Friends of Tamborine National Park (formerly Tamborine Bush Volunteers) are a group of volunteers for Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. Whilst not a member group within Tamborine Mountain Natural History Association Inc, it is proud to support their work for our local native biodiversity.
June 5 marked World Environment Day and the Tamborine Bush Volunteers (TBV) celebrated this day by starting a new project at their June working bee.
The Tamborine Bush Volunteers (TBV) have recently been joined by students from the Queensland Academy for Health Sciences, a high school on the Gold Coast for students in years 10 -12 studying the International Baccalaureate Diploma. As a part of this diploma, students are required to do Action and Service activities in the local community.
The Tamborine Bush Volunteers (TBV) have been caring for Tamborine National Park since May 1988. To celebrate the 20 year anniversary of the group, an informal afternoon tea was held recently at the picnic grounds at The Knoll Section of Tamborine National Park. This event brought together some past and present members and local supporters.
The Tamborine Bush Volunteers (TBV) and the Tamborine Mountain Natural History Association (TMNHA) hosted a camp for over 70 people held at The Beacon on Tamborine from 27 - 30 March.
This month marks twenty years of the Tamborine Bush Volunteers (TBV). Late in 1987 Jenny Schultz talked to Tamborine National Park ranger, John Johnstone, about forming a group of volunteers to help with work in Tamborine National Park.
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| Copies of the excellent & definitive “ The Mistletoes of Subtropical Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria” by local authors John Moss & Ross Kendall now on sale at $27.50 from Mike Russell (5545 3601). |
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| TAMBORINE MOUNTAIN FLORA & FAUNA by Russell, Leiper, White, Francis, Hauser, McDonald & Sims is now on sale at local outlets for $15. |
Why does attentiveness to nature matter? In a very fundamental sense, we are what we pay attention to. Paying heed to beauty, grace, and everyday miracles promotes a sense of possibility and coherence that runs deeper and truer than the often illusory commercial, social "realities" advanced by mainstream contemporary culture. ... Our attention is precious, and what we choose to focus it on has enormous consequences. What we choose to look at, and to listen to--these choices change the world. As Thich Nhat Hanh has pointed out, we become the bad television programs that we watch. A society that expends its energies tracking the latest doings of the celebrity couple is fundamentally distinct from one that watches for the first arriving spring migrant birds, or takes a weekend to check out insects in a mountain stream, or looks inside flowers to admire the marvelous ingenuities involved in pollination. The former tends to drag culture down to its lowest commonalities; the latter can lift us up in a sense of unity with all life. The Way of Natural History, edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by Trinity University Press (Texas)
