We are excited to announce that we have moved into our new home at the Archerfield Wetlands District Park. Find us in The Wetlands Community Hub, 455 Bowhill Road, Durack. Our new home is surrounded by 150-hectares of beautiful parkland containing a variety of habitats including eucalypt forest, open grassland, freshwater wetlands and creeks. […]
OCCA has once again joined forces with the great team at Ocean Crusaders for a waterway clean-up along the Oxley Creek. The clean-up took place over two days, on day one Ocean Crusaders and their dedicate volunteers conducted a ‘hardcore clean’ collecting large rubbish items, including 13 tyres, using their specialist barge. On day two, the community rallied together for a
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Prof Carla Catterall spoke at the Oxley Creek Catchment Association general meeting last night to present and discuss the advantages of revegetating a quasi-natural rainforest environment along the creeks. Prof Carla Catterall has allowed us to show you all the powerpoint display from the night, which you can find here
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Oxley Creek Transformation Pty Ltd (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brisbane City Council) has prepared a draft Master Plan for a $100 million Project to ‘revitalise this corridor, transforming it into a world-class green lifestyle and leisure destination’. Four priority projects proposed for the short to medium-term (0-10 years) are listed below: Multi-use trials along 20
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‘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
