The Landcare Group was created in response to this threat. We worked as a community and also raised money to pay contractors to eliminate these vines. It was a fantastic result and the momentum has continued right up to the present day. The result is that Austinville is one of the most weed free catchments on the Gold Coast.
The community concentrated on Staghorn Park for 10 years. It is now a beautiful natural place that hosts our annual Anzac Day community cricket match.
For the last 4 years we have been working at the more remote Cox’s reserve. It is also rapidly transforming from degraded creek line into beautiful forest area.
The use of grants to fund contractors has also been maintained and in 2016 we started a massive project that starting restoring the critically endangered lowland rainforest along the creek from Cox’s south to the Springbrook Cliffs, a distance of 7 kilometres! This rainforest has a host of rare and endangered species as illustrated by this collage of photos