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Gladstone's quarry operators take on best practice

Gladstone's quarry operators take on best practice
Gladstone Regional Council operates and delivers gravel materials to service its regional road network from approximately 70 quarries across the council area. With this number of quarries comes a responsibility to operate them according to best practice standards and to meet regulator conditions. Earlier this year, Council commenced a review of the environmental management of... Read More »
An urban detention basin brought back to life as a butterfly park
Detention basins that have received the most publicity in the Toowoomba Regional Council (TRC) area are the relatively new basins constructed in Garnet-Lehmann and Ballin Drive Parks. There are however, a number of other smaller basins that were constructed some time ago along creeks in the Toowoomba town area. One of these is a small... Read More »
Native animals successfully relocated at crows nest
Several native animals, including frogs, lizards, sugar gliders and Brush-tailed possums, were successfully relocated to nearby suitable habitats by Redleaf’s Fauna Spotter Catcher last March. The realignment and upgrading of Middle Road near Crows Nest, north of Toowoomba by FKG Group necessitated the clearing of several large hollow bearing trees. FKG and National Vegetation Management... Read More »
Urban stream restoration + ecological design
The official opening for the Garnet Lehmann Park detention basin project was held on Saturday, 11 April 2015. Redleaf scientists were on hand doing educational tours of the new park area to highlight environmental aspects of the project. Mayor Paul Antonio said the detention basin was part of council's obligation to build a far more... Read More »
Gondwanaland rainforest school excursion at queen mary falls
At the beginning of November, the Year 5, 6 and 7 students at Killarney State School were engaged in a fun day of learning about the diversity and interrelationships between the native plants and animals found in their backyard at the beautiful location of Queen Mary Falls. The Condamine Alliance has a proud history of... Read More »
Aquarium passage flying fox camp unfazed by pipeline construction
Flying foxes hanged happily at their Hemmant camp near Bulimba Creek while the Caltex Lateral Pipeline was being constructed last September. To meet the requirements of the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) Dr Sandrine Martinez, Senior Ecologist from Redleaf Environmental, worked with APA Group to monitor a colony of the threatened Grey-headed flying... Read More »
Nesting boxes to attract wildlife to parks
Rosellas, cockatoos, king parrots, lorikeets and other wildlife are set to benefit from the installation of more than 40 nest boxes in Garnet Lehmann and Ballin Drive Parks. As part of ongoing works along East Creek, Toowoomba Regional Council arranged for a variety of nest boxes to be installed to attract native birds and animals... Read More »
Let nature take its course! Nesting birds protected from clearing
Several trees selected for removal for the Ballin Drive Park detention basin will remain in place while nature takes its course. Mayor Cr Paul Antonio said wildlife monitoring by Redleaf Environmental had identified several trees with nests during the recent tree removal at the park. "Council will wait to let nature take its course and... Read More »
Protesters and workers join forces to save bird
Garnet Lehmann Park detention basin project workers and protesters joined forces to save a baby Tawny Frogmouth. East Creek Park Defenders member Barb Marshall said the bird was found by a lady walking her dog late on Sunday. "I didn't have a good sleep that night and I came down early on Monday morning to... Read More »

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