Environmental group Friends of Plunkett Conservation Park is doing vital environmental work in Yarrabilba.
It is a community volunteer group focusing on restoring Plunkett Conservation Park.
The group was established in late 2025 with its official launch event held in March this year.
Plunkett Conservation Park is a eucalypt forest which spans more than 700 hectares and backs onto the southern end of Yarrabilba.
Friends of Plunkett Conservation Park is focused on doing conservation work in the park with the hopes to restore it so everyone can enjoy it.
Jack Thatcher, one of the coordinators of Friends of Plunkett Conservation Park, said the park has had a lot of disturbance in the past, including issues with logging.
“The park is a unique place for a lot of the plants that grow there,” Mr Thatcher said.
The group has monthly working bees where volunteers remove invasive species like lantana, so the park has the opportunity to regenerate.
Its next working bee is from 9am on Sunday, 14 June and will focus on removing invasive weeds.
The group also host wildlife surveys and are looking at doing more in the future.
The group’s most recent survey of glossy black cockatoos in the park did not result in spotting any, but they did find four feeding sites.
Mr Thatcher said these sites were still significant since the cockatoos were fussy eaters, and it confirms their presence in the park.
The group is also running another wildlife surveying night on the Saturday, 20 June, looking at greater gliders.
Greater gliders are an endangered species and recent sightings in nearby parklands has sparked the search for gliders in Plunkett Conservation Park.
You can find more information about upcoming events, visit Friends of Plunkett Conservation Park’s Facebook page.
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