Koala rescuers have noticed a steep increase in callouts to local koalas in the past couple of years, which suggests that numbers are holding, if not actually increasing, across the shire. And if one extrapolates the density discovered in Yurol and Ringtail to other known koala habitat in Noosa, we are talking about potentially thousands of koalas already surviving, reproducing, and living the Noosa dream.
Look north from Noosa Main Beach and the Cooloola section of The Great Sandy National Park stretches away to the horizon. More than just a wonderful stretch of coastline, it is also a geological marvel: part of the largest vegetated dune system on the planet.
Have you ever seen the delightful face of a Short-eared Brushtail Possum peeking out of its hidey-hole in an arboreal termite mound?
How about a Platypus surfacing to grind up its catch? Or a Red-browed Finch leaping up and down on the spot with a flower in its beak (it’s called a stem display, performed to attract the opposite sex)?
All of this and much more has greeted me on frequent visits to one very small patch of Noosa Shire.
All of us who care about Noosa say thank you and farewell to Cecily Fearnley who has passed away just short of her 97th birthday. As a bushwalker and nature lover, Cecily became one of the foundation members of Noosa
Joel Fostin is the Pandanus Man. He’s run a long crusade to save the iconic Pandanus that is under threat from a tiny beatle that’s wiping out thousands of these trees that are vital to our coastal ecosystem.
An inspiring story about the old and new generations trying to save Noosa’s threatened Glossy Black Cockatoo.
Koala rescuers have noticed a steep increase in callouts to local koalas in the past couple of years, which suggests that numbers are holding, if not actually increasing, across the shire. And if one extrapolates the density discovered in Yurol and Ringtail to other known koala habitat in Noosa, we are talking about potentially thousands of koalas already surviving, reproducing, and living the Noosa dream.
Look north from Noosa Main Beach and the Cooloola section of The Great Sandy National Park stretches away to the horizon. More than just a wonderful stretch of coastline, it is also a geological marvel: part of the largest vegetated dune system on the planet.
Have you ever seen the delightful face of a Short-eared Brushtail Possum peeking out of its hidey-hole in an arboreal termite mound?
How about a Platypus surfacing to grind up its catch? Or a Red-browed Finch leaping up and down on the spot with a flower in its beak (it’s called a stem display, performed to attract the opposite sex)?
All of this and much more has greeted me on frequent visits to one very small patch of Noosa Shire.
All of us who care about Noosa say thank you and farewell to Cecily Fearnley who has passed away just short of her 97th birthday. As a bushwalker and nature lover, Cecily became one of the foundation members of Noosa
Joel Fostin is the Pandanus Man. He’s run a long crusade to save the iconic Pandanus that is under threat from a tiny beatle that’s wiping out thousands of these trees that are vital to our coastal ecosystem.
An inspiring story about the old and new generations trying to save Noosa’s threatened Glossy Black Cockatoo.