Volunteer Bushcare Working Bee - Stonebrook Bushcare Group
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Join other like-minded volunteers to help protect and restore Brisbane’s unique biodiversity through our Habitat Brisbane program. Whatever your skill level and motivation, joining your local Habitat Brisbane group is a great way to connect to nature and be active and healthy, all while meeting new people, developing new skills and making a difference to your local environment. With 160 groups across the city there’s bound to be one near you! Habitat Brisbane volunteers undertake a variety of activities including: managing environmental weeds revegetating with local native plants creating habitat for native wildlife citizen science projects. The Stonebrook Bushcare Group meet the third Sunday of each month, in the morning. Location: Purtell Park, Bardon. Park near the Purtell Park football field carpark along Lorwood Avenue, and walk to the creek to meet the group.
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