Creating a web of green

B4C's field workers undertake important rehabilitation and ecosystem maintenance work around the catchment - restoring degraded waterways & bushland areas, ensuring that gains that have been made in the past are maintained, and assisting with the survival of critical corridor links and habitats.

When bushland is protected, or an area is rehabilitated, it can take 10 or more years for an ecosystem to maintain itself and suppress the re-emergence of weeds. While B4C undertakes paid contract work to restore bushland or waterways, in many cases funding for sites will only last 1-3 years, leaving a significant funding gap. The field staff and volunteers of Bulimba Creek Catchment play an increasingly important role in filling this gap, with B4C providing funds for supervision and materials.

Contract and Grant-based rehabilitation sites, 2011:

Tingalpa Wetlands
  Several sites, funded by Caring for our Country and Brisbane City Council

Oxbow wetlands
  Funded by stakeholders Powerlink and Transport and Main Roads. Additional funding by
  Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation, and WaterSecure
  Scientific Nekton research funded by Fisheries Queensland. Report available here.

Spring Creek
  Ongoing maintenance of Spring Creek off Scrub Road

Energex sub-station, Scrub Road
  Bushland in-fill planting and weed control in area adjacent to the substation. Funded by Energex.

FR Caterson Park, Mansfield
  Restoration of the riparian zone and planting of small area in parkland, along with control of rag
  weed, elephant grass and other significant weeds. Funded by Powerlink and Queensland Urban
  Utilities.

Maisie Dixon Park
  Weed removal and some revegetation. Separate sites in parkland funded by Queensland Urban
  Utilities and Department Transport and Main Roads.

Bulimba Creek Confluence, opposite Aviance Cl
  Weed control and revegetation. Separate works in this area of the parkland funded by Queensland
  Urban Utilities and Department Transport and Main Roads.

Holmead Park
  Major weed control and some revegetation, funded by Queensland Urban Utilities.

Parkland opposite Vanderbilt St, Eight Mile Plains
  Major weed control and edge-seal planting, funded by Department Transport and Main Roads.

Salvin Creek, off Pine Mountain Road
  Fauna crossing works, including installation of nesting boxes funded by the Queensland
  Government Landcare Grants Program
  Weed control and riparian zone revegetation funded by Coca-Cola through Landcare Australia

Clivedon Park, Cubberla-Witton Catchment
  Weed control and revegetation across several areas, funded by Queensland Urban Utilities

Southside Sustainability Centre
  Native grasslands and revegetation / corridor creation, funded by Toshiba through Landcare
  Australia.