Apr 11
Protected: Waterways for Wildlife: One tree at a time
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Tag: Aroona Cattle Station
Apr 9
Protected: Little Liverpool Range Initiative: a collaborative partnership close to home
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Apr 3
Protected: Celebrating land management partnerships at Aroona
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Mar 26
Home Sweet Hollow: Containers For Change funds new nest boxes
Thanks to everyone’s Containers for Change donations, we were able to buy two new nest boxes. Bought from Sunshine Coast based organisation Hollow Log Homes, these nest boxes will act as artificial hollows for wildlife. Wildlife use tree hollows to nest and for shelter. The goal is for these nest boxes to supplement natural hollow habitat […]
Feb 22
Lachlan Hughes Foundation: Ben’s Regenerative Journey
“Here’s to our regenerative agriculture journeys: may they be full of opportunities for self-improvement and be a journey that never truly ends, but only evolves with each step we take.” – Ben Heathwood The Lachlan Hughes Foundation recently celebrated and reflected on the participants’ journeys over the last 12 months in the LHF program. […]
Aug 31
Brush Tail Rock Wallaby Post-Fire Recovery
The 2019-20 summer bushfires devastated much of Australia’s natural landscapes, and South East Queensland was no exemption. The bushfires greatly affected Main Range National Park and came eerily close to QTFN’s Long-term holding property: Aroona Station. Properties untouched by the fire like Aroona and much of the central Little Liverpool Range now provide refuge habitat for many […]
Feb 14
Accounting for Nature
In 2020, QTFN moved to implement the Accounting for Nature® Framework model at Aroona Station – a scientifically credible and trusted natural capital accounting standard used to measure the condition of environmental assets and inform investment and management decisions. As an approved provider of co-benefit verification under the Land Restoration Fund, Accounting for Nature® is […]
Feb 13
Refuge habitat for the brush-tailed rock-wallaby
Aroona Station features around 200 hectares of core habitat for the vulnerable brush-tailed rock-wallaby. In 2020, as part of our ongoing research into these unique Aroona residents, we completed our third year of breeding season monitoring programs using motion-sensitive wildlife cameras strategically positioned in known brush-tailed rock-wallaby hang outs. The monitoring program again showed Aroona […]
Feb 12
Counting the Co-Benefits
As the carbon offset or carbon farming market grows in its maturity, there is considerable interest in how biodiversity co-benefits can be harnessed and developed as a complementary market. QTFN’s Counting the Co-Benefits project will demonstrate how landholders can create a sustainable agribusiness by leveraging environmental markets to diversify their revenue streams. This initiative is […]
Feb 3
Measuring impact over the long-term
QTFN’s trial roll out of the award-winning Accounting for Nature® Framework at Koala Crossing provided an initial Environmental Condition Index (EcondTM) score/s for the property in 2020. A score between 0 and 100 that describes the condition of the asset relative to its undegraded state, early estimates of the the Econd™ for Koala Crossing point […]
Feb 2
Aroona Reptile Survey
On a very wet weekend in October 2017, 50 dedicated volunteers braved the weather to take part in our annual reptile and amphibian survey at Aroona. Our participants discovered six frog species and eight new reptile species that hadn’t been found at the property previously. But the icing on the (soggy) cake was our first […]
Feb 1
Ipswich City Council Enviro Organisation Award
Our CEO, Steve Lacey, was honoured to accept the 2019 Ipswich City Council Enviro Organisation Award on behalf of the QTFN team. The award recognised multiple activities to support threatened species and control predators at our 2000 ha cattle property, Aroona Station, 55km southwest of Ipswich. In accepting the award, Steve acknowledged the phenomenal legacy […]