![]() ![]() The project involves 14 project sites across HCH and partnering between FLFWTR and Toowoomba Regional Council, Gummingurru, Crows Nest Show Society, Dingo Mountain Park and numerous other landowners committed to restoring the habitat value of their properties. We are very excited to hold an event combining a tour of the site and planting with a workshop on GBCs and recordings sightings of them, co-hosted by the site custodians.” “The Gummingurru First Nation ceremonial site is a site of a casuarina grove planting. To increase its reach, the project also includes community engagement and education activities for residents and visitors from across the Toowoomba Region. Improving habitat is good not just the GBC, but for numerous other species, and ultimately, improves the overall health of the land to benefit to us all.” We will support them to improve habitat on their property. And it’s absolutely essential to have landowners on board. “We can’t simply rely on regrowth to support GBCs, we need to plant casuarinas to accelerate recovery of impacted groves and establish new groves on otherwise cleared land. The project is important because GBCs are listed as vulnerable and their habitat was badly impacted by the bushfire and drought” explained Peter Hayes, spokesperson for Friends of Land for Wildlife Toowoomba Region. So much so, the bird is featured on our local map. In the aftermath, the project will plant and maintain 700 Black and Forest Sheoak varieties of casuarinas, the preferred feed trees of GBC in HCH.Īnd the project is made possible through funding from WIRES Landcare Australia Wildlife Relief and Recovery Grants. ![]() Swathes of casuarinas burned out or died back. The ‘Casuarinas for Cockies’ project is in the High Country Hamlets area of Toowoomba Region, hard hit by the 2019/2020 bushfires and drought. ![]()
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