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🌿 INTRODUCTION TO DULMUR HISTORY AND YUGGERA DJARRA - ON COUNTRY QUEENS PARK 🌿

Enjoy this introduction to Dulmur History and Yagara Djarra, at the Queens Park Ceremonial, Healing and Remembrance Place. Explore the park and broaden cultural awareness with Lynda Maybanks for an engaging cultural experience exploring the history, stories and significance of Country.

Presented by Wirrinyah Gurrnung Aboriginal Corporation.

📅 Saturday 12 September
🕤 9:30am – 10:30am and🕝 2:30pm – 3:30pm
📍 Queens Park, Ipswich
💲 $25 per person - ticket link in comments ⬇️

Visit Ipswich

Today our Nyanda junior Rangers staff and students and UQ Skills team spent time with Professor Vic Gaela from The University of Queensland learning about alternate ways to eliminate invasive wood w**ds other than using chemical spray.

Professor Vic Galea is plant pathologist and researcher at the School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, University of Queensland.

His research focus is around fungal pathogens, biological control of invasive woody w**ds (such as Parkinsonia), and soil health.

He and his team have developed targeted bioherbicide delivery methods like Di-Bak capsules to manage invasive plants in Australia.

The jarjums and staff learnt how to use these devices and technologies in the field on an invasive leuceana infestation along Lockyer Creek

Well done Mark! Nyanda staff and students love working with you!! An award well deserved!

UQ Skills Trainer, Mark Taylor, has been named the 2026 VET Trainer of the Year at the Queensland Training Awards for the Darling Downs South West region.

This recognition reflects Mark’s commitment to his students, the agricultural industry and vocational education.

We’re very proud to have Mark in our UQ Skills team, and to see him being recognised for the excellent contribution he makes.

Learn more: https://uqskills.uq.edu.au/article/2026/08/uq-skills-mark-taylor-named-2026-vet-trainer-year

Pictured: Mark (top row, third from the left) and all other winners at the 2026 Queensland Training Awards for the Darling Downs South West region.

Ouchy! 🌱 ⚠️

When our junior rangers aren’t goofing around they are also learning about propagation as part of their Cert II Conservation and Ecosystem Management and Cert II Rural Operations with uqskills

The jarjums are exposed to learnings that cover a range of different units of competency from Workplace Health and Safety to Ecological Restoration activities.

It’s such a positive and encouraging experience observing the young ones learning and laughing together on Country with their elders and community!

Nyanda’s male rangers, Marlon Cobbo, Uncle Derek Yow Yeh and Curtis Bonner have been working hard conducting w**d management on one of our Ipswich properties.

Their work is helping the native vegetation breathe without the weight of years of untreated invasive lantana.

Acknowledgement must be given to the foundational work done by Mick Landers, Kalvin Reeks and Dereece Gray earlier in the year that made access to this special site possible! 💪🏽

Our thoughts are with their team leader who couldn’t be with them today because of sorry business.

Every day, our incredible bush regeneration team is out on Country restoring native landscapes, protecting biodiversity, and creating healthier places for everyone to enjoy.

A huge thank you to our clients for trusting Nyanda to care for these special places. Your support allows us to create meaningful employment, strengthen cultural connections, and leave Country in a better condition for future generations.

Together, we’re not just restoring bushland—we’re building stronger communities and caring for Country, one project at a time. 🌿💚
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Corbin Sarra did very well earlier this week to protect a local lizard as Nyanda’s junior rangers removed invasive w**d species at UQ Gatton campus, as part of their ecological restoration works.

It just shows, that not matter the area, even if it is a w**d infested area, native fauna species have adapted to survive in less than optimal vegetation zones and that care should be taken when carrying out clearing.

Well done team! 🖤💛❤️ 🦎 🌱

Out on Country