Thanks to the generosity of the Red Cross, the MCCG now has an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) installed at the Nursery. This will improve safety for our volunteers, due to the isolated nature of the Cottage.

The Lifeline View defibrillator has an innovative LCD video feature that literally shows rescuers how to perform each step of a Sudden Cardiac Arrest rescue in real time – in accordance with the latest Australian Resuscitation guidelines.

The colour video is reinforced by loud and clear audio and corresponding text that can be understood in noisy environments. For example, when the VIEW’s audio says and text reads: “Place pads on patient’s chest,” the video shows exactly where to place the pads.

The defib was paid for in full by a grant received from the Office of Liquor and Gaming Regulation (OLGR). 

*Project Defib is a Red Cross initiative which aims to reduce the number of deaths caused by sudden cardiac arrest by making defibrillators and related training and support accessible to sporting clubs, schools and not for profits across Australia. More than 30,000 Australians suffer from sudden cardiac arrest every year of which only 5% survive. Immediate access to a defibrillator can lead to a 70% survival rate if applied quickly. Project Defib is a national program which enables every sporting club, school and not for profit in Australia access to a subsidised Lifeline VIEW Defibrillator package which includes training and ongoing support. For more info, please visit their website.

SUCH exciting news! Ed Fraser captured this photo of the Superb Fruit-Dove on 18th April. 

It was taken at Brookfield and is the first recorded sighting of this bird in our catchment EVER!

Ed believes the bird may have been on its way to the Cape or Papua New Guinea.

There are fifty Fruit-Doves worldwide but only three are found in Australia: the Rose-Crowned, the Wompoo and the Superb.   

Now all three have been photographed right here in our catchment!

If you’d like to learn more about Fruit-doves, please click here to open the March 2017 edition of “Feather Fascination“.
Photo courtesy of Ed Fraser

You may think you’re familiar with these birds because  you’ve seen them in your garden but how much do you really know about them?

Jim Butler’s April issue of “Feather Fascination” contains some remarkable facts about Blue-faced Honeyeaters!

For instance, did you know that these nomadic birds have resided in Australia for several million years?

Click here and learn more! 

MCCG has a new Strategic Plan, together with an accompanying list of important actions.

These actions are listed under each strategy, with the intention of ensuring we don`t overreach ourselves in an attempt to do everything that needs to be done.

Thank you to everyone who helped with ideas, debate and plain hard work in putting this plan together. We will use it to guide us and to gauge our future performance. 

We invite you to read our Strategic Plan and the resulting Action Plan, and to reflect on our strategies to overcome the challenges ahead.

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We are passing on a request from Brisbane City Council’s Land for Wildlife officers.

They are seeking help with a stocktake of Richmond birdwing butterfly vine plantings on private and public land throughout the Western suburbs.

The aim is to get a picture of how many Pararistolochia praevenosa vines are out there so they can identify gaps in the landscape to connect up.

If you are able and are interested in contributing this project, please respond to the following questions as best as possible regarding any plantings on sites you know about:

• How many vines have been planted?
• How many vines are alive?
• Age of vines?
• Height of vines?
• Climbing plant or not?
• Overall condition of the vines?
• Location?
• Is there any potential planting for more vines?
• Any other properties/sites that have or may have RBV vine

Please spread the word to any neighbours or friends who may also be in a position to help!

EMERGENCY WORKING BEE SUNDAY 2 APRIL !!!!

LOOK at the destruction ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie inflicted on Tuckett Park this week:

So many of our plantings were knocked about by Debbie, particularly those at the Eastern end of Creekside Street – we’re keen re-stake them while the ground is still soft!

Can you help us this Sunday (2nd April) at 9.00 am with some re-staking? We’ll meet outside 90 Creekside Street Brookfield. It’s not hard work – we’ll show you what to do!

If you can help, please contact Jim Pope: j.pope@qut.edu.au or by phone: 3374 4181

Use it or lose it! Come and plant some trees at beautiful Tuckett Park next Sunday morning!

We’ll have approximately 160 assorted native trees/shrubs and 80 lomandras so it’ll be all hands on deck – easy work in the soft, moist soil!

Please consider joining us for an hour or two – whatever you can spare! 

For all the details, check out our Working Bee Calendar.

Remember to switch off your lights for Earth Hour from  8.30pm on Saturday 25 March! 

See the WWF Earth Hour 2017 website for more info and spread the word to neighbours, family and friends!

Calling all “UPPER GOLD CREEKERS!”

The first 2017 working bee for Section 9 will be held this Sunday 17 March 

We will meet at 8.30am at 658 Gold Creek Road

We really need all hands on deck and everyone is welcome – for all the details, please see our Working Bee Calendar.

Section Leader Gordon Grigg has also written a letter which provides some background about the group’s past achievements in restoring the land along Gold Creek Road and the continuing steps to keep this transformation well and truly alive.

Please take time to read the letter and consider joining a working bee or two. 

As Gordon points out, this doesn’t need to be a big time commitment and any offer of help, no matter how small, will be very gratefully received.

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