Parks Connect is proudly supported through funding from the Queensland Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
Come with us to explore the wild, windswept reaches of one of South East Queensland’s special sand islands this September.
Discover. Connect. Protect. Enjoy
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.
PARK OF THE MONTH
Bribie Island National Park
Beautiful Bribie Island National Park is a wilderness of sand dunes, heath, paperbark wetlands, open forests, woodlands, freshwater creeks and lagoons just 65 km north of Brisbane.
The National Park covers about one-third of Bribie Island and protects ecosystems now largely lost on the mainland, especially the remarkable wallum heathlands and swamplands, which burst with vivid wildflower blooms in spring!
First Nations cultural heritage, including shell middens and sites evidencing thousands of years of Traditional custodianship, are found throughout the island and safeguarded within the National Park.
The tidal wetlands and waters of Bribie Island and Pumicestone Passage are protected within Moreton Bay Marine Park, a nursery for fish and crustaceans and a sanctuary for endangered dugong, which feed on seagrass here. The northern section is also part of the Moreton Bay Ramsar site. Sandbars there are vital roosting and feeding sites for resident and migratory shorebirds, and marine turtles nest on the ocean beaches.
Join our Bioblitz
Click here to go to iNaturalist and find out how to join this fun citizen science project.
Images, left to right: short-beaked echidna, Wirestock/CanvaNFP; tiny wattle © Richard Dimon/iNaturalist; mangrove gerygone, Neil Bowman/CanvaNFP; blue tiger, Kylie O’Sullivan/Unsplash.
Check out the line-up for Saturday 19 September, with activities taking place in the Bribie Island Community Arts Centre precinct, off Sunderland Drive.
SAVE THE DATE of Saturday 31 October for the following Park of the Month!
In October, we’ll be heading to Bunya Mountains National Park.
