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The following article is compiled, with permission, from a brochure issued by the community group Citizens Against Mining Ben Lomond (CAMBL). CAMBL is focused on preventing the reopening of the Ben Lomond mine because of the safety and environmental threats … Continue reading
Two postgraduate students from James Cook University have each received a 2014 Wildlife Queensland award to support their research. Laura Brannelly, from the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, is exploring the immune response of endangered amphibian species to … Continue reading
An important invitation from NQCC On Wednesday 23rd July, 5 Australian senators will be in Townsville conducting hearings into the adequacy of the Australian and Queensland governments’ efforts to stop the rapid decline of the Great Barrier Reef. Some of … Continue reading
July field trip – Rowes Bay – This Sunday from 8.30am: Sunday’s excursion will look at the Rowes Bay wetlands boardwalk behind the Council’s Sustainability Centre, before moving on to follow the ethno-botanical trail up Jezzine’s Garabarra Hill. Meeting time and place: … Continue reading
After two consecutive weekends of cold, wet and windy weather how lucky were we to score a perfect north Queensland winter day for our Hinchinbrook cruise! Our group of ten assembled at Dungeness in time for a quick snack in … Continue reading
From time to time members send me photographs of their backyard wildlife and it seems a shame not to share them. So why not have a regular (or irregular) post on the blog to include some of these sightings? Here … Continue reading
It was a pretty last minute decision but for the first time in many years the Townsville Branch had a presence at the 2014 Ecofiesta in Queens’s Gardens. We decided it would be an excellent opportunity to present a display … Continue reading
Last month saw an excellent turn-out of walkers and beautiful weather for our long hike on the Town Common’s celebrated “Under the radar” trail – what more could we ask for? Several of us have been wanting to walk … Continue reading
The last time I visited Keelbottom Creek was sometime back in the 1980s – I’m not even sure if the bitumen extended that far back then, there was certainly no big bridge across the creek, just a causeway that one … Continue reading
Having postponed this trip from February, our excursion to Big Crystal Creek proved to be worth waiting for and despite concerns that the threat of rain might put people off, it was in fact the rain that stayed away and … Continue reading