in July, OCCA hosted tree planting events and a litter clean-up for volunteers from the Tzu Chi Foundation. Both tree planting events occurred at Granard Wetlands; the first of those happened on the warm Sunday afternoon of the 23rd. With equipment for planting provided by OCCA, approximately 40-50 high school student volunteers
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