Habitat Brisbane groups - southern suburbs

Arnwood Place Bushcare Group maintains a major riparian revegetation area that was planted in 2001 and 2003 by Council, Norman Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee, and the local community. The group goals are to reduce erosion along the banks of Norman Creek, improve habitat for native animals, and involve local people in an enjoyable and social outdoor activity. Norman Creek has a long history of disturbance, so the group does planting in addition to weed control.

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Habitat Brisbane volunteer, Stephanie Ford - Arnwood Place Bushcare Group

Contact details
For more information or to join, email Stephanie Ford.

This group works in an urban park at the corner of Lagonda Street and Clive Street, Annerley. The bushcare volunteers aim to rezone the park, control weeds, regenerate the wetland/creek site and establish indigenous flora in appropriate areas of the park.

Contact details
For more information, send an email to lagondabushcare@yahoo.com or check the group's Facebook or Instagram pages.

The Doulton-Alfred Park Bushcare Group carries out weed control and revegetation work between Doulton Street and Alfred Street in Calamvale. This project will help control weeds and provide important habitat for local wildlife.

Contact details
For more information, phone Michael Ryan on 0417 627 943.

Working in parkland along the Brisbane River, this group concentrates on revegetating the creek line that runs through the park. Their work focuses on weed control and revegetation of rainforest species, including the endangered angle-stemmed myrtle (Gossia gonoclada). This project will help control weeds and provide important habitat for local wildlife.

This group meets the fourth Sunday of the month from 8.30am and new volunteers are always welcome.

Contact details
For more information, contact Marguerite Renouf via 0478 220 551 or send an email.

Working in Benarrawa Park at Allen Street, Corinda, this group focuses on rehabilitating the banks of a tributary of Oxley Creek. The park is a designated recovery site for the endangered angle-stemmed myrtle (Gossia gonoclada).

Working bees are held on the last Saturday of each month from 9am-12 noon.

Contact details
For more information, contact Noel Standfast on 0417 703 442 or send an email.

The aim of this group is to restore and regenerate the natural bushland from Francis Outlook down to Horace Window Reserve on the Brisbane River riverfront. This will provide an enhanced ecosystem for native flora and fauna. The group is also encouraging neighbours to treat weeds on their properties that are affecting the reserve.

This group meets regularly on the second Sunday of the month 8-10am in summer and 8.30-10.30am in winter, and welcomes new volunteers.

Contact details
For more information, contact Carmen Mendel on 0412470769 or send an email.

The bushcare group is working to restore riparian vegetation along Oxley Creek. This project involves weed control, erosion, and revegetation of wetland, open forest, and dry rainforest species. The park is also home to the endangered angle-stemmed myrtle (Gossia gonoclada). The group is restoring habitat to assist in the recovery of this species.

Working bees are held on the first Saturday of each month with morning tea to follow - in summer from 7.30-9.30am and in winter from 8-10am.

Contact details
For more information, contct Marie Hollingworth on 0408 465 591 or send an email.

The Wishart Outlook Bushcare Group is working along the upper reaches of Bulimba Creek in the Maisie Dixon Park, Eight Mile Plains. The site is located at two of the eight main tributaries: Bulimba Creek East and Bulimba Creek West. The group seeks to enhance native riverbank vegetation to establish a corridor of quality habitat linking to the Wishart Bushcare site on the northern side of the creek.

Contact details
For more information, phone Melissa Walker on 0433 773 034.

The Faulkner Park Bushcare Group is revegetating parts of this mixed-use park adjoining the Brisbane River at Graceville. This area features a mixture of dry rainforest, open forest, riparian creek line vegetation, and large open spaces. The group's emphasis is on providing additional habitat for native birds, which need larger areas of dense vegetation to avoid predators and hold their own against aggressive miners.

The group usually meets on the second Sunday of each month, from 8.30am to 12noon, and new volunteers are welcome to join.

Contact details
For more information, contact Jane O'Sullivan on 0427 420 743 or send an email.

This group volunteers their time looking after a small patch of land off Fraser Terrace, aiming to remove weeds and enhance the biodiversity of Highgate Hill.

Contact details
For more information, email Gail.

This group established a bushcare site at the end of Dauphin Terrace on the edge of the Brisbane River in early 1995. Members encourage the regrowth of local plant species, with an emphasis on dry rainforest species, to provide a viable habitat for local fauna. They also raise awareness in the surrounding community about the need to restore and protect local bushland.

Contact details
For more information, contact Mark Read on 0402 541 041 or send an email. 

