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Stingless Bee – Back from the Brink
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Stingless Bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) Pollinators play an integral role in the world’s ecosystem as they facilitate the pollination process of many of the world’s flowering plants. For example, without pollinators such as bees, agricultural crops would cease to thrive, leading to the demise of the animals that rely on them for sustenance, including us! (BBC,
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Grey-headed Flying-fox – Back from the Brink
Monday, 03 June 2019
Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) 52 million years ago, our early mammal ancestors living on a hotter, drier planet, developed something remarkable…the power of flight! This group of mammals, the bats, have since diversified across the globe into over 1,200 species. Here in South East Queensland, they have evolved into a spectrum of sizes, shapes and
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Plunkett Mallee – Back from the Brink
Sunday, 28 April 2019
Plunkett Mallee (Eucalyptus curtisii) Connecting Communities Native Seed Project – 2023 Update Author: Nicholas Groenenberg Since 2016, Natura Pacific has headed up an amazing project in South East Queensland to save native seeds from development areas and grow them into young plants for conservation areas. To date, over 7 million seeds of 136 species have
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Plastic in everyday life – Let’s reduce the use!
Friday, 26 April 2019
So Much Plastic! We see it on our beaches, in our street gutters and storm drains, wedged in trees, behind bushes and even in the stomachs of dead animals, yet for some reason we still use massive amounts of single use plastic on a daily basis. Humanity has created over 8.3 billion tons of plastic
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VIDEO: What about a vertical garden in your home?
Tuesday, 08 January 2019
Bringing a beautiful big garden to a small space The Natura Pacific team were recently offered the very rewarding job of creating a beautiful vertical garden at the home of Lorraine and Patrick on the Gold Coast. After moving into a smaller home they found they missed their garden so much that they went searching
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A big ‘Thank You’ from us to you!
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
The end of another year is approaching and we would like to take a moment to say thank you! Thank you for working alongside us or being involved with us and the projects we work on. We would like to share with you a little video about what we all have been able to achieve…
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Powerful Owl – Back from the Brink
Friday, 14 December 2018
Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) A sharp beak that can pierce the thickest of skin, talons capable of ripping flesh from the bone and a pair of eyes as strong as night-vision goggles. These abilities surely provide any bird of prey with an advantage to thrive in the forests of South East Queensland. But while these
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AAEE Feature Back from the Brink!
Wednesday, 07 November 2018
AAEE have shared our ‘Back from the Brink’ project in their latest ozEEnews… We were very proud to have an article about our video series ‘Back from the Brink’ published in the September issue of ‘ozEEnews’, the newsletter of the Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. To find out more about this inspiring organisation take
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Swamp Orchid – Back from the Brink
Friday, 05 October 2018
Swamp Orchid (Phaius australis) Once upon a time, huge tracts of the South East Queensland coastline were host to a thick, impenetrable forest of tea-tree swamps. This low-lying coastal land was a paradise for biodiversity with rich soils, plenty of water and luscious vegetation. It was also home to Australia’s tallest orchid. Standing at over
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