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We need you! Be a Cane Toad Spotter
Reports of cane toads on K’gari can be used to help us improve our surveillance and control efforts, to protect the island.
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Establishing K’gari Cane Toad Watch
Introduced from Hawaii in June 1935, cane toads reached the Fraser Coast and Maryborough region in the early 1940s as they spread down the coastline from the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations release sites in North Queensland.
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Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation Receives Queensland Landcare Award for Biosecurity Leadership
Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) has won the First Nations Landcare Collaboration Award at the biennial Queensland Landcare Awards, held on Saturday 10 October. The award recognises partnerships that bring First Nations-led cultural land, sea and water management practices into broader landcare efforts, supporting sustainable and inclusive natural resource stewardship.
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Come Clean, Go Clean!
We need your help preventing invasive weeds, pests and diseases from hitching a ride when you come to K’gari keeping the island special for everyone to enjoy.
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Another Top 100 Invasive on K’gari – Singapore Daisy
The innocent-looking Singapore Daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata) is a significant threat to Queensland’s coastal and island ecosystems. Originally sold as a garden ornamental and erosion controller, this fast-growing weed outcompetes native vegetation, smothers seedlings, and reduces local biodiversity by forming dense, impenetrable mats.
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From Weeds to Art – the transformation continues
Invasive weeds are one of the major threats to the health of native ecosystems. Introduced plants can often out-compete native species when released into the environment and form extensive areas which are of little value to local insects, birds, and animals. Controlling invasive plants on the Unallocated State Lands (USL) of K’gari has taken up a great deal of FIDO’s energy and resources since their first trip in 2002.
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Working together to protect K’gari
FIDO, Butchulla Rangers and local partners join forces on weed control
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H5N1 Virus (Asian Influenza) – What can you do?
Biosecurity Queensland has confirmed that initial laboratory samples taken from a deceased petrel washed up on Moreton Island (Mulgumpin) were positive for H5N1 as Queensland became Australia’s fourth state to confirm a case of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu). The samples were later confirmed to be positive for H5N1 by the CSIRO.
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Celebrating Tokiko’s Contribution to K’gari
On 25 May 2026, Tokiko (Su) Dawson will officially be hanging up her work boots. For over two decades, the FIDO volunteer and environmentalist has coordinated FIDO’s quarterly week-long weeding, bush regeneration and monitoring program operating from Talinga (the former Sinclair family home) at Eurong.
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Cane Toad Rodeo: FIDO’s first toad busting on K’gari
Following negotiations between FIDO president, Zela Bissett and the management of Kingfisher Resort, FIDO were offered two rooms for two nights during from 20-22 March with Zela and her partner Glen Hills, and Sandra and Navin Naidoo spending two nights at Kingfisher Bay Resort working on cane toad reduction.
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