Glenella Street Parkland is being rehabilitated by the Brisbane Rainforest Action & Information Network (BRAIN) in partnership with local residents and with the support of Council. Welcome to Glenella Street Park Bushcare
Glenella Street Park Bushcare is a Brisbane City Council Habitat Brisbane group established in 2010 to restore the habitat along Fish Creek from Glenella Street to Lochinvar Lan
e, The Gap. We meet on the third Saturday of each month at 4pm (3.30pm in Winter) to w**d and plant the site. We have a vision for Glenella Street Park to provide a riparian rainforest walk, right in the heart of The Gap where residents and visitors can glimpse the type of rainforest once fringing our local creeks. It was bought and subdivided into acreage by Dr Yates. The creek side area of about 40 metres wide by 400 metres long was reclaimed as riparian bushland by Brisbane City Council and gazetted as a park. Early in 2010 SOWN’s Robert Whyte and his team of volunteers at Walton Bridge Bushcare Group starting clearing w**ds along an old path from the Lochinvar Lane end. It took the best part of a year before they broke through to Glenella Street. They found lots of w**ds but also important rainforest trees, vines and shrubs. The Brisbane Rainforest Action and Information network (BRAIN) were asked to assess the area and assist with replanting. BRAIN organised botanical surveys and compiled a species list of all the plants in the site. BRAIN member, Dr Bill McDonald, Principal Botanist at Queensland Herbarium, assisted with the botanical survey. He said one of the major trees, a Rough-Leaved Elm Aphananthe philippinensis certainly predates white settlement, being around 200 years old in 2011. It’s a healthy specimen and may live another 200 years. At the first community planting on Saturday 26 March 2011, SOWN, BRAIN and the local community planted more than 1500 rainforest trees, shrubs and grasses. Several more plantings were underaken in 2011 and a similar number in 2012. In a planting at the Glenella Street end of the site in September 2013, more than 200 local bush food plants were planted by locals. Since then, we've done a major planting each Spring. BRAIN is also a Brisbane City Council Habitat Brisbane group and provides support (along with BCC) to maintain the site and with community planting days. In 2012, fauna surveys were undertaken to get an idea of the animals living in and along Fish Creek. As expected, a number of the more common species found in The Gap were present at the site including Brush-tailed Possum, Carpet Python, a very friendly Tawny Frogmouth and the usual array of backyard fig birds and lorikeets, garden skinks and also catfish, eels and turtles in the creek. Some of the more interesting and significant species uncovered during the surveys, using the area include:
• Red-necked Wallaby
• Rakali, the native water rat
• Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
• Stoney Creek Frog
• Tusked Frog
• Elf Skink
Recently, an Echidna was seen at Glenella.
