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City of Hobart Bushcare Volunteers caring for nature - no experience or bookings required. Morning and afternoon tea is provided and gloves and tools are supplied.

The City of Hobart Bushcare program provides an opportunity for the community to volunteer with the Council to help enhance wildlife habitat, protect threatened flora, build and maintain tracks, and help make Hobart's bushland areas a better place. Fourteen Bushcare groups volunteer in bushlands including:

Friends of Wellington Park
Cornelian Bay Bushcare,
Crag Care
Friends of Knocklofty Bushcare,
Valley Street Bushcare,
South Hobart Bushcare,
Waterworks Valley Bushcare,
Fern Tree Bushcare,
Ridgeway Bushcare,
Mount Nelson Bushcare,
Lambert Gully Bushcare,
Friends of McAulay,
Trackcare
Hobart Rivulet Bushcare

To find your nearest Bushcare group visit https://hobartcc.maps.arcgis.com/home/
Bushcare working bees take place weekdays and weekends - February to November. Children and families are welcome. It's a great way to meet people and learn new skills. For more information on becoming a volunteer visit www.hobartcity.com.au/Bushcare

Native birds and wildflowers! All welcome to our annual bird and wildflower walk on Sunday 1 Nov, 10am at gates to Water...
26/10/2026

Native birds and wildflowers! All welcome to our annual bird and wildflower walk on Sunday 1 Nov, 10am at gates to Waterworks Reserve.
Led by the knowledgeable Don Knowler and other local bird experts, and the slightly less knowledgeable Bec Johnson ;-)
Be ready for a gentle 2km walk around the lower Reservoir. BYO binoculars.
Option to join a 'breakaway' w**ding group who will be looking after a planting site. Tools provided.
Please wear long trousers, long sleeves, hat.

📣Urgent Working Bee - hand-w**ding Buchan w**d (Hirschfeldia incana) on the northern grasslands of the Queens Domain.📆Da...
26/10/2026

📣Urgent Working Bee - hand-w**ding Buchan w**d (Hirschfeldia incana) on the northern grasslands of the Queens Domain.

📆Date: Tuesday 27th October (TOMORROW)
🕙Time: 10am – 12.30pm (add 10 minutes to walk to the meeting place)
📍Meet: Park near the crossroads Upper Domain Rd & Clearys Gates Rd. Walk for 1km along Max’s Infinity Loop
👉Note: From the meeting place there is an additional 5 minute, downhill, uneven walk to the worksite. The w**ding work is easy and weather conditions will be cool.
🌐Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1vfx-SpGyG64HQImAX16Mcmi2mjuIYZg&usp=sharing

Contact: Sonya 0458 345 127 if you have any questions😃

We had to cancel Bushcare yesterday because of rain. Buchan w**d has been a target for the Cornelian Bay/Queens Domain Bushcare since 2024. There are two main outbreaks to get on top of and the best method is hand-w**ding. Please help, we’re nearly there!

☔️💧BUSHCARE CANCELLED due to rain.💧☔️Please look out for rescheduled activities.All welcome to join in with Bushcare thi...
22/10/2026

☔️💧BUSHCARE CANCELLED due to rain.💧☔️
Please look out for rescheduled activities.

All welcome to join in with Bushcare this Sunday 25 October.

🌳Cornelian Bay/Queens Domain Bushcare
👉Activity: Hand pulling Buchan W**d (Hirschfeldia incana).
🕙Time: 10am sharp at the meeting place to walk to site.
📍Where: Meet at the turning circle on the Max's Infinity Loop joggers track - approx. 1 km along the track (where we planted inside the exclusion fences).

🌳Lambert Gully Bushcare
👉Activity: Tackling hawthorn, cotoneaster and general w**d control.
🕙Time: 2-4.30pm
📍Where: meet near 194A Churchill Ave (upper side), Sandy Bay at 2pm.

Tea, biscuits and chats afterwards.

To all of our amazing Bushcare volunteers and their families, we warmly invite you to celebrate a fantastic year of Bush...
20/10/2026

To all of our amazing Bushcare volunteers and their families, we warmly invite you to celebrate a fantastic year of Bushcare work across our reserves.

