Park of the Month is a key initiative of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) and NPAQ’s Parks Connect program. We’re passionate about parks, and by sharing decades of knowledge from committed volunteers, conservationists and National Park Rangers with local communities and visitors, we hope Queenslanders from all walks of life will fall in love with our amazing wild places.
SEPTEMBER 2025 PARK OF THE MONTH
DAISY HILL CONSERVATION PARK
For tens of thousands of years, the Turrbal and Yuggera peoples have been the Traditional Owners of the lands on which Daisy Hill Conservation Park sits, caring for its open eucalypt forests and cultural sites for spiritual, educational and ecological purposes. The park is a significant refuge for endangered koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) and at least 1423 other recorded native species, including the tusked frog (Adelotus brevis), greater glider (Petaurioides volans), and vulnerable glossy black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami).
Learn more about Daisy Hill CP.
Sign up for our FREE Daisy Hill BioBlitz for your chance to win!
Calling all citizen scientists and keen nature photographers! Showcase the flora, fauna and fungi of Daisy Hill CP with our September Park of the Month BioBlitz. Visit at any time during the month to photograph what you see and upload it to iNaturalist (it’s free to join) to add to our project page HERE. List your images as free to use with a Creative Commons license (CCO, CCBY, or CCNC) and you’ll also have the chance to win a $20 online gift card and have your image featured in NPAQ’s Protected magazine. Get snapping, citizen scientists! We can’t wait to see what you find.
Come along and enjoy the fun from 8:45 am on Saturday 13 September at Daisy Hill Conservation Park.
Bookings are open on Eventbrite HERE.
AGES 7+ Take a pause, breathe deeply and reconnect with the earth. Join Sameer Punde from Work Eco for a morning of mindfulness, gentle stretching and hands-on nature restoration at Daisy Hill Conservation Park. Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this activity.
AGES 7+ Do you know the names of the birds that live right here in your own backyard? Come for a stroll with Birdlife Southern Queensland‘s Sheena Gillman and Neil Humphries to find out more about our feathered friends in Logan and their conservation needs. Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this walk.
AGES 13+ PARENTAL SUPERVISION REQUIRED. Join Professor Rod Fensham for a 1-hour guided walk through Daisy Hill Conservation Park to learn how to identify the 37 gum tree species that dominate Brisbane’s bushlands, and to try to spot koalas. With the help of Rod’s acclaimed ACE Guide to Eucalypts, you’ll be a gum tree guru in no time. Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this walk.
ALL AGES. Fire is an essential part of National Park management, especially in Queensland’s tall dry eucalypt forests. Tag along with Ranger Mitch to check out all the “cool tools” (and a few hot ones too!) in a QPWS Ranger’s fire truck. Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this activity.
AGES 13+ Join natural history author and former Wildlife Australia, Steve Parish Publishing and Australian Geographic books editor Karin Cox for a foray into the world of nature writing. Karin will provide a brief history of the genre and introduce you to literary tools to enhance your writing. Tune into the rhythms of the bush to translate the Daisy Hill environment into creative poetry or prose.Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this activity.
AGES 13–18. Our Roaming Cadet Rangers (13–18) will take a short walk to look for the signs, scats and traces of these often hard-to-spot marsupials. Follow along with dedicated koala keepers and Rangers to learn how the Daisy Hill Koala Centre team are helping these fluffy-faced native Aussies survive. Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this activity.
AGES 8–12. This month, our supervised Roaming Junior Rangers (aged 8–12) will accompany the Daisy Hill Koala Centre team and Rangers to learn all about the iconic and endangered koala. They’ll meet some of the centre’s favourite marsupials, figure out how many leaves a koala consumes in a day, and engage in a host of other fun activities. Limited places. Ticket required. Please book a Park of the Month Entry ticket AND a spot on this activity.
ALL AGES. PARENTAL SUPERVISION REQUIRED.
We’re seeking experts and enthusiasts from eNGOS, conservation organisations, wellbeing and outdoor adventure organisations, and more to lead small groups on walks, talks or activities at our Park of the Month events. If that sounds like you, please express your interest by completing the form HERE.
COULD THIS BE YOU?
We’re seeking experts and enthusiasts from eNGOS, conservation organisations, wellbeing and outdoor adventure organisations, and more to lead small groups on walks, talks or activities at our Park of the Month events. If that sounds like you, please express your interest by completing the form HERE
Please Save the Date for upcoming Park of the Month events!
Parks Connect is proudly supported through funding from the Queensland Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
