News
John Sinclair Memorial Lecture 2026
Congratulations to everybody who helped put together FIDO’s successful John Sinclair Memorial Lecture on Sunday August 23 at Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens auditorium.
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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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Keep K’gari Clean – now a Registered Charity
The team behind the Keep K’gari Clean Project is celebrating a huge milestone. The project is now incorporated and officially registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC).
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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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Travelling to K’gari? Come Clean Go Clean!
As the K’gari Biosecurity Strategy moves into its implementation phase, BAC has kicked off its actions with a fun, colourful postcard encouraging vehicle drivers to ‘come clean, go clean’ to K’gari.
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Native, Exotic or ‘From Here’ – what the labels mean for a K’gari garden
Native or exotic sounds like a simple choice at the nursery counter. On K’gari and the Fraser Coast it is worth one more question: native to where?
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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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