Community Education | Mount Gravatt Environment Group

July 13, 2011

Mt Gravatt Environment Group Finalist in Brisbane’s Spotless Suburbs

Mt Gravatt Environment Group has joined Fox Gully Bushcare as a finalist in the 2011 Keep Australia Beautiful – Sp otless Suburbs Award.

Mt Gravatt Environment Group coordinates four Bushcare groups:

Gertrude Petty Place Bushcare – Sue Jones
Rover Street Bushcare – Brett Dugdale
Fox Gully Bushcare – Michael Fox
Roly Chapman Reserve Bushcare – currently no team leader

We appreciate Cr Adams’ support in nomination of of Mt Gravatt Environment Group and we are proud to represent our community by reaching the finals of the Brisbane’s Spotless Suburbs competition.

March 8, 2010

Echidna Magic opens for Clean Up Australia

Posted by Mt Gravatt Environment Group under Bush Tucker, Mt Gravatt Outlook Development | Tags: Brisbane, Clean Up Australia Day, Community Education, Echidna Magic, Environment, First Contact, Mt Gravatt, tourist |
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Echidna Magic Kiosk opended for MEG’s Clean Up Australia on Sunday … thank you to the First Contact team.

Trish Williams was obviously very proud as she told the planned opening times for Echidna Magic:

Kiosk

opens today – Monday 8th
opening times – 9am to 7pm Monday to Sunday

Restaurant

planned opening Monday 15th
opening times – 9am to 9pm Monday to Sunday

Personally I’m planning Sunday breakfast on the deck. Good food, strong coffee and a view to die for.

Congratulations and best wishes to Trish and her team.

We in MEG look forward to building a strong partnership: sharing our environmental knowledge and experiencing indigenous culture and history, as we recreate Mt Gravatt as one of Brisbane’s iconic community and tourist attractions.

Mike Fox

February 7, 2010

Mt Gravatt Envionrment Group finds its online voice

Posted by Mt Gravatt Environment Group under MEG Activities | Tags: BCC, Biodiversity, Birds, Brisbane, Bushcare, Butterfly, Community Education, Echidna, Environment, Gertude Petty, Habitat, Koala, MEG, Mt Gravatt, Native Plant Species, Roly Chapman, Walking Tracks, wildlife |
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Mt Gravatt Reserve is a unique island of Queensland bushland ten minutes from Brisbane CBD and home to Koalas, Echidnas, twenty seven different types of butterfly and dozens of birds.

The Reserve is Queensland State Governement land held in trust by the Brisbane City Council which in partnership with the community manages recreation, conservaiton of biodiversity, scenic amenity, heritage and social values of the site.

The amazing biodiversity of Mt Gravatt Reserve can be appreciated by considering in 66 hectares 245 native plant species have been identified which is equal to 10% of the total plant diversity in the 32 million hectares of England, Scotland and Wales.

Mount Gravatt Environment Group (MEG) is an umbrella group for four active groups of BCC Habitat Brisbane Bushcare volunteers restoring different parts of this bushland. Restoration activities range from removal of weeds/rubbish and planting of indiginous plant species to researching and mapping of plant and animal species, community education and consultation with BCC land management teams.

MEG supports bushcare groups restoring: