
Wildlife
Goals
Engender a sense of community stewardship of Bribie Island’s wildlife through broad participation in Wildlife Team projects.
Participate in City of Moreton Bay’s Biodiversity Reference Group, advocating for improvements in planning outcomes for Bribie Island’s nature.
Maintain an ongoing sightings register that records the geospatial habits of Pumicestone Passage's dugongs, to assist researchers and inform natural resource managers.
Establish an ongoing dolphin sightings register to inform natural resource managers and achieve better conservation outcomes.
Organise seasonal Bioblitz events that add to Bribie Island’s biodiversity evidence-base, and that promote community engagement with nature.
Develop data management processes that ensure that all verified biodiversity data gathered is channelled to appropriate State and National species databases.
Establish a Marine Turtle Education and Monitoring Support Program in conjunction with QPWS, to be rolled-out for the 2023/24 turtle nesting season.
Advocate for improved protections for the threatened shorebirds of Bribie Island and surrounds, and a reduction in human-preventable disturbances.
Volunteers
Team leaders coordinating projects and reporting to Management Committee:
Darren Jew
Diane Oxenford
Active Project Members participate in the running of their chosen project/s on a semi-regular/regular basis.
Sandra Bayley
Tracey Benson
May Britton
Noleen Brown
Sherry Bruce
Jayda Bruce
Kathleen Catalan
Jo Cowan
Paul Cuddihy
Pete Garbett
Kylie Hakens
Colleen Ogilvy
Susan Parker
Donna Pearce
Deirdre Reynolds
Jean Taplin
Brendan Walsh
Team Helpers are on-call when extra help is needed from time-to-time.
Jenny Archer
Angela Armitage
Beverley Biram
Ishaan Deswal
Deb Elliott-French
Kylie Hankens
Fiona Harding
Lesley Kendall
Richard Mayer
Jen Neale
Liz O'Byrne
Kit Pendergast
Maja Lisa Pinci
Chantel Priddey
Loris Roubin
Zdena Rumreich
Narelle Saville
Annette Schnack
Paul Seto
Camilla Smith
Irene Sourgnes
Geoffrey Speakman
Nadja Tamas
Josefina Thomas
Helen Twaddle
Jan Van-Arnhem
Anita Walker
Jenny Walker
Carol Wood
Karen Wilson
Lesley Wright
Wildlife Team Projects are managed using WhatsApp Chat Groups and in-person or remote meetings. Please get in touch if you'd like to get involved!
To be a member of this team you must be a BIEPA member, able to commit some of your time to work on progressing projects, and be on WhatsApp to keep in touch between meetings. Alternatively you can be a helper, getting involved in activities but not driving projects.
Projects
Team members are running these projects to reach the team's goals — anyone can be a helper on activities.
Dugong Diaries | Dugong Diaries is a citizen science project developing a picture of how dugongs utilise Bribie Island's waterways so they can be better protected. | |
Turtle Awareness | We raise community awareness of Bribie Island's threatened marine turtles and advocate for best-practice management of the island's nesting beaches and the surrounding Marine Park, to improve their protection. | |
Bribie Island Bioblitz | BIO = Life
BLITZ = To do something quickly and intensively
“A BioBlitz is a united effort to discover and record as many living things or evidence of
living things as possible, within a set location, over a given time period ” | |
Securing Shorebirds | Working, advocating, and collaborating to secure a future for the threatened Shorebirds of Bribie Island and surrounds. | |
Bribie Island Turtle Trackers | BIEPA commends the important work of Bribie Island Turtle Trackers (BITTs), a specialist group of autonomous, Government-trained and Accredited Turtle Monitors and Marine Strandings Responders who work directly to protect the marine turtles of Bribie Island and our surrounding waters. |