📅 When: Thursday 19 November 2026
🕑Time: 5.30-7.30 pm
📍Where: The Legacy Park Community Hub, near the wood fired pizza ovens, Queens Domain.
🏆We will announce the Golden Secateurs Award winner and celebrate all your hard work.
🍕Delicious food provided

Please RSVP using this booking link.
https://events.humanitix.com/bushcare-bbq-2026

📩Any questions can be emailed to the Bushcare team: [email protected]

The Friends of Knocklofty have been helping out at Kriwalayti/Mt Nelson where Bushcare are trying to get forget-me-not o...
19/10/2026

The Friends of Knocklofty have been helping out at Kriwalayti/Mt Nelson where Bushcare are trying to get forget-me-not out of the bush. There's still a lot to do.
Forget-me-not has super spreading capabilities and the power to overwhelm the understory in native bushland. In recent years it has become highly invasive.
If you have forget-me-not in your garden it will be appreciated if you pull it out and dispose of it in your greenwaste bin

This Sunday October 18, all welcome to volunteer at South Hobart and Lenah Valley working bees. 🌳South Hobart Bushcare -...
15/10/2026

This Sunday October 18, all welcome to volunteer at South Hobart and Lenah Valley working bees.

🌳South Hobart Bushcare - Wellesley Reserve bush w**ding and roving. Check on the orchids.
🕑10am-12.30pm
📍Meet: Soccer car park, end of Wellesley St.

🌳Lenah Valley Bushcare - Seeking caper spurge and hybrid pittosporums in native forest above the New Town Rivulet ford.
🕑2-4.30pm
📍Meet: Car park at top of Lenah Valley Rd, New Town Rivulet.

Note - the advertised special event for Friends of Knocklofty Bushcare on Oct 18 won't be going ahead. Their normal Thursday working bees are still on.

NOTICE: Apologies, the programmed Native Plant Giveaway 18 Oct at Knocklofty Reserve will NOT be going ahead.Instead, pl...
13/10/2026

NOTICE: Apologies, the programmed Native Plant Giveaway 18 Oct at Knocklofty Reserve will NOT be going ahead.
Instead, play a part in protecting the beautiful nature of Kriwalayti/ Mt Nelson
- Date: Thursday 15 October
- Meet: 147 Nelson Rd Mt Nelson
- Job: hand-w**ding and bagging forget-me-not
- Time: 9am - 11.30am
- Tools supplied, Morning tea to finish off, Good vibes!

Mt Nelson Bushcare smashed more forget-me-not on Sunday! 30 bags taken to green-waste approximating 1/4 tonne of these d...
12/10/2026

Mt Nelson Bushcare smashed more forget-me-not on Sunday! 30 bags taken to green-waste approximating 1/4 tonne of these dreadful, understory-transforming, nasty w**ds. Go you good people!

All welcome to join Bushcare this Sunday 11 October.🌳Fern Tree Bushcare - Searching for invasive plants. 🕙Time: 10-am – ...
07/10/2026

All welcome to join Bushcare this Sunday 11 October.
🌳Fern Tree Bushcare - Searching for invasive plants.
🕙Time: 10-am – 12.30pm
📍Meet: 46 Grays Rd, Fern Tree

🌳Mt Nelson Bushcare - carry on with forget-me-not.
🕙Time: 10-am – 12.30pm
📍Meet: Below 2 Rialannah Rd, Mt Nelson

🌳Hobart Rivulet Bushcare - Small planting where gorse was removed.
🕙Time: 2pm - 4.30pm
📍Meet: Near the C3 church car park, South Hobart

🌳Friends of McAulay Bushcare - General w**ding across the reserve
🕙Time: 2pm - 4.30pm
📍Meet: Near 268 Churchill Ave, Sandy Bay
As always, there will be tea, coffee, biscuits and chats after each activity.
⛏All tools supplied.

Thank you to the Friends of Knocklofty who came to help in the attack against forget-me-not on Kriwalayti, otherwise kno...
01/10/2026

Thank you to the Friends of Knocklofty who came to help in the attack against forget-me-not on Kriwalayti, otherwise known as Mt Nelson. There is more, much more to do, but the bush is responding well to the w**d removal done to date. This is very important work. Thank you FoKL folk!

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