It takes many hundreds of volunteer hours and hands to help restore and protect natural bushland in Noosa for us all to enjoy.
But Noosa & District Landcare’s patience has paid off, with the group securing a custom-built trailer with funds received from Energex under the Sustainability and Environment Fund.
The trailer will be used to move equipment to Noosa Bushland Care sites and comes complete with tools needed for volunteer groups to continue their valuable rehabilitation work in the local environment.
A key location to benefit from the trailer will be Spoonbill Street in Peregian Beach. The Spoonbill Bushcare group was established by Landcare in 2009, after the Spoonbillians positively responded to an act of environmental vandalism in their street in 2008.
The cloud that threatened their local environment was suddenly tinged with a silver lining as the vandalised site was restored to a more natural state over the ensuing years. The trailer will be used at Spoonbill Street for the first time this Saturday at their first Bushcare working bee for 2014.
Wendy May, Noosa & District Landcare’s Bushland Care Program Coordinator, said: “We are very pleased to receive a brand new custom-built trailer for the Noosa Bushland Care Program and Spoonbill St volunteers.
“Energex kindly donated funds for us to put towards building this one-stop shop for the Bushland Carers to go about maintaining the biodiversity and amenity values of Noosa’s bushland parks and reserves.
“We would like to thank Terry Nodwell from Energex for helping us through the process and Spoonbill’s very own Lyn Bollen for obtaining the grant.”
The Noosa Bushland Care Program is supported by Noosa Council and Noosa & District Landcare.
“The program is about bringing people together to protect, enhance and manage natural areas in an ecologically sustainable way. Through this program people make friends, network, share knowledge and interests in their local environment,” Wendy said.
She thanked the volunteers for their time, energy and passion, saying “the conservation hours contributed by these people is remarkable.”
