Sunshine Coast Litter Collective 2010
MRWL & Readymix Healthy Waterways Award
Community/Industry partnership
AWARDS
2010
Healthy Waterways Minister's Grand Prize
Sunshine Coast Litter Collective
2010
Healthy Waterways Award - channel 7
Sunshine Coast Litter Collective
Awarded to 9 active litter collecting community groups on the Sunshine Coast
2009
Healthy Waterways Award
Airport Community Award to Mooloolah River Waterwatch & Landcare Inc. for the Caloundra Road Duplication Project.
2006
Healthy Waterways Award – Industry/Community Award went to Readymix and Mooloolah River Waterwatch & Landcare Inc. for excellence in
Community/Industry Partnerships.
2006
Jan Kesby, MRWL Coordinator was voted
“Australia Day Citizen of the Year”by Caloundra City Council for her services to the environment and the Mooloolah Community.
2005
National Waterwatch Award for QLD awarded to
Jan Kesby by Waterwatch Australia & National HeritageTrust.
2005
IQA Conference Melwire Award –for environmental excellence.
2004
National
Community Environment Award for “Services to the care and Protection of the Mooloolah
River”
to Jan Kesby from Peter Slipper MP for Fisher & Greg Hunt MP for Flinders
2004
Best Community Group Award – Sunshine Coast Environment Council
2001
Certificate of Appreciation for Coastal Work from Caloundra City Council
2000
Water Quality Initiative Froggy Award – Sunshine Coast Environment Council
MRWL was responsible for stopping the bulldozers from running over a population of the endangered wallum froglet and Christmas Bells along Caloundra Road.
Previously, a year before this the roadside was burned to produce seed for propagaton.
MRWl and Main Roads worked together to move 500sq mtrs of the wallum froglet to a secure area 100 mtrs from their dwelling. A large machine was brought in which moved 1 x 1mtr sections, half a metre deep so the frogs and the plants could all be moved together. The area has now been fenced from the road and is doing extremely well.
The Christmas Bells were translocated to the Mooloolah Native Nursery whilst holding up the bulldozers who were desperate to make up time and clear everything. Christmas bells are loved by the older community of Caloundra - they remember fields of them just before Christmas each year. Sadly, the burning regime does not happen now and the Christmas Bells are dying out.
Look on our fact sheet page for Christmas Bells.
Our Landcare Nursery is home to over 100,000 native trees, 98% being endemic to the Sunshine Coast Region. See our plant list on the nursery page.
Open Mon-Thursday 8am - 4pm
www.mooloolahwaterwatchandlandcare .com
www.mrwl.org.au