Explore the lives of some of the Sunshine Coast Ecological Park’s avian inhabitants, following bird surveys by staff, consultants and volunteers across the site.
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A 17-hectare Cooloolabin property, once degraded by logging and farming, has been transformed into a thriving wildlife corridor thanks to landholder Julia and Sunshine Coast Council’s Landholder Environment Grants. Applications for 2025 grants open July 7, supporting rural landowners in restoring biodiversity and protecting the region’s natural environment.
Check out some of the species spotted as this hinterland project evolves!
This World Frog Day, find out what makes these critters so important and why we're looking for them at the Sunshine Coast Ecological Park project site.
Rupari Hill is now part of Sunshine Coast Council’s protected estate, after the 10.9 hectare site at Tower Lane was purchased for $860,000 through the Environment Levy.
Council has purchased two land parcels for conservation, linking a key biodiversity corridor in the hinterland and protecting habitat for koalas and other threatened species.
More than 60 students, staff and parents from Maleny C&K Kindergarten got their hands dirty planting native seedlings at the Sunshine Coast Ecological Park site, helping to expand areas of ecological restoration.
Revegetation, education, wildlife: see what your Environment Levy achieved in 2023-24.
It's time to have your say on draft plans for a coordinated approach to managing our coastal areas.
Join this free dog training session to keep our dogs and native wildlife safe.
Our region has 81 priority invasive plants and animals. This is how we can all help to manage them and protect our environment, economy and communities.
Have your say on the draft Shorebird Conservation Plan 2025-2030 before November 15, 2024.
The Fungi Research Project will help restore natural areas at the Sunshine Coast Ecological Park site.
Come along to Bat Night 2024 at the Maleny Showgrounds on Saturday, October 12, from 1pm-8pm.
A partnership project between Sunshine Coast Council and QUT has been awarded an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship grant to develop a proven framework for classifying and mapping invasive plant species using drone-collected imagery.
It's a wrap on the Sunshine Coast's first Marine BioBlitz. Here is how it went.
Council is continuing early stages on the Sunshine Coast Ecological Park project in Maleny.
Thanks to ratepayers who contribute to Sunshine Coast Council’s Environment Levy Partnership Funding Program, 22 dedicated community groups will receive a share of $635,500 annually for the next three years.
Join us at Fraser Park, Golden Beach, on September 21, and at Cotton Tree Park, Maroochydore, on September 22, to learn about the amazing journey migratory shorebirds take to return to their summer home and the threats to survival they face.
Mature forests, lush gullies, habitat for endangered wildlife are now protected in a key location where our community gathers to enjoy the natural environment.
150 hectares will be protected for ground parrots, koalas, glossy black cockatoos and other threatened species in a new link for our coastal wildlife corridor.
If you are a thalassophile – a lover of the ocean – then get ready to take part in the inaugural Sunshine Coast Marine Bioblitz from August 30–31.
From July 8, the Environment Levy funded Landholder Environment Grants will open once again for expressions of interest for the 2024 funding round.