Habitat Brisbane - bushcare volunteer groups
Learn how you can help care for your local environment and undertake bushcare activities. Volunteer at a bushcare group.
About the Habitat Brisbane program
The Habitat Brisbane program is a Council community bushcare volunteer program.
The program helps to:
- encourage and support community involvement in a greener, more sustainable Brisbane
- assist volunteers to discover and become part of a local bushcare group
- preserve and enhance our natural areas across Brisbane
- provide hands-on experience in conservation activities
- promote biodiversity in bushland, parks, wetlands and waterways.
What do bushcare groups do?
Habitat Brisbane supports volunteers in 150 bushcare groups. These groups carry out restoration on Council land to help protect bushland, parks, wetlands and waterways across Brisbane.
Join a bushcare group to make a difference. Get involved in activities that aim to conserve and restore our natural habitats and ecosystems.
As a part of a bushcare group, you can:
- participate in weed removal, native plant revegetation and mulching
- engage in citizen science projects and flora and fauna surveys
- help build community partnerships and relationships.
Join a bushcare group near you
Search for your suburb in the map to find a bushcare group near you.
You’ll find:
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information about their projects
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contact details for general enquiries
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how to register your interest as a volunteer.
Bushcare volunteer stories
Discover the stories of our passionate bushcare volunteers who have found joy in creating a greener Brisbane.
Learn about restoring local environments to foster a strong sense of community, their experiences showcase the rewards of caring for our bushland.
Watch our videos to get a glimpse of the work our volunteers do and their individual bushcare journeys.
Video: Habitat Brisbane volunteer, Stephanie Ford - Arnwood Place Bushcare Group, Annerley
>>STEPHANIE FORD: I've been bushcare volunteering here at Arnwood Place, and I am probably most proud that we still have small birds on the site.
What inspired me to become involved with bushcare was walking around this site, quite a few times with my husband, and we were birdwatchers and we'd come down and we would try to see what birds we could see closest to our home.
It's one thing to see birds in a national park, but if you go to the piece of bush nearest to your home and try to see what the best thing, the best bird you can see there, that's quite interesting.
But there are certainly moments that are like milestones. Like this little area here, for example, used to be all covered in glycine and we cleared all that weed and planted natives and now they are getting a good height on them.
It's just beautiful as well to have the creek in the background while you are working. Ducks are there and moorhens, and there are a lot of turtles in this creek, particularly in summer, you notice them.
Also, when we are working, we plant a lot of vegetation on the banks to try and improve water quality, and we spend a bit of time removing garbage from the banks as well. So every time I see a little native plant that is coming up by itself and I free it up and give it some space to grow, I know I'm making a difference and that is just so satisfying.
[end screen] Find out how to get involved by searching 'habitat' at brisbane.qld.gov.au.
Video: Koala drinking stations with Mike Fox - Fox Gully Bushcare Group, Mt Gravatt
>> MIKE FOX: So, at the moment, we’ve got a koala drinker project underway to see if providing water for koalas will make a difference on the mountain.
This photo came in last night from the cameras that monitor it, and there is a koala climbing up the tree, past the drinker.
So we have got kolas using the drinkers, brush-tailed possums using the drinkers, brushtails with babies, koalas with babies, friarbirds, king parrots, fairy-wrens, you name it.
Everyone is using those water sources.
So it’s really… Now we are looking at what we can do to make it long-term. Sort of 10 years, 20 years.
[end screen] Find out how to get involved by searching ‘habitat’ at brisbane.qld.gov.au.
Frequently asked questions
Bushcare helps Brisbane achieve its goal of becoming a greener and more sustainable city.
This is done through the preservation and restoration of natural habitats and ecosystems.
The Habitat Brisbane bushcare groups care for local bushland. Our volunteers help with various activities that help save and restore our natural habitat areas.
To find a bushcare group near you, search for your suburb in our map.