August Activity Details: Friday, 2 August 2024 and Sunday, 04th August, bus trip to Nudgee Beach and Boondall wetlands

CLUB MEETING: Friday, 02^nd  August, 7 pm - St. Anthony’s Community Centre, Memory Street, Toowoomba.

Threatened Flora and Vegetation Communities of the Darling Downs with Will Gibson

Will Gibson

Will is a locally based ecologist and environmental planner with a range of experience working for Councils and private environmental consultancies across Southern Queensland. Will leads a team of ecologists based in Toowoomba at Range Environmental Consultants and is passionate about balancing the needs of the environment we live in, conservation and the pressures of modern society. 

Since moving to Toowoomba in early 2021 Will has become a passionate advocate for the conservation, protection and management of the region's threatened plant and vegetation communities. Will's talk will provide an overview of the variety of flora species which have faced threatening processes across the region and how ecologists like himself manage these pressures and work to ensure their conservation with some local examples included. Will's talk will also discuss the value of citizen science and the important role that clubs like TFNC play in supporting knowledge of flora and fauna species distribution.

CLUB OUTING: Sunday 04^th August, bus trip to Nudgee beach and Boondall wetlands

The bus is fully booked. Commiserations if you missed out.

April Meeting Details - Guest Speakers: 3 of our members, 1 April 2022

Time and Place:

 7.00pm. St. Anthony’s Community Centre, Memory Street, Toowoomba

Guest Speakers:

Francis Mangubhai will talk briefly about platypus, focusing on some of its characteristics. He will end by showing some photos of platypus of Broken River in Eungella National Park, which he and Linda have visited.

Mike Ford will talk about the Serengeti in Tanzania, and his experience building a new hotel there before the Serengeti became a real tourist destination. He will speak of the realities that he faced, as well as the magnificence of the Serengeti, and of the project as a whole.

Mary Petr will talk about Arkaroola, in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, focusing on the flora, geology and general scenery. Arkaroola presents an ancient landscape with iconic views that many of us will be familiar with from calendars and other publications. Mary will get us up close to the landscape with a personal view of it.

Followed by supper

Current COVID Rules for Attending Meetings at St Anthony’s:
1. Until further notice, only double vaccinated members will be allowed to attend our Friday meetings.
2. Because we have supper at our Meetings, members will have to log in to the Queensland Covid App. If you have attached your vaccination certificate to this App, your name will show with a green tick, signifying that you are double vaccinated. If your vaccination certificate is not on your phone, please bring along a paper copy.
3. People with a medical exemption for COVID vaccination can attend but should wear a mask.
4. It is strongly recommended that you wear a mask during the meeting.

We are sorry to any unvaccinated members but we, the Committee, are asking you not to attend meetings until the State Government changes the rules.