This group works to restore riparian vegetation along Ekibin Creek at Holland Park. Activities include controlling environmental weeds and revegetating with local native plant species.

The group meets on the last Sunday of each month from 7.30-9.30am.

Contact details
For more information, contact Sue Akeroyd on 0415 291 225 or send an email.

Working in Kev Hooper Park, Inala, this group brings the community together to restore a tributary of Blunder Creek. This site is home to a variety of wildlife, including freshwater shrimps, turtles, frogs, and possums. The park's many large, hollow-bearing eucalypts support a large and diverse native bird population.

Contact details 
For more information, send an email to the Habitat Brisbane team.

This group is rehabilitating the one-kilometre open-space corridor between Moolabin Park and the corner of Vendale Avenue and Tarragindi Road, Moorooka, to create an important corridor between Toohey Forest and Moolabin Creek.

Contact details
For more information, phone John Hegerty on 07 3892 7426.

Fox Gully Bushcare Group is working to consolidate, restore and link the habitat of Mount Gravatt Outlook Reserve. Activities include restoring degraded areas adjoining private properties and working with property owners to build wildlife corridor links to Roly Chapman Bushland Reserve. With truckloads of weeds and rubbish removed and the most degraded areas replanted, the focus has now changed to natural regeneration, which the group is supporting by removing and composting weeds onsite, stabilising slopes, and then letting nature take over.

The work is informed by extensive flora and fauna research conducted by the group, which has been used to support revegetation, ongoing community education, and installation of habitat infrastructure (e.g. nest boxes used by squirrel gliders, kookaburras, and rainbow lorikeets).

Working bees are held from 7.30am on Tuesdays.

Videos

• Habitat tripods with Mike Fox - Fox Gully Bushcare Group
• Koala drinking stations with Mike Fox - Fox Gully Bushcare Group
• Volunteering with Habitat Brisbane - Mt Gravatt

Contact details
For more information, contact Michael Fox on 0408 769 405, or send an email.

MEG formed in early 1999 with a charter that includes lobbying for the protection of bushland in the Mt Gravatt area and undertaking bushland management activities in local parkland. The group works at Gertrude Petty Place in Mount Gravatt Bushland Reserve and employs gentle bush restoration practices to retain and protect habitat linkages between bushland on Mount Gravatt and the Bulimba Creek corridor.

Contact details
For more information, contact Brett Dugdale on 07 3219 4061 or send an email.

This group is working to restore the banks of Salvin Creek between Cavendish and Pine Mountain Roads. Activities carried out by the group include weeding, planting of local native plants, and erosion control.

Contact details
For more information, contact Ken Edie on 0407 361 686 or send an email.

This group is active at the eastern end of Cliveden Avenue, Corinda/Oxley, and has a strong regeneration focus.  They are working in remnant bushland along the banks of Oxley Creek to reduce the weed burden and thus assisting the various plant communities to return to healthy function through natural regeneration.  It is a very interesting process to take part in.  The area is a refuge and designated recovery site for the endangered angle-stemmed myrtle (Gossia gonoclada). 

Contact details
For more information, phone Carole Bristow on 07 3379 1453 or message 0409 495 017.

If you are looking for Habitat Brisbane groups in this area, you may also be interested in Pennywort Creek Bushcare Group.

The Lawson and Kendall Street Bushcare Group is working to improve the resilience and diversity of riparian vegetation in parkland along Oxley Creek at Kendall Street and its nearby tributary, Mayfly Creek, at Lawson Street, Oxley. The group aims to achieve this by controlling weeds to reduce competition with existing native plant species and to undertake strategic plantings of native species to better manage creek bank stability along the Kendall Street reach of Oxley Creek.

Regular monthly working bees are scheduled for the third Sunday of the month (except December) starting at 8am, with volunteers usually starting near the Kendall Street canoe ramp.

Contact details
For more information, contact Rod Goldsworthy via 0409 050 249 or send an email.

This group is active at the eastern end of Cliveden Avenue, Corinda/Oxley, and has a strong regeneration focus. They are working in remnant bushland along the banks of Oxley Creek to reduce the weed burden and assist the various plant communities to return to healthy function through natural regeneration. The area is a refuge and designated recovery site for the endangered angle-stemmed myrtle (Gossia gonoclada). Working bees are held on the third Saturday of each month from 6am from September to April. There is a 6.30am start in the winter months.

