Working together for a healthy,
connected catchment.
Common Myna Humane Reduction Workshops FREE. Refreshments served. Bookings required. Thursday 18th October, 6pm - B4C Sustainability Centre, Carindale. Tuesday 23rd October, 6pm - Indooroopilly Library. Concerned about the impact of this invasive species on our native birds? Learn how can you help control Common (Indian) Myna Bird impacts. This workshop, presented by B4C's Stefan Hattingh, will explain how to identify this bird (as well as the native Noisy Miner), their behaviour, how to report your sightings and how you can start trapping in your own backyard. After attending you can borrow a cage (you will need to sign the Animal Welfare Protocol before starting trapping).
Funded by a BCC Lord Mayor's Environment Grant.
Behind the scenes tour of the Compton Road fauna overpass
It was a great treat to get a behind-the-scenes tour and background briefing of the Compton Road fauna overpass with Professor Darryl Jones this month! This was one of the field trips associated with the National Landcare Conference. It's impressive to see how seamless the habitat is from the surrounds to throughout the overpass.
There are three rope ladders connecting the canopies and two underpasses. Big and small animals are using it regularly - many which have been captured on camera. Darryl says it's the most studied overpass in the world - and many Compton Road users don't even know it's there.
We also met with Transurban and CPB Contractors at the construction site at Illaweena Street and chatted to them about the Logan Enhancement Project and its environmental focus. Darryl provided a great presentation back at the Karawatha Forest Environment Centre and we also stopped to enjoy a morning tea.
This tour was also a wonderful opportunity to meet and talk with the amazing ladies from the Karawatha Forest Protection Society Inc who have been instrumental in pushing for these fauna-friendly solutions. They provided some excellent insights into the local environment and challenges faced.
We want to see many more fauna movement solutions in Brisbane. It's clear that they work and that engineers can work successfully with community groups. Darryl said "persistent and professional community groups" are most important way to effect this sort of change.
There is a Griffith University monitoring study of the overpass being done with Darryl and students Kat Aburrow and Ben Mackenzie. We thank them for providing us with the following photos of some of the creatures that are using it and getting from A to B safely! A swamp wallaby, koala and echidna!
RELATED EVENT Come and hear from Darryl again when he's guest speaker at our Sustainability Centre Open Day on Saturday 1st December. He'll be talking at 9.30am about the latest in road ecology innovation overseas.