History & Achievements

Read about Queanbeyan Landcare's history. About its major projects – how those places you use and value came to be, and the hundreds of people and the work behind them. We have undertaken over 35 environmental rehabilitation projects since our beginnings - activities of removing rubbish, planting, fencing, weeding, providing for recreational access, and maintaining sites over time.

A history of Trees for Queanbeyan established 1990 and Monaro Conservation Society formed 1988 and their vital roles in some of the project sites that Queanbeyan Landcare now tend to.

This 0.59-hectare park is located at 2–8 Ford Street, Queanbeyan. The Peace Garden and the trees planted by the citizens of Queanbeyan commemorate the 1986 International Year of Peace.

Queanbeyan Landcare has been working at various sites along the Queanbeyan River since the 1990’s, in partnership with other organisations. In 2025 work is happening at six sites, the Riverside Cemetