Springbrook Weedbusters

03/09/2026

🏆 Announcing our Outstanding Friend Award recipient for 2026: Emma Hawthorne 🎉

At our Annual General Meeting last Saturday, we were proud to present Emma Hawthorne from Springbrook W**dbusters with our Outstanding Friend Award. This award is given to only one person per year from the Friends network, to recognise outstanding leadership and dedication.

Emma stepped up as W**d Busters coordinator while completing a Masters of Conservation, keen to put her new skills into action and collaborate with the group's most experienced members.

Since then she's helped lead habitat restoration events across Springbrook National Park, and says her favourite moment is watching a tree she planted grow taller than her, then spotting a bird land on it as a perch. 🦅

Her advice for anyone thinking about volunteering: "Give it a go! Even if you have zero experience, we always need hands that are willing to learn and take action."

When she's not out weeding, Emma does science communication for BirdLife Australia and swears by a dirty chai on volunteer mornings.

Congratulations Emma, and thank you for everything you do for Springbrook National Park and our community.

Join us in wishing Emma a big CONGRATULATIONS in the comments below 👇

16/08/2026

What a beautiful morning we had with our Springbrook W**d Busters: School Edition. Yes we removed bags and bags of weeds but we also got to chat and connect in the morning winter sun. ☀️

As part of our Monitoring & Maintenance initiative (also known as the M&M crew), we joined with staff, parents, and local community members of Springbrook State School in de-weeding their native plant garden. We will be engaging and educating the students about weeds later in the year to get the young ones hooked on caring for nature too!

If you missed this one, join our newsletter to find out all the details of our upcoming events by emailing [email protected]

12/08/2026

Wanting some wild time in nature? Then come hang out with the Springbrook W**d Busters this weekend!

🌳Bilborough Court Bush Regeneration Meet Up with talk from Australian Rainforest Conservation Society (ARCS)

📆 Sun Aug 16th
9-11am
Reconnecting regrowth to remnant Springbrook National Park site at the top of Bilborough Court. Also featuring special guests AJ Brown and Dr Clyde Wild from Australian Rainforest Conservation Society (ARCS) talking to us about their exciting new project 'From Grass to Gondwana Competition' that Springbrook W**d Busters will be supporting later this year. This is a great opportunity to learn about some of the history of Springbrook, its ecosystems and restoration efforts.

🚙 8:55am - Meet at the cul-de-sac of Bilborough Ct

Then the team will walk in by foot to the regen site

What to bring:

👩🏽‍🌾 Gloves
💦 Water bottle
🧢 Hat
🦺 Long sleeve shirts and pants
🥾Closed in toe shoes

See you in the green behind the gold!

For all enquiries, please reach out to [email protected]

04/08/2026

Calling all bush regenerators! Springbrook World Heritage Rainforest Restoration are looking for teams to compete in their rainforest restoration competition in Springbrook National Park. If you are interested, check out the details below.

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14/07/2026

👀 Can you spot our volunteers? Whilst it might look like our volunteers are lost in the towering weeds, what is really happening is some clever weeding. Thanks to those who attended our bush regeneration event at Bilborough Ct last month. It was a great turn out with much To***co and seeds removed, making way for the natural regeneration already occurring on site. Yet as always, there is more to do so we are staying up the mountain this month as well to do a follow up. Keen to get in the green? Check out how you can get involved below:
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Bilborough Court Bush Regeneration Meet Up with talk from Australian Rainforest Conservation Society (ARCS)

Sun July 19th

9-11am

W**d Buster and environmental educator, Ben Kober will be leading this session to continue these amazing efforts. We will also have special guests AJ Brown and Dr Clyde Wild from Australian Rainforest Conservation Society (ARCs) talking to us about their exciting new project 'From Grass to Gondwana Competition' that Sprringbrook W**d Busters will be supporting later this year. This is a great opportunity to learn about some of the history of Springbrook, its ecosystems and restoration efforts.

Please take note of the new meeting spot for this meet up at the cul-de-sac of Bilborough Ct

See you there!

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18/06/2026

Hello Springbrook W**d Busters!

We have our monthly bush regeneration meetup this Sunday 21st June and we are at a NEW LOCATION! We are moving up the mountain to higher altitudes for the next few months, so please take note of our new site.

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Bilborough Court Bush Regeneration Meet Up
Sun June 21st
9-11am

We are moving up the mountain to Bilborough Ct to help connect some regrowth to remnant. This is a site that one of our individual members, Ceris Ash has been working on for many years. You will be able to see her inspiring work and what can be achieved by a few hands! If you haven’t yet met Ceris, you are in for a treat! Ceris is an eco-warrior of the mountain with extensive ecological knowledge of Springbrook and a dedicated advocate for protecting nature.

