Community Engagement Team Updates
Trivia Night
We are gearing up for our Trivia night on October 11th 2025. We will have a Granite Belt Fauna and Flora theme – so get your decorated hats ready for the competition.
Please contact Geraldine Community@gbsan.org.au if you can help out or donate raffle prizes.
Location TBC. Bookings available soon.
Pub Chat
Come and find out what is happening with our projects and contribute ideas or just have a chat. 6 September 5pm, O'Mara's Hotel out the back.
GBSAN Biodiversity – Landscape Linkages Project
The Landscape Linkages Project is progressing to the next stage, holding neighbour gatherings to create environmental and social connections. We are starting with hosting our first gathering for the Accommodation Creek corridor, Lyra on 21 August.
The aim of these gatherings is to encourage neighbouring landholders to work together to plan what needs to be done to enhance bushland connections to create wildlife corridors. We will also listen to landholder's ideas and questions about the best way to go about this, as well as inviting guest speakers with expertise and experience.
Contact Geraldine at community@gbsan.org.au if you are interested in hosting a neighbourhood gathering in your neck of the woods. We will assist with the morning tea as well as sourcing a speaker with expertise for your area.
GBSAN Bushcare Group
Members of our Bushcare Group were lucky to receive training from Paul Revie, Senior Ecologist with Friends of Parks Qld to learn how to set up trail cameras to monitor numbers of spotted tailed quolls in Broadwater State Forest.
Weeding Honeysuckle
We had a good turnout with 8 Bushcarers, when we assisted Jeanie and Bruce to weed honeysuckle at their Greenlands property. Jeanie and Bruce have been working hard to eradicate this invasive weed in their remnant forest which is home to koalas, echidnas, many raptors and rufus fantails amongst many other native plants and animals. This forest has not been touched for over 100 years but the invasive honeysuckle vine has been making a march.
Jeanie is strategic with areas weeded and had good success with mainly hand pulling this vine as the photo below shows.
This area was covered in honeysuckle 6 months ago and now native bushes and trees have a chance to sprout.
The area we targeted is near the dam and hand weeding instead of chemical herbicide is preferred so as not to affect the aquatic life.
Before -
After weeding
We always have a delicious morning tea and good chats
Contact us at community@gbsan.org.au if you have a project for the Bushcare group or would like to join the group.
Upcoming Bushcare dates:
10 August – 9am to 1:00pm – collecting quoll monitoring cameras in Broadwater State Forest and learning more about mapping.
20 August and 8 October – 9am to 12:30pm – Weeding around the endangered Black Grevillea (Grevillea Scortichinii) at Thulimbah as well as assisting the Stanthorpe Rare Wildflower Consortium to survey these plants.
September and November – Weeding Accommodation Creek Riparian Zone
October – Tree planting at Rick and Mary's Nature refuge
Geraldine Hollingsworth, Convenor CET and Landscape Linkages