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Mt Gravatt Environment Group

Restoration and strengthening Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve and linking to Bulimba Creek Catchment habitats. Why a whole of community focus?

Our Vision:
Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve is the heart of a special community. Indigenous and European histories both have strong links with the mountain. Although it has been farmed, harvested for timber and increasingly isolated by suburban development over one hundred years, the mountain still supports the most amazing diversity of plant and animal life. This ecological and cultural landmark

exists just ten kilometres from the CBD of the fastest growing city in Australia. Restoring and strengthening the ecosystems of the mountain and its corridors, will have positive community and environmental outcomes, and is increasingly urgent as the population in the area grows. Mt Gravatt Environment Group is already working to actively engage the whole community in consolidating healthy habitat areas and reducing habitat isolation with wildlife links. Wildlife does not recognise human created property boundaries or roads. Effective habitat consolidation and linking requires co-operation of a diverse range of property owners - private, corporate, local/state/federal government, community groups, schools and university. Therefore, a key part of our strategy is to identify investments in the environment that also deliver excellent community and business outcomes.

05/02/2026

Mt Gravatt High School “Bird Bee Butterfly” garden: building community and habitat for wildlife.

By: Laurie Deacon Laurie and her multi-gen team "I'd like to just say a huge thank you for all your wonderful efforts and care for our natural environment. I can only imagine what a bare and dusty patch of earth that space would be without your love and care. It's wonderful how you also bring together a community (young and old) that strives toward a positive common goal and comes together, in action, to be part of something bigger than themselves....

By: Laurie Deacon Laurie and her multi-gen team “I’d like to just say a huge thank you for all your wonderful efforts and care for our natural environment. I can only imagine what a bar…

18/12/2025

A Eucalyptus propinqua sized thank you to our volunteer community for your amazing work over 2025! Have a fantastic break everyone and we will see you in the New Year.

09/11/2025

By: Michael Fox Griffith Mates joined us again this week to help restore the forest, Walking from Mt Gravatt Campus showed the students were interested in everything from the Rainbow Lorikeet disappearing into a tree hollow to the Native Raspberries just starting to flower alongside the track. Today the team worked in Zone 21 w**ding the site cleared and replanted for National Tree Day 2017....

02/08/2025

24/05/2025

By: Laurie Deacon Bushcare News from March and April 2025 . Local families and people from far and wide have come to help build a Wildlife Corridor through your school. This volunteer work has been going on, once a month, since Feb 2012, so that is 13 years ! Last year I was not available to lead the Bush Care due to caring for my Mother up north....

By: Laurie Deacon Bushcare News from March and April 2025 . Local families and people from far and wide have come to help build a Wildlife Corridor through your school. This volunteer work has bee…

14/05/2025

Leigh with Tree Popper By: Michael Fox Leigh, one of our Fox Gully Bushcare team, tried out one of our most valuable tools: Tree Popper. How to remove a troublesome w**d. Pull it out roots and all. Chinese Elm Celtis sinensis and Ochna Ochna serrulata are two Brisbane's troublesome environmental w**ds that have seeds that are spread by birds eating the fruit....

18/04/2025

Yang family our hard working new volunteers. By: Michael Fox One hundred and fifty trees, shrubs, vines and grasses planted to restore a special bird habitat. We were joined by the wonderful Yang family: Roger, Maggie, Zoe and Ziv whose hard work was key what we achieved for future of our forest birds. The family all enjoyed the morning especially learning about our local native plants....

26/03/2025

By: Michael Fox Coucal Corner is a special part of Mt Gravatt Conservation Reserve on the north face and beside the new walking connecting the Goodenia and Summit Tracks. (No yet marked on walking map.) Native grass habitat: w**ds removed. Named for the Pheasant Coucals Centropus phasianinus that lived in scrubby habitat cleared as the first stage in restoration. Our Fox Gully team is working with…...

15/01/2025

By: Michael Fox A nice cool morning in the forest and nine volunteers came together to attack the invasion of Cobbler's Pegs Bidens pilosa and Corky Passionvine Passiflora suberosa. W**d Buster Team in action Yam Hawkmoth Theretra nessus Eloise and Bettina have been coming every week volunteering as part of their work towards their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Awards....

By: Michael Fox A nice cool morning in the forest and nine volunteers came together to attack the invasion of Cobbler’s Pegs Bidens pilosa and Corky Passionvine Passiflora suberosa. W**d Bust…

20/12/2024

By: Michael Fox The odd looking Wattle Notodontid Moth Neola semiaurata is one of my favourates. Food plants include Fringed Wattle Acacia fimbriata Brisbane's new floral emblem. Caterpillars of the cute Orange Streaked Ringlet Hypocysta irius feed on local grasses like Blady Grass Imperata cylindrica. Poinciana Looper Moth Pericyma cruegeri Australasian Garden Orb-Weaver Hortophora sp....

By: Michael Fox The odd looking Wattle Notodontid Moth Neola semiaurata is one of my favourates. Food plants include Fringed Wattle Acacia fimbriata Brisbane’s new floral emblem. Caterpi…

06/12/2024

Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura By Michael Fox We are finding increasing evidence that our work in Fox Gully Bushcare is making a difference. I photographed this young Square-tailed Kite Lophoictinia isura at Bushcare on Tuesday. The Kite parents have been nesting in the same trees for a few years now and apex predictors like these will only breed if there is food available. So it is nice to receive acknowledgment from Lord Mayor Schrinner.

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