Bushfire Management

Bushfire Management Plans can be a vital tool to manage the risks to your assets and peoples' safety. They can be straight forward to develop - if you know what you are doing. Government Policy The Queensland State Government has developed a State-wide mapping methodology to identify Bushfire Prone Areas in support of the bushfire hazard... Read More »

Many regional roads have timber bridge structures across local rivers and creeks. These structures have been there for a very long time (often built in the early 1900's) and are starting to show their age. They are rapidly being replaced across Queensland and New South Wales with single span concrete bridges and culverts. Local governments... Read More »

Redleaf Environmental recently conducted an assessment of clearing impacts for the construction of a power line to a communications tower. One of the key objectives of the ecological surveys was to confirm Black-breasted Button-quails (Turnix melanogaster) occurred in the area. The species is listed at the state and national level as ‘vulnerable’ to extinction and... Read More »

In a recent fauna survey of vine thicket near Nanango, an unexpected thing happened. A Grey Goshawk (Accipiter novaehollandiae) landed right in front of one of the remotely deployed cameras with something in its talons. After several images were viewed by us we suddenly realised it had a common ringtail possum in its talons. For... Read More »

It's been done before by keen photographers around the World, but not many people in Australia have taken up the challenge! What, you may ask? To build a high quality camera trap based on a top-of-the line digital SLR camera with a number of remote flashguns to provide modelled lighting and high resolution images. Initially,... Read More »

Redleaf Environmental provided ecological services, surveying the proposed disturbance footprint for threatened plant species before construction. A number of threatened plant species are known to occur in the general area, including Austral Cornflower (Rhaponticum australe, photo) and several grasses. They can be hard to detect in the long grass adjacent to existing roadways where they often... Read More »

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 »

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 »

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 »