November Meeting Details - 7pm Friday, 5th November

Jacinta Cox

Time: 7.00 pm 

Location: St. Anthony’s Community Centre, Memory Street, Toowoomba 

Guest Speaker: Jacinta Cox of Southern Queensland Landscape

Jacinta is leading a project working with land managers and the wider community in the Condamine Headwaters area to protect and enhance remaining habitat for the elusive River Blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus). 

The project encourages landholders to undertake actions on their properties that will reduce sedimentation and increase thermal habitat in streams where blackfish still persist. Current expert opinion finds that river blackfish are experiencing severe decline across the entire Murray-Darling Basin and are highly vulnerable to localised extinctions. The Condamine Headwaters is considered the last remaining stronghold of blackfish in Queensland.

Jacinta has completed a master’s degree in Landscape Architecture with the view to restoring and protecting freshwater-scapes within an urban context that is beautiful, functional and will buffer the effects of climate change. 

Followed by supper.

Current COVID-19 regulations apply