From the Editor

The Tracks ‘n’ Trails group are a fit and hard working bunch repairing Mt Whitfield’s arrow tracks.

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With a no chemical use policy, The Green Space is attracting wildlife: a juvenile White-lipped Tree Frog nestled in kale.

C O N T E N T S

In this issue:

• From the Editor.............................2 • Kawana Krew - new group in

Caravonica.....................................3 • The Vegie Patch...........................4 • The Green Space snippets.......4 • Friends provide funding for The

Green Space entry gate............5 • Volunteering opportunities......6 • Finalising Salties revegetation site at Yellow Arrow trail head...7 • Pandanus...................................8-9 • A year of discovery on a coral island.........................................10-11 • Moth Night at Cooktown Botanic

Gardens........................................12 • Friends provide tour for South

Australian birding group..........13 • Mud crab sculptures nip into a new home....................................14 • Track the state of the Cairns environment online...................15 • Introduced Featheries........16-17 • Feathered Friends....................17 • The world beneath our feet:

Earthworms..........................18-19

Editor - Volunteers Supervisor, Louisa Grandy Proof readers - Michelle Walkden Volunteers Jennifer H. Muir, Sandy Long Contributors: Tom Collis, Janice Pichon, Dr David Rentz AM, Jennifer H. Muir, John Peter, Barry Muir and Sarah Gosling.

From the Editor

Welcome, It has been a busy few months since the last magazine with a few changes to the Green Space Our Place operations. With his knowledge of track management, Volunteer Support Officer Christian Cluver has joined the Cairns Works team to support them and the city’s track networks at Mt Whitfield, Ivan Evans and Earl Hill. Christian will continue delivering the Tracks ‘n’ Trails and Sandpipers volunteer programs. Council’s native plant nursery at Stratford Depot, along with horticulturalist Ryan Zihrul, is now operating under the Green Space Our Place team which will add value to the revegetation programs we deliver.

We also have a new enthusiastic volunteer group at Kawana St in Caravonica (see next page). It has been a pleasure supporting them in their endeavours, with a total transformation of the middle island garden beds. There are also further opportunities to volunteer with the program, with two new activities being created before the end of the year - see page 6. We would also like to thank the Friends of Botanic Gardens Cairns for supporting The Green Space with their generous donation for the front entry gate.