Creating a web of green

B4C is a non-profit group working to protect and bring back our natural environment. We are run by volunteers, but have to provide wages to our 5 paid employees.

We are also a volunteering organisation and have a house and yard, which is loaned to us by Boral Quarries.

We engage in community education, school projects, bushcare group support and getting the community planting trees, weeding and working on waterways and bushlands.

Volunteers working with us are helping Nature in our City. In our nursery we are growing locally collected seed into plants for revegetating waterways and bushlands degraded by years of lack of care and weeds.

In the field you could be working on a waterway, wetland, bushlands that have many species of local wildlife benefiting from your work, including locally, Swamp Wallabies, koalas, echidnas, possums, birds and amphibians (frogs).

We have big days like Riverclean and Clean up Australia Day and World Wetlands Day. They are to encourage people to also help nature and possibly become volunteers as well.

We take catchment tours of our Catchment and visit many different sites. Schools and many other people enjoy these tours.

Our philosophy is basically to stop despairing about our long suffering environment and get out and do something on the ground to help it recover. We believe that the antidote for despair is action!

By helping us in any way you are helping yourself to live in a city that has the highest number of wildlife species in Australia. We are not alone and we don’t want to be. We like to share this place with our fellow creatures.

We also want healthy waterways, bushlands and a Moreton Bay that benefits from the work we do on Bulimba Creek.

This is a natural world and we, as city dwellers are being disconnected from the things that are basic to our survival and happiness – our natural world. You cannot replace being there with watching the Discovery Channel.

So welcome to our small part of supporting nature. Your help, large or small, is appreciated, needed and respected. It will be part of what we hand on to our next generation.

Welcome to the only game in town!

Wayne Cameron
Catchment Manager of B4C