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Our future according to OSCAR

2. July 2009

OSCAR is a non-partisan peak body of 22 Sunshine Coast community associations formed before the last Sunshine Coast council elections to support candidates who shared a vision similar to its members - a region that should develop sustainably. The overwhelming mandate given to Mayor Bob Abbot was a very clear signal that local residents wanted [...]

Barung Landcare is Transplanted!

5. March 2009

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Barung Landcare has moved lock, plant stock and barrel (pot) to the Maleny Community Precinct! The move has involved the careful transportation of more than 50,000 seedlings and trees to their new home. President Heather Spring reports on the move, and what’s next in store for the Range’s popular Landcare group. We have moved our complete [...]

Barung Landcare - Erosion Matters!

5. March 2009

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All the recent rain has caused running creeks, full dams and water collecting in low lying areas. Much of that water has been laden with silt and everyone who saw TV footage of the floods around Ingham would certainly have been aware of the brown water which inevitably flowed into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. [...]

Naturally in March with Kaia Angele

5. March 2009

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Goliath Stick Insect On many occasions when my family and I where walking on our property, we saw what appeared to be miniature silk fans lying on the ground. We couldn’t determine where they where from, but after much thought, the answer was simple - fairies do exist. However, we where disappointed, one morning in our garden [...]

Naturally… in February with Kaia Angele

4. February 2009

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The Wompoo Fruit-Dove is identified by its large size, rich purple throat, chest and upper belly, and yellow lower belly. February is usually the last month of its breeding season and it occurs in, or near rainforest, low elevation moist eucalypt forest and brush box forests. The wompoo has mostly green underparts, with a paler grey [...]

Foxes that fly! with Barung Landcare

4. February 2009

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If there’s one native animal which can generate heated discussion, it’s the flying fox. Their diet includes fruit, blossoms, nectar and sometimes leaves and at this time of year they are regular nightly visitors to the native fig trees and flowering eucalypts in our forests. In the morning, the ground underneath will be littered with [...]

The Pink Shower with Loors Landscaping

4. February 2009

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Cassia javanica - Pink Shower From a genus of over 500 species of herbs, shrubs and trees, Cassia javanica is indigenous to Indonesia. An exquisite broad spreading tree growing to a height of 12m with 12-15m spread in ideal conditions. It is briefly deciduous and more cold tolerant than Cassia grandis and Cassia fistula. The leaves are [...]

Environment will guide use of Maleny Precinct

9. September 2008

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In interviews this month with the Hinterland Times both Mayor Bob Abbot and Councillor Jenny McKay stress environmental values will be central to whatever happens on the Maleny Precinct land. Councillor Jenny McKay has been tasked by the Sunshine Coast Regional Council to set up a local advisory working group to resolve the components of a [...]

Looking after our wildlife

9. September 2008

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“I was always interested in animals”, says Carmel Givens.” As a child I brought every stray home. I was a rescuer. I remember writing a letter to a wildlife park in Africa when I was 12 asking for a job. They politely told me to contact them again when I was older”. Carmel is someone who [...]

How much can koalas bear?

27. August 2008

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It all started at the beginning of July with spirited opposition from the state member for Nicklin Peter Wellington. Peter wanted to stop logging in the western section of the Cooroy State Forest. So, the Queensland Government halted logging for a few days. Now it has decided logging will resume. The heated issue is all about [...]

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