Today on the show we are hanging out with Professor Rod Fensham, in 2020 Professor Fensham formed the Fellowship of the Spring, an international consortium of people concerned with understanding dryland springs and securing their preservation.

In the lead up to the Wangan and Jagalingou film Nagana Yarrbayn: The Water Protectors coming to Brisbane on the 31st of March we are going to talk about springs and why they are so important. https://events.humanitix.com/water-protectors-brisbane

Save Woogaroo Forest is in need of 200 more submissions for an EPBC referral, to save Woogaroo forest from development. Developers are planning to remove 136 hectares of native vegetation in Ipswich which is core Koala habitat, go to https://savewoogarooforest.com.au/springview and make a submission.

Saturday 14th

• 8:00 - 10:00 - Rome Street Bushcare - 32 Rome Street, Coorparoo
• 10:00 - 12:00 - Glossy Guardian Workshop - Albany Creek Community Centre, Albany Creek
• 18:15 - 20:15 - Toad Busting - Eagleby Wetlands, Eagleby

Sunday 15th

• 7:30 - 10:00 - Harman’s Reserve Working Bee - Harman’s Park, Manly
• 8:00 - 10:00 - March Working Bee - Riverdale Park, Meadowbrook
• 8:00 - 10:00 - Come & Try Bushcare Opossum Creek Regenerative Project - Opossum Creek, Brookwater
• 14:00 - 16:00 - Bushcare and Beer - Oxley Creek Common, Rocklea

Tuesday 17th

• 8:30 - 10:00 - Dunn Road Bushcare - 159 Dunn Road, Rocklea

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show we are hanging out with Jon Watson, Jon is attempting to live within our share of the planetary boundaries here in suburban Brisbane.

livingmorewithless.org

Later in the show we will bring you an Interview with Joseph Ka’au, a customary chief of the Kaimari tribe and traditional landowner from Baimuru in the Purari Delta. Joseph is leading a campaign to protect his people's land from destruction by a LNG project there in Papua New Guinea.

https://chuffed.org/project/170447-purari-delta-communities-legal-assistance

Friday 6th

• 18:30 - 20:30 - Cane Toad Bust at Whites Hill Reserve - Whites Hill Children’s Playground, Camp Hill
• 20:00 - 22:00 - Intro to Screen Printing Workshop, Brisbane Tool Library - 221D MacArthur Ave, Hamilton

Saturday 7th

• 8:00 - March Community Planting - Clarina Street Park, Chapel Hill
• 13:30 - 15:00 - Brisbane Community Seed Swap - Northgate Hall, Northgate
• 19:15 - 21:15 - GoldCoast Toad Track Community Toad Bust - Eddie Kornhauser Recreational Reserve, Elanora

Sunday 8th

• 8:00 - 10:00 - Come and Try Bushcare - Lorikeet Street Reserve, Bundamba
• 15:00 - 17:00 - Balis St Bushcare and Beers - Balis Street Park, Holland Park West
• 15:30 - 17:30 - Yeronga Bushcare March Working Bee - Anita Street Park, Yeronga

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show we are hanging out with Bryologist, Andrew Franks. I first met Andrew when he was working at the Queensland herbarium and he took me for a walk around a forest to look at moss. I had such a good time learning about moss in 2022 so I present to you a 3 part moss interview today.

Saturday 28th

• 8:00 - 9:30 - Our Beaches and Waterways Community Dune Planting - Mills Street, Bilinga
• 9:00 - 11:30 - Wongam Koala Catchment Care Day - Corner of Blue Hills Drive & Birdsong Place, Bunya
• 9:00 - 12:00 - Bulimba Creek Clean Up - Preston Road Park, Carindale
• 14:00 - 17:00 - February Working Bee - 114 Nicholson Street, Greenslopes
• 16:00 - Victoria Park Has a Blak History - Ibis Island, Herston

Sunday 1st

• 8:00 - 10:00 - Gold Coast Community Beach Cleans for Conservation - Justins Park, Burleigh Heads
• 8:00 - 10:00 - Clean Up Tinchi Tamba Wetlands - 321 Wyampa Road, Bald Hills

Tuesday 3rd

• 17:30 - 20:30 - Biodiversity Collage Brisbane - 2/315 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show I will be playing an interview Dave did with Mia Bloom, who blocked the entrance of Ferra engineering on Monday in an effort to slow the production of F-35 jet parts that get used in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

Ecoradio contributor, Kirstyn Lindsay, has brought us a report about the ongoing efforts to recover the Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, Kirstyn sat down with the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland Projects Manager, Matt Cecil.

