The Moreton Bay Foundation

01/09/2026

🦪 Altered Tides: Gold Coast is Your Oyster

If you love our waterways, ocean and bay, here’s an event worth putting in the diary.

On Saturday 12 September, Altered Tides brings together culture, creativity, science and restoration for a special evening alongside this year’s SWELL Sculpture Festival at Currumbin.

The evening begins with an immersive walk among the sculptures with Traditional Custodian Uncle Glenn Barry and SWELL artists, before moving to the Smalls Gallery at VIKA for conversations exploring our connection with waterways — and the remarkable role oysters can play in restoring them.

Hear stories and ideas from artists, scientists, Traditional Custodians and people working hands-on in oyster restoration, including:

🦪 Sally Gregory — Hooked on Tallebudgera Creek
🎨 Despina Linaraki — SWELL artist and architect behind Oystertecture
🌊 Uncle Glenn Barry — Traditional Custodian and artist
🦪 Robbie Porter & Erica Leal — OzFish and oyster restoration
🎨 Kayla Finlayson — SWELL artist
🔬 Dr Marina Richardson — mapping endangered oyster reefs

It’s a great opportunity to discover more about oyster reefs, restoration and the connections between healthy waterways, culture, community and creativity.

📅 Saturday 12 September
⏰ 4.00–7.00pm
📍 SWELL Smalls Gallery, VIKA Currumbin
🎟 $10 adult | $5 concession

Places are limited, so registration is recommended.

👉 Register via the link below



Hosted by Gecko Environment Council and Griffith University Climate Action Beacon.

An event for everyone in a love-affair with our waterways, ocean & bay, featuring local storytellers & a short guided walk among SWELL sculptures.

27/08/2026

Check out the great work of Resilient Rivers SEQ on Landline. Improving the health of south east Queensland’s rivers has a flow-on effect downstream in Moreton Bay.

S2026 Sunday 23/8/2026 in iview (Segment starts at 22 minute mark)

https://iview.abc.net.au/show/landline/series/2026/video/RF2504Q028S00

Hosted by award-winning journalist Pip Courtney, Landline is Australia's only national agricultural television program covering stories from Australia's rural and regional heartland.

21/08/2026

Isn’t it fascinating how a Pied Oystercatcher’s snack can reveal a complex hidden ecosystem?

Moreton Bay’s mudflats are alive with the worms and other critters that shorebirds depend on. But increased levels of fine sediment from the Bay’s catchments can smother these benthic communities and disrupt the food web.

By supporting tree-planting, catchment care and restoration projects, we can help keep soil and fine sediment where it belongs – on land and out of rivers and streams — which in turn protects the Bay’s habitats.

Healthy catchments mean thriving mudflats — and well-fed shorebirds that are an integral part of the Bay we all love.

Want to know more? Follow the link in the comments to our Shorebirds Sediment Impact report.

25/07/2026

🌿 Where people meet mangroves

Today (July 26) is World Mangrove Day—a chance to recognise the remarkable coastal forests that shelter marine life, stabilise shorelines and connect the land with the waters of Moreton Bay.

At Nudgee Beach, those connections are easy to see. Despite the airport, motorway and city pressing close, the rhythm of the shoreline is still set by the tides.

It is a place to slow down, watch birds feeding across the tidal flats, look for life among the mangrove roots—and perhaps enjoy some fish and chips while watching the littoral world go by.

Nudgee Beach: Where People Meet Mangroves
https://moretonbayfoundation.org/nudgee-beach-where-people-meet-mangroves/

26/06/2026

Love Moreton Bay? Help protect it.

There’s still time—this EOFY, your tax-deductible donation helps turn science into action for cleaner water, healthier seagrass, stronger ecosystems and a better future for the Bay.

Donate before 30 June.

15/06/2026

Protecting Moreton Bay starts with informed decision-making.

TMBF has lodged a submission on the proposed Moreton Motorsport Park development at Beachmere, north of Brisbane.

The proposed site is connected to King Johns Creek and therefore the Caboolture River, downstream coastal wetlands and the Moreton Bay Marine Park – including the Marine National Park (Green Zone) in adjacent Deception Bay.

Our submission is focussed on whether the proposal has adequately assessed and managed potential impacts on Moreton Bay's waterways, wetlands, wildlife and water quality.

Drawing on the science and expert knowledge contained within the Blueprint for a Sustainable Moreton Bay and the Sediment Impacts knowledge synthesis, our submission identifies a number of areas where we believe stronger environmental safeguards are needed. Our concerns centre on:

> Stormwater, Sediment and Contaminants
> Flood-Event Mobilisation of Pollutants
> Marine Plants and Cumulative Habitat Loss
> Wetland Hydrology and Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems
> Acid Sulfate Soils and Water Quality
> Artificial Light Impacts on Wildlife
> Noise, Vibration and Wildlife Disturbance
> Cumulative Impacts on Moreton Bay Values
> Monitoring, Transparency and Adaptive Management

As such, we believe any decision should be informed by a thorough understanding of the potential environmental risks and how they will be managed.

We encourage community members to read our submission and make their own informed submission to the Queensland Government before consultation closes on 25 June 2026.

LINKS to our submission and the Qld Govt Submissions Portal are in the comments.

09/06/2026

Tiny fish, big story.

White’s Seahorses are one of those wonderful little creatures most people never see — quietly clinging to seagrass, sponge, soft coral or other structures beneath the surface.

But they may have an important story to tell about the health of Moreton Bay.

Our latest article looks at new research led by UQ PhD candidate Rowan Carew, which is helping build a clearer picture of White’s Seahorses in South East Queensland: where they are, what habitats they use, and what we need to know to protect them.

In New South Wales, White’s Seahorse conservation has already moved into recovery mode, including the use of “seahorse hotels” in places where populations have declined.

Here in Queensland, we are still at an earlier stage. We know they are here — including in Moreton Bay — but we still need to better understand what we have.

That is why this research matters.

And if you spot a seahorse in South East Queensland, you may be able to help by submitting your sighting through UQ’s White’s Seahorse Queensland Conservation Project.



Follow the link to find out more:
https://moretonbayfoundation.org/the-tiny-fish-with-a-big-story/

Photo © Ian Banks / CCNC Licence via iNaturalist