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Thank you, Gambling Community Benefit Fund

for providing the funds for dissecting and field microscopes, GPS units, a PA system, and a marquee. All items will help our Network to work more effectively, be it during workshops, field trips, general and other meetings, and our many indoor and outdoor events community events.

Thank you, Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

for approving our Small Equipment Grant application. The funds will provide a range of direct benefits to volunteer and other community members participating in our activities by enabling us to purchase equipment which will be used during community events/workshops/Network meetings/field activities. CWCN is most appreciative of the help provided. (August 2007)

Thank you, Brisbane City Council

for approving our Environment Grant application and continuing to support our organisation's work. Many of our activities, our administrative expenses are backed by Council funds. CWCN is grateful for the help provided. (June 2007)

Wildlife of Greater Brisbane cover

QM wildlife pocket guides

Wildlife of Greater Brisbane - New Edition

The first issue of Queensland Museum’s Wildlife of Greater Brisbane turned into a bestseller with over 50 000 copies sold. This new edition is even more exciting with valuable and easy to read additional information provided. It does our regions rich fauna diversity justice by providing information on those species we are most likely to encounter in our natural environment. Hundreds of full colour pictures of exquisite quality are combined with descriptive information making the book an invaluable tool for any local nature lover and a joy to use.

Additional species information like on freshwater snails and mussels, on ants, on extinct and disappearing frogs, and on threats to our natural environment coming from cane toads, Asian house geckoes, the Red-eared slider turtle, foxes, rabbits, feral cats, and the Golden apple snail, a potentially serious threat to our waterways are included. This book has been produced with support from the BBC’s Natural Environment and Sustainability Branch. It is a sure must-have for any local nature lover.

Queensland Museum Pocket Guides

Queensland Museum has this year also published the first four of hopefully many wildlife pocket guides. Small in size (A6 format) they are easy to take along and extremely useful. All four little guides are equipped with stunning photos, supply information biology and habitat and enable identification.

Available at CWCN:

Wildlife of Greater Brisbane for $29.95 each

Pocket Guides on Ants, Fishes, Raptors and Snakes for $9.95 each

Healthy Waterways Awards

CWCN wins Healthy Waterways Awards 2006

Investing enthusiasm, imagination, lots of energy and plenty of volunteer hours in our ongoing project "Towards ecologically healthy and bio-diverse catchments through on-ground work and community education" paid off for our Network. We are the very proud recipients of the Natural Solutions sponsored community category of the Healthy Waterways Award and of the very prestigious Minister's Grand Prize for 2006. (April 2006)

Gambling Community Benefits Fund

Our application was approved and the moneys received are enabling us to finally purchase desperately needed equipment. A new computer, laptop, digital projector and display stands are among the items on our list. All items will make life a lot easier and enable us to do presentations, displays, produce educational material and to document our local natural history, and to let us work more efficiently. (December 2005)

CWCN hosts successful fungi conference

Our Network hosted the largest ever conference on macrofungi in Australia. The event was held at the Parliamentary Annexe in Brisbane and was attended by 150 people from mainly SE Qld but participants came from as far away as Cairns, Sydney and Western Australia. Scientists from all over Australia provided insights into the world of fungi. Among them were mycologists Dr Tony Young/Honorary Associate Qld Herbarium, Nigel Fechner/Qld Herbarium, Dr Tom May/Senior Mycologist/Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Dr Neale Bougher/ Associate WA Herbarium, Lichenologist Dr Rod Rogers/Associate Qld Herbarium, Dr Chris Burwell/Entomology Curator Qld Museum and Dr Karl Vernes/Ecosystem Management at The University of New South Wales. The participants left with a much better understanding of the importance of fungi to ecosystem processes and to biodiversity (November 2005)

Since the conference the Queensland Mycological Society has been formed.

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