Coolum CoastSnap
The Coolum CoastSnap location has moved to a more prominent spot at beach access 77. Please take a snap if you are walking by to help with our coastal monitoring.
BatPod
BatPod is a new choose-your-own adventure podcast series about flying fox conservation for ages 10–15! Students can listen along to try and problem-solve ways to live alongside these animals peacefully. Listen now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. BatPod is made possible thanks to funding from the Sunshine Coast Environment Levy.
Citizen science opportunities
Council is calling for your ideas to help grow its Sunshine Coast citizen science program. Citizen science is when people volunteer their time to partner with researchers to increase scientific knowledge and collect data about their natural environment.
We already have some very successful scientific partnerships underway with our community – from protecting turtles with TurtleCare, bird counting at Mary Cairncross Scenic Reserve and cleaning up our coastline with the marine debris program – we are lucky to have such an engaged community, ready to lend a hand.
Tell us your ideas via the NatureWatch survey at haveyoursay.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au before December 2.
Thank you
The importance of a reliable local community news source should never be underestimated. The ability for sporting clubs, community groups and schools to relay information and highlight their achievements and for local businesses to advertise their products and services is invaluable. My mum still has clippings of old newspapers if someone she knew ‘made the paper’. Thank you to Vanessa for keeping her finger on the pulse of Coolum and surrounds, always being interested in local issues big and small, and for asking the tough questions when needed. I wish her all the best in her future endeavours and I wish the Coolum Advertiser a long and successful run.
A reminder that I regularly share my community chat days, local events and other messages on my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/MariaSuarezDivision9.