Contact details
For more information, phone Carole Bristow on 07 3379 1453 or send a text to 0409 495 017. Alternatively, phone Trevor Armstrong on 0414 691 264 or send an email.

Rikki Bailey Park is located at Avalon Street, Oxley, and is located within the upper Oxley Creek catchment. This group has been operating for more than 10 years with a small team of regular volunteers and people who drop in when they can. The group has contributed to an onsite bushwalk, nesting boxes, and habitat zones. It is working to restore eucalypt woodland by removing exotic weeds and regenerating native lomandras and grasses (e.g. kangaroo grass). Working bees are held on the fourth Sunday of each month from 8-10am.

Contact details
For more information, email Bronwyn Rigby at rikkibaileybushcare2010@gmail.com.

The reserve is located at Oxley and is a significant native bushland habitat. The main objectives of the bushcare group are the protection and rehabilitation of the bushland, education about the area's significant habitat value, and enhancement of the existing cleared area along Fort Road for use by residents.

The group meets the first Sunday on the month at 8am.

Contact details
For more information, contact John Lahey on 0408 554 082 or send an email

The group has become custodians of the 47-hectare Wolston Creek Bushland Reserve. Since 2003, they have planted, weeded, and conducted flora and fauna studies and since 2009 has progressed an on-going natural regeneration project near the mouth of Wolston Creek and the Brisbane River. Since 2013, with weed invasion continuing the impact the reserve and its high biodiversity values, the volunteers have regularly (and successfully) applied for grant funding to employ contractors to help with additional weeding. The site is home to wallabies, kangaroos, and raptors, as well as some flora species that are now rare in Brisbane. On top of this, it has fantastic views.

This group meets every fourth Sunday of the month from 7.30-10am and welcomes new volunteers.

Contact details
For more information or to join, email Lee-Anne Longton.

Working in parkland on the eastern side of Brandon Road, Runcorn, this group focuses on restoring wetlands that are part of the upper reaches of the Bulimba Creek catchment. Their work involves weed control, revegetation, and creekbank stabilisation. The project aims to improve water quality and increase native plant and animal diversity.

Contact details
For more information, phone Margaret Buchanan on 0412 239 568.

This group is working on a wetland site in the upper reaches of Bulimba Creek catchment, and currently concentrating on weed removal and replanting with indigenous species. The site has potential to provide good bird, butterfly and possibly fish habitat.

Contact details
For more information, phone Ray Ison on 0419 729 886. 

This group works along the upper reach of Rocky Waterholes Creek in Salisbury, from Evans Road to McCarthy Road. Members focus on rehabilitating and revegetating the banks of the creek and the riparian zone. The group holds working bees on the third Sunday of each month from 7.30-9.30am.

Contact details
For more information or to join, contact Kevin Eastment on 0407 114 390 or send an email.

Working in Gaddes Park, on the banks of Stable Swamp Creek, this group has a strong fauna focus, with a frog pond, butterfly host plants and native bees on site.

Contact details
For more information, phone Ian Lees on 0431 910 114.

This group's main focus is on eradicating weeds and stabilising the banks of Stable Swamp Creek. They have a keen interest in the fauna using the park, and in propagating local provenance plants.

Contact details
For more information, phone Mick Richardson on 0428 950 251.

Volunteers actively contribute to the restoration of bushland through their bushcare activities in Tarragindi Recreation Reserve.

Contact details
For more information, contact the Habitat Brisbane Officer South via 07 3403 8888 or email.

This group is working to strengthen, protect and restore a unique blend of flora and fauna in an urban bushland context. Focusing on natural regeneration, they are removing weeds in a staged approach, assisting the process where required by planting local provenance species. They also aim to build community awareness, engagement and respect for the bush while enhancing an important corridor linkage between Roly Chapman Reserve and Toohey Forest.

Contact details
For more information, email Roly Chapman Reserve Bushcare Group.

This group is passionate about establishing, maintaining, and rehabilitating natural vegetation along the Brisbane River, which is an important natural corridor and a natural asset central to local amenity. Their work improves wildlife habitat and amenity and controls bank erosion. The Yeronga/Fairfield riparian areas support a diversity of Brisbane wildlife, including wedge-tail eagles, buff-banded rails (rare in Brisbane), wrens, kingfishers, lizards, frogs, butterflies, and bandicoots. The riverside vegetation needs the group's active involvement to manage and improve it.

New members are welcome to help with weed management and new plantings. The working bee times are published on the Yeronga community web page.

Contact details
For confirmation of times, email Yeronga Bushcare Group.