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Drinks at the River
What a lovely way to wrap up the UWG 2025 year with a get together at the river.
Beautify your Bush
Urban Wildlife Gardens recently partnered with Lake Macdonald Catchment Creekcare, through Noosa District Landcare, to deliver a workshop on ‘Beautify your Bush’.
Melaleucas in the Garden
Noosa is renowned for its woodlands of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Paper Barks / Tea Tree) along its rivers, lakes and in wetlands. Also the north queensland species Melaleuca leucadendra is common on our streetscapes, particularly in the fine leaf form that evokes weeping willows. But these trees can be too large for the suburban garden – what species of Melaleuca are better suited to gardens and can attract the same array of wildlife?
Noosa Biosphere Awards
The UWG subcommittee would like to congratulate our member Gene Young for being a finalist in the Environmental Steward Award (Under 30). This category, sponsored by UniSC, is for outstanding contribution to the Noosa Biosphere environment by an individual.
Member Contribution by Leonie Stephens
Living in Lake MacDonald, I wanted to have a balanced and harmonious garden, with local native plants that thrived in their natural environment while also providing food and shelter for native species. Some native plants also provide food I can eat.
Native Christmas Trees
Go native this festive season. Show your love for our native trees this Christmas! Potted native plants make fantastic Christmas trees and exude a unique Australian Christmas vibe that just can’t be achieved with a plastic tree, or an exotic farmed pine.
Plumed Whistling Duck
The Whistling Duck stands out amongst other ducks due to a few key ID features. It has an elegant appearance compromising of a slender neck, upright posture and long pink legs, boasting a light brown body with a fine black barring on the chest and long cream or golden plumes curving down the sides from the shoulders. With intelligent-looking yellow-orange eyes and grey bill with pinkish tones, these medium sized ducks (up to 60cm long) are impressive birdwatching specimens, although they can be elusive given their tendency to flee if feeling threatened.
Threatened Fauna in the Noosa Shire Workshop
Join Noosa Council Officers Dave O’Gorman and Rachel Lyons as they outline the Noosa Threatened Fauna Recovery Road Map, which was developed to facilitate and guide the on-going management and recovery of threatened fauna across the Noosa Shire and our adjacent coastal waters.
Wildflower Festival Walk
I always look forward each year to the Sunshine Coast Wildflower Festival. There are so many interesting walks, it’s hard to choose which to do.
This walk was organized by Noosa and District Landcare and took us through a section of Tewantin National Park.
Noosa National Park Headland Wildflower Walk
It was a beautiful Sunday morning, the last day of August 2025, and we were blessed by the wildflowers. A very passionate Sarah Lawson guided us from Park Edge Road entrance into the Noosa National Park Headland section walk.
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