Saturday 21st

• 7:00 - 9:00 - Kalinga Park Bushcare Group Working Bee - Kalinga Park, Nundah
• 7:00 - 10:00 - Come when you can Bushcare Working Bee - Quandong Park, Ashgrove
• 8:00 - 10:00 - Working Bee - Ian Page Park, Carina
• 9:00 - 11:30 - Four Mile Creek Catchment Care Day - Lawnton Reserve, Strathpine
• 15:00 - Arnwood Place Bushcare - Arnwood Place, Annerley

Sunday 22nd

• 7:00 - 9:00 - Cicada Park Bushcare - 69 Ironbark Road, Chapel Hill
• 8:00 - 10:00 - Bushcare Working Bee - 31 Nathan Avenue, Ashgrove
• 8:00 - 10:00 - February Bushcare in the Park - Rikki Bailey Park, Oxley

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show we are talking to Burnice Starkey, she is a resident of the Glass House Mountains and is campaigning to Save Our Glass House Mountains from the expansion of a quarry. Later in the show we will be talking to Aunty Dale Chapman about bushfood workshops that she will be running this Saturday at the Gathaa First Nations Markets on the Sunny Coast.

https://www.soghm.org.au/

https://gathaamarkets.com.au/collections/gathaa-workshops/products/gathaa-bushfood-lovers-market-14-february

https://mydillybag.com.au/

Saturday 14th

• 07:30 - 09:30 - Rome Street Bushcare Working Bee - 32 Rome St, Coorparoo
• 08:00 - Growing Forward Dutton Park Commons Working Bee - 381 Gladstone Rd, Dutton Park
• 08:00 - 10:00 - Glindemann Park Working Bee - Logan Rd, Holland Park West
• 10:00 - 15:00 Gathaa First Nations Market and Bushfood Workshops - Mooloolah River Landcare Native Nursery, Sunshine Coast

Sunday 15th

• 07:00 - 09:00 - Whites Hill Reserve Bushcare Working Bee - Jones Rd entrance, Carina Heights
• 07:30 - 10:00 - Harman’s Reserve Bushcare Working Bee - 34 Wood Street, Manly
• 08:00 - 10:00 - Slacks Creek Catchment Group Bushcare Working Bee - Riverdale Park, Meadowbrook
• 15:00 - Justice for Palestine Magan-djin - Don’t Stop Fighting For Palestine Rally - King George Sq, Brisbane City

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show we are talking to Rebecca Appleton, who works as an educator and rescuer with Bat Conservation and Rescue Queensland. Bec is going to tell us about the reinstated shooting permits of bats and how there are effective ways to keep bats from destroying crops.

Sign this petition.

Wednesday 4th

• 18:30 - 20:30 - Work that Reconnects Summer Study–Action Circle: Coming Back to Life - Online Event

Saturday 7th

• 7:00 - 9:00 - Crosby Road Bushcare - Crosby Road Park, Ascot
• 8:30 - 9:30 - Bowie’s Flat Bushcare - Bowies Flat Wetlands, Coorparoo
• 15:00 - 17:00 - Creeping Inch Plant Working Bee - Lochinvar Lane, The Gap

Sunday 8th

• 7:00 - 11:00 - February Working Bee - Brandon Road, Runcorn
• 8:00 - February Working Bee - Clarina Street Park Playground, Chapel Hill
• 8:00 - 10:00 - Caring for Your Creek Working Bee - Platypus Park, Mount Crosby
• 15:30 - 17:30 - Yeronga Bushcare February Working Bee - Anita Street Park, Yeronga

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

On today's program we played a couple of speeches from the Invasion Day rally in Brisbane and then gave re-cap about Watergum's Great Cane Toad Bust 2026.

Thursday 29th

• 11:45 - 13:45 - Seagrass Monitoring at Currumbin Creek - Thrower Drive Public Boat Ramp, Currumbin

Saturday 31st

• 6:30 - 9:30 - Habitat Brisbane Bushcare Working Bee - Quandong Park, Ashgrove
• 8:30 - Gertrude Petty Place January Bushcare - 26 Mount Gravatt Outlook Drive, Mount Gravatt
• 9:00 - 11:00 - Working Bee January - Chermside Hills Reserve, Chermside West
• 15:00 - 17:30 - January Working Bee - DCP, Greenslopes

Sunday 1st

• 8:00 - 10:00 - Nature Smartphone Photography - Plunkett Conservation Park, Yarrabilba
• 8:30 - 10:30 - Bushcare Working Bee in February - Berrinba Wetlands, Berrinba
• 9:00 - 11:00 - Bushcare off Taringa Parade - Moore Park, Indooroopilly
• 16:00 - 19:30 - Why the Economy Isn’t Working and How We Can Fix It: 'Purpose' Film Screening and Panel Discussion - Online Event

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio

Today on the show we are talking to Tiyana Jovanovic from the New Economy Network Australia (NENA). NENA is hosting a series of events called reclaim the economy from the 26th of Jan to the 1st of February.

• https://www.neweconomy.org.au/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUzS3uDr0zMQKJiD5B1dkag

Great cane toad bust 17 - 25 January - Check for events in your area!

Saturday 24th

• 8:00 - 12:00 - Oyster Basket Recycling Working Bee - 2 Whimbrel Street, Port of Brisbane

Sunday 25th

• 6:00 - 9:00 - Taringa Community Gardening Bee - 9 Heroes Avenue, Toowong
• 8:00 - 10:00 - January Working Bee - Riverdale Park, Meadowbrook
• 8:30 - 12:00 - Family Tree Planting Day: Trees 4 Resilience Climate Action - Glenview
• 16:00 - 18:00 - Maintenance/Bush Tucker Working Bee - Yoorala Street Community Garden, The Gap
• 19:00 - Cane Toad Busting Toohey Forest - Bloodwood Track off Isabella Street, Tarragindi

Tuesday 27th

• 9:00 - 10:00 - Sea Slug Survey in the Rocky Shores - John Laws Park, Burleigh Heads

🔗 If you'd like to listen back to the episode, you can listen On Demand or the Podcast by going to https://4zzz.org.au/program/eco-radio