Wildlife

Our mission is to protect, maintain, and restore native animal life on the land, up in the air, and in the waters around Bribie Island.

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.

Have a look at the projects currently being coordinated by members of this team and see if there are any things you'd like to help with.

Note: Teams generally use WhatsApp to keep in touch between meetings.

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, promoting community stewardship of dugongs, and advocating for better protections of their seagrass habitat.
	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.