Please take note of the new meeting spot for this meet up
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🚙 8:55am - Meet at the cul-de-sac of Bilborough Ct - see map location https://maps.app.goo.gl/47sF6JJofUSWu2SdA?g_st=ic
Then the team will walk in by foot to the regen site

🌿 9am-11am - Bush regen at the Bilborough Court site to tackle predominantly To***cos to assist the naturally occurring regen at the site.

What to bring:
👩🏽‍🌾 Gloves
💦 Water bottle
🧢 Hat
🦺 Long sleeve shirts and pants
🥾Closed in toe shoes

If you have any queries on the day or if there is wet weather and you want to check whether the event is still going ahead, please email [email protected]

Cheers!

Cheers!

08/06/2026

⭐️ NEW OPPORTUNITY ALERT ⭐️

Ⓜ️+Ⓜ️ Introducing the new Monitoring & Maintenance Crew (or the M&M Crew as we like to call it). This is an extra monthly morning weekday meetup devoted to the monitoring and maintenance of both plants and birds. It's only a 90 min session and has a light physical component.

🌱 Monitoring and maintaining regen and restoration sites is essential for ensuring the work is successful and continues to improve. By monitoring the trees we have planted and the weeds around them not only are we better equipped to know what actions to take next but we can also monitor the success of the site. Secondly, birds can be great indicators of ecosystem health. By monitoring the birds around our site as well as other regrowth and remnant sites, we will be able to get an indication of the success of our restoration as a healthy ecosystem over time.

Our first M&M meetup is this Wed 10th June. Here are all the details!
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🚙 7am - Meet at the Settlement Day Use Area - Induction into the M&M Crew.

🐦‍⬛ For this event we will be doing 2 x 20 min bird surveys (one across the road near the campground, the second at Carrick Creek restoration site).

🌱 Following this, we will be counting the trees planted at our site (from March and Dec 2025) to monitor their success.

👩🏽‍🌾 Whilst we may do a little bit of light weeding at our site, we will only be hand-weeding, so the only tools required for this session are gloves. All experience levels are welcome. If you have any binoculars, please bring those as well (although they are not compulsory).

For any queries, please reach out to [email protected]

04/06/2026

Thanks for all those who attended the Australia Bird Monitoring Workshop with Springbrook W**d Busters. What a wonderful afternoon it was! Even with the wet-weather it was amazing to see everyone’s commitment.

In this workshop, participants learnt about:

🦜 Birdata: BirdLife Australia's nation-wide bird monitoring platform

📋 How to conduct standardised bird surveys

🌳 Key Biodiversity Areas within Springbrook National Park

👩🏽‍🌾 How to monitor bird species compositions over time alongside the Springbrook W**d Busters restoration site

🐦 Bird identification tips from local bird specialist, Melissa Whitby

After some afternoon tea, everyone braved the rain and actively surveyed some sites in the National Park including the W**d Buster restoration site. We saw lots of birds including a cute pair of Tawnys nestling together.

Citizen science is essential for conservation as there just isn't enough funding or experts to monitor the diverse range of fauna, flora and ecosystems across Australia. If you are keen to contribute to conservation locally in Springbrook, join the W**d Busters mailing list to hear about upcoming events and opportunities.
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📧 [email protected]

25/05/2026

🌱 A small but mighty crew! Never underestimate the power of just a few motivated people. These guys tackled invasive weeds - making a big dent in our Carricks Creek Restoration site. This work will help free up some of the natural regeneration occuring at the site and pave the way for our spring planting where we can continue our restoration efforts of this threatened ecosystem riddled with weeds.

💦 And it happened to be the only time the rain stopped - it was meant to be!!

What weeds are you dealing with in your area?

19/05/2026

Want to learn birding with a purpose? 🐦‍⬛Then don't miss out on this free conservation event in 'Bird monitoring for conservation alongside land care projects' this Sun May 24th. Tickets are free but must be booked. We still have a few tickets left but as we will be doing some bird walking in the National Park after the presentation, numbers are capped.

🐦 BirdLife Australia Workshop: Bird Monitoring for Conservation
Sun May 24th
2-4:30pm
Springbrook Community Hall
Bird monitoring

Learn about:
🪶 Birdata, BirdLife Australia's nation-wide bird monitoring platform
📲 How to conduct bird surveys to contribute to conservation
🍃 Key Biodiversity Areas and how you can support them
🌳 Monitoring of the Springbrook W**d Busters restoration site
🦜 Bird identification tips from local bird specialist, Melissa Whitby

🍰 Afternoon tea will be provided.

BOOK HERE
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Join Springbrook W**d Busters, BirdLife Australia and local bird specialist Melissa Whitby for a workshop in bird monitoring, bird ID and survey tips.