• Ergon supports tree planting

A group of 11 Ergon Energy staff from both the Network and Retail businesses joined the Green Space Our Place team to plant 300 trees at the South Side Tracks & Reveg site in November as a part of their volunteer program.

JOIN THE FRIENDS

Friends of the Botanic Gardens, Cairns

Membership details- phone 4032 3900 or email info@botanicfriendscairns.org.au After joining you can support the Friends in many ways; as a committee member, in the Friends Shop, as a tour guide or assisting with events.

Friends of Sugarworld Botanic Gardens

Contact Fran Lindsay frantastic10@bigpond.com

Newsletter Contributions:

Please submit articles (must be volunteer or nature based) by fi rst week of February for the next quarterly publication in March. Email: l.grandy@cairns.qld.gov.au Please note articles are subject to editing.

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Green Space Our Place

• Mondays - Russell St Environmental Park Egrets 9am-noon • Tuesdays - Cattana Wetlands Jabirus 9am-noon • Tuesdays - City Sandpipers, Tuesdays 9am-noon • Wednesdays - Botanic Gardens Down ’n’ Dirty volunteers 9am-noon • Wednesdays - Tracks ‘n’ Trails 9am-noon • Thursdays - Stratford Nursery 9am-noon • Thursday (once a month) - Sugarworld Gardeners & Friends • Fridays - Saltwater Creek ‘Salties’ 9am-noon • Fortnightly Thursdays - Children’s Nature Activities Program - Little

Taccas • Visitor Enhancement Volunteers - rostered hours to suit individual • Heritage Tour Guides - Thursday 10am

Interested in becoming involved with your local park, reserve or tracks in your community? Contact us to register as a Council volunteer and be involved in beautifying your park (enhance planting, weed management, litter clean-up), reporting on issues (graffi ti and vandalism, anti-social behaviour, maintenance issues) and building community participation (networking activities) with Council support. If you are interested in supporting any of our weekly groups or volunteering in your local area contact Volunteers Supervisor Louisa Grandy 4032 6648 or email greenspaceourplace@cairns.qld.gov.au