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2018 AGM Report AGM 2018 Annual Report CONVENOR’S REPORT Another year has passed! Time for me to reflect back to 2017 - to think about our achievements and our campaigns, and to thank our members, particularly those who contribute their time to BirdLife Southern Queensland. I cannot mention everyone by name, but sincere thanks to each and everyone of our wonderful volunteers – without you, BSQ could not exist! Each year at our AGM we name the recipient(s) of our Distinguished Service Award. In 2017, Peter Crane, who has now been the editor of Warbler for more than 6 years, was surely one of our most deserving recipients. His commitment to this endeavour is more than appreciated. The second Moreton Bay Ramsar Wetland: The mudflats in front of Cassim Island, Cleveland recipient was Bob Westerman. Bob is a member of our Gold (Chris Walker) Coast Branch. His single-minded determination to save the shorebirds of the Broadwater is an exemplar to all, and we We continue to work with local community groups, are proud to support him! particularly Chris Walker and Stephen McDonald, to oppose the Toondah Harbour development. For the record, we are We welcomed Callan Alexander to the committee and said not against the development of Toondah per se, but that a farewell to Laura Anderson and to Val Catchpoole, who ‘Priority Development Area’ was established in a Ramsar site, resigned so that she could focus all of her energies on the that is also a Key Biodiversity Area, home to hundreds of Bird Education Group (previously the Joint BSQ/BQ Education migratory shorebirds, including the critically endangered Subcommittee). Our thanks to Val, in particular for her Eastern Curlew. How can an area that ticks every dedication to educating young people about the importance conservation box be approved as a controlled action by the of our birds. Australian Government? Time will tell, but as I write, the Walker Group has released a third iteration of its plan. Whilst In 2017, Dr Monica Awasthy was appointed as the Co- this addresses issues associated with the Cassim Island Manager of BirdLife Australia’s Birds in Backyards Program. roost, the footprint onto the Ramsar site remains the same, Monica continues to attend our committee meetings as an ex so we will continue our opposition to this development. officio member, and we continue to benefit from her experience and advice. 2017 was a busy year for Dr Gary Fitt Leaving the challenging environmental landscape behind, and Dr Sam Price, but I am pleased to say that they and all three great BSQ projects highlight the importance of bar one of the remaining members of the 2017 committee conservation initiatives on private land. Our partnership with will be renominating. Sadly, Jessie Oliver, who joined the Unitywater to monitor Yandina Creek Wetlands was cemented committee in 2014, will be leaving us. The good news is that in the middle of the year, with workshops and baseline we will still be able to draw on her considerable expertise in surveys commencing in November. Teams of enthusiastic citizen science when needed. We wish her well for the future volunteers braved an awful lot of mosquitoes to get collect and thank her for her contribution to BSQ. this baseline data - thanks to each and everyone of them. Special thanks to Greg Roberts, not only for putting the I wish Annual Reports could just focus on good news, but our plight of Yandina on the record and for tirelessly campaigning environment and our birds continue to be threatened on so for its preservation, but also for providing his expertise when many fronts! Broad scale land clearing continues. Unfettered the survey transects were established. And Russ Lamb did a developments, approved without reference to cumulative great job working with Kylie Crouch from Unitywater to get impacts make a nonsense of the laws that are supposed to the survey transects appropriately marked. Knowing that at protect threatened and vulnerable species. Shorebird least some of the floodgates have been opened recently has conservation remains a priority. The Turtle Cove been much celebrated! development in the Great Sandy Straits KBA will impact on an area that holds thousands of migratory shorebirds, and a Our 20 Million Trees Project with CO2 Australia and a planned mine at Aldershot will discharge contaminated water visionary landholder in Texas continues. Thousands of trees into the Mary and Susan Rivers, both of which feed into the were planted in September and on a recent survey it was Great Sandy Straits. Unless the precautionary principle is stunning to see how well many of these trees have fared! applied, and unless developments like these, and other kinds, The bird species richness on this property is wonderful and are assessed on the basis of cumulative impacts, bird can