waterways Archives - Natura Pacific

Is there anything more precious than fresh water?

Monday, 12 July 2021 by Natura Pacific

Well, the waterways that carry our freshwater through the landscape… Queensland’s waterways are incredibly precious! Our huge state has always been a dry place, but with future predicted climate scenarios, water may become even more scarce than before. Waterways throughout Queensland come in an array of sizes and forms: from small ephemeral wetlands, overland

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Tagged under: catchments, coastal lakes, conservation, consulting, environment, freshwater lake, healthy waterways, SEQ Catchments, waterways, wetllands

VIDEO: Our beautiful water birds – take a closer look

Friday, 28 October 2016 by Natura Pacific

The Gold Coast is blessed with a huge network of of waterways and lake systems of both fresh and salt water, and even better, many are teeming with wildlife. In this video Rochelle shares an up close and personal glimpse of a few of our native water birds that are living in the freshwater lake

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Tagged under: biodiversity, black swan, catchments, don't feed the birds, freshwater lake, gold coast, healthy wildlife, native birds, waterways

Pimpama River Catchment Study Guide – South East QLD

Friday, 30 September 2016 by Natura Pacific

Produced during 2013, the Pimpama River Catchment Study Guide rolls together information on catchment health, environmental processes, cultural significance, water quality, catchment health assessment and monitoring procedures in a ‘user-friendly’ format for teachers and students. It also provides lesson plans including a catchment tour for teachers and students and work booklets for students from years

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Tagged under: catchments, environmental education, excursion, gold coast, Natura education, SEQ Catchments, study guide, teaching resource, teaching tool, waterways

Gold Coast Waterwatch Program – City of Gold Coast QLD

Wednesday, 28 September 2016 by Natura Pacific

Natura Pacific successfully coordinated the Gold Coast Waterwatch program from 2009 to 2016, teaching thousands of students from early childhood through to senior high school about the importance of our waterways and catchments. Natura Education’s efforts included lifting participation rates from an average of 1,700 students per annum to 3,096 in the first year to

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Tagged under: catchments, coastal ecosystems, environmental education, gold coast, Gold Coast Waterwatch, learning, Natura education, SEQ Catchments, water quality, waterwatch, waterways

VIDEO: Habitat for the future – a visit to the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre nursery

Friday, 09 September 2016 by Natura Pacific

Join Mark and Desiree as they show you the fantastic work that is being done at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre growing native seedlings to restore our waterway habitat. The Connecting Community for Waterways project is undertaken as a service to the community, and focuses on students and community collecting native seeds to provide as a

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Tagged under: Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre, biodiversity, catchments, connecting community for waterways, environment, habitat, healthy waterways awards, native plants, native seed collection, native seedlings, Natura pacific, restoration, seed collection, SEQ Catchments, waterways

Congratulations to the Healthy Waterways Award Winners for 2016

Friday, 15 July 2016 by Natura Pacific

Natura Education and our partners from the City of Gold Coast Catchment Management Unit were honoured to be among the finalists for this year’s Healthy Waterways Awards. In attending the Awards Ceremony and Gala Dinner last week, we were so proud to be in the company of so many who are contributing truly wonderful things to

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Tagged under: 2016 healthy waterways awards, environmental education, field guide, Gold Coast Waterwatch, healthy waterways, Natura education, teaching resource, waterwatch, waterways, waterways field guide

Waterways Field Guides now available at Gold Coast Libraries

Thursday, 23 June 2016 by Natura Pacific

Some exciting news this week for the many people who have shown interest in the recently released Waterways Field Guides – they are now available at the many branches of Gold Coast Libraries. In fact we were very excited to receive a photograph of a display set up by the Southport Branch Library showcasing these

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Tagged under: catchments, environmental education, field guide, gold coast, healthy waterways awards, Natura education, outdoor education, teaching resource, teaching tool, water bugs, waterwatch, waterways

A new species of water bug on the Gold Coast

Monday, 13 June 2016 by Natura Pacific

Here at Natura Education we are very privileged to be working with a team of educators and scientists that are not only skilled in delivering a variety of education programs to students of all ages, but are also experts in their respective fields. John Pumpurs is Natura Education’s resident frog and water bug expert and

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Tagged under: biodiversity, coastal ecosystems, environment, environmental education, field guide, gold coast, learning, macro invertebrates, Natura education, SEQ Catchments, teaching resource, water bugs, water quality, waterwatch, waterways

We are 2016 Healthy Waterways Awards Finalists!

Wednesday, 01 June 2016 by Natura Pacific

We are very excited to share that our recently released Waterways Field Guide has been nominated as a finalist for the 2016 Healthy Waterways Awards, in the category of Sustainable Education. These guides were developed as an initiative of Gold Coast Waterwatch, which was supported and undertaken by both the City of Gold Coast Catchment Management

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Tagged under: 2016 healthy waterways awards, biodiversity, catchments, coastal ecosystems, environment, environmental education, field guide, gold coast, healthy waterways awards, kids in nature, learning, macro invertebrates, Natura education, outdoor education, SEQ Catchments, water bugs, water quality, waterwatch, waterways

Waterways Field Guide – Series 2 to 4 are here!

Friday, 27 May 2016 by Natura Pacific

In December last year, Natura Pacific and City of Gold Coast released the first in a series of field guides titled “Waterways Field Guide, Series 1: Water Bugs”. Take a look at our article on this here. Being an initiative of Gold Coast Waterwatch, the Water Bugs guide was quickly heralded to be a success by

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Tagged under: catchments, coastal ecosystems, environment, environmental education, field guide, gold coast, learning, Natura education, outdoor education, SEQ Catchments, teaching resource, teaching tool, water bugs, waterwatch, waterways