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🌿 Choose Your Council

Every SEQ Council is different.

Some allow verge gardens, some have free native tree programs, some encourage street tree requests and some have excellent community nurseries.

Choose your council to discover:

✅ Street tree policies

✅ Verge garden guidelines

✅ Native plant programs

✅ Free tree giveaways

✅ Local native nurseries

✅ Biodiversity-friendly landscapers

✅ Local wildlife and habitat priorities

✅ Citizen science opportunities "Helping you work with your local council to create more habitat for wildlife."

🌿 Bundaberg Regional Council

🌿 Fraser Coast Regional Council

🌿 Gympie Regional Council

🌿 South Burnett Regional Council

🌿 North Burnett Regional Council

🌿 Noosa Shire Council

🌿 Sunshine Coast Council

🌿 City of Moreton Bay

🌿 Brisbane City Council

🌿 Redland City Council

🌿 Ipswich City Council

🌿 Somerset Regional Council

🌿 Lockyer Valley Regional Council

🌿 Scenic Rim Regional Council

🌿 Logan City Council

🌿 City of Gold Coast

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Ten Easy Things to do!

BACKYARD CHECKLIST!

1. Plant local native plants! These are the plants that evolved here with local fauna.

2. Provide flowering and fruiting native plants. A variety of plants = a variety of animals.

3. Limit lawn and, where possible, remove exotic plants.

4. Provide clean water.

5. Provide habitats - logs, rocks, hollows, mulch.

6. Embrace some mess. Nature is not neat nor should all of your yard be....

7. Grow some food and some native food.

8. Enclose pets.

9. Learn about nature and wildlife.

10. Avoid chemical use.

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Join our movement!

When you join Backyards for Biodiversity SEQ you will receive

a membership card which will allow you to select two free native plants [tubestock] from participating nurseries.
a colourful sign for your fence that acts as a conversation starter with your community
your once-off membership fee helps us spread the word through brochures and posters, our website and blog posts, and social media.

SHARE your progress. We love to share stories about new gardens and verges, successful frog ponds and nest boxes, insect inventories and photographs of backyard creatures.