only get better in the future. Thanks to all those who populations will continue to decline. regularly commit to this project, particularly to Paul and Leanne Grimshaw and Neil Humphris who have been on every survey, to the landholder for her generosity in allowing us unfettered access to her land the homestead, and to the Rochelle has now relocated to Western Australia, but prior to CO2 Australia ecologists who work with us on these great that, at the last AGM she stepped up to be Co-Convenor. You surveys! can imagine this was very much appreciated! Rochelle continues to contribute from WA – as our eNews editor and as the Co-Chair of the Queensland Ornithological Conference organising subcommittee. Dr Rob Clemens is now our BSO. He has done a remarkable job! He has been instrumental in getting the Yandina and Brolga Lakes surveys off the ground. As a committed ‘Woodfordian’, he instigated our first foray into the Woodford Folk Festival scene in December last year. With his dedicated enthusiasm, and with the help of Sheena Gillman and Jessie Oliver and other volunteers, we reached thousands of people and have committed to this event in future years. He has also doggedly chased grant opportunities, and thanks to him and all the volunteers working with him, our Powerful Owl Project has provided us with much needed data and insights into the distribution of this enigmatic species in southeast Queensland. I am sure you will read more about this in his report. Of course, having a paid employee brings with it One of our 20 Million Trees survey teams: L-R Neil Humphris, Sheena Gilman, responsibilities not previously known to our committee. The Deborah Metters, Christopher Ewing (Christopher Ewing) initial pilot was jointly funded by BirdLife Australia, but since In May last year, we were told about ‘Brolga Lakes’ near July 2017 BSQ has taken over sole responsibility for funding Deception Bay. It was hard to grasp that the Alzini family, in this position. Apart from grant funding, which occasionally partnership with the Sunrise Australia Group (SAG), wanted supports funding for staff, we have been able to do this to gift over 75 hectares of conservation land, including largely because of the income we receive from the sales of multiple wetland sites, to BirdLife Australia. Not only that, the our book ‘The Birds of Southeast Queensland’. Neil Humphris plans included planting over a million trees, shrubs and continues to devote considerable time to this great product. grasses in the conservation area AND gifting a purpose built The third edition was published last year and has almost sold Interpretive Centre to BirdLife Australia AND establishing an out – the fourth edition is on its way. We owe Neil a huge income stream to ensure sustainability into the future! debt! He is ably supported by Ivan Reynolds and Meg Gordon Whilst there are still a few legal items that are in the process who continue to be fantastic booksellers!! of being settled, BSQ commenced a monthly bird-monitoring project in November. A heartfelt thanks to the Alzini family Neil also chairs the Education Subcommittee. He and and to Michael Myer and Dan Raymond from SAG for giving committee member Ellen Thompson (the BSQ Birdata us early access to the site – you can expect to read a lot Coordinator) are members of the Bird Education Group more about Brolga Lakes in future editions of Warbler and (previously known as the Joint BSQ/BQ Education the BirdLife Magazine. Subcommittee). The BEG is a tour de force! With a few dedicated volunteers, its schools outreach program is more than admirable. You can read about it in Neil’s report. We thank Neil, and all members of the BEG for their dedication! I hope you take time to read the reports from our Local Branch Convenors. Beth Hall tells us that in 2017 the Gold Coast Branch counted 34093 birds and 233 species! That is impressive stuff and their brochure ‘Bird Places of the Gold Coast’ is so popular I have lost count of the reprints! Kathy Clark and her Redland Branch, with help from members of our committee and members of Brisbane South have produced ‘Bird Places of the Redlands’ using the same format used by the Gold Coast Branch. We commend Kathy, her deputy, Joy Graydon and other members of her branch for also taking the initiative in local conservation issues. Brolga Lakes: A new conservation hub for southeast Queensland (Judith Hoyle) After many years at the helm of Brisbane South, Sandra Many of you will be aware that we appointed our first paid Gallienne has temporarily relocated to Toowoomba, and member of staff in late 2016. Dr Rochelle Steven stepped Rodney Appleby has gamely stepped into her shoes. down from the committee to be our first part-time Branch Thankfully, Sandra remains an active participant in our 20 Support Officer (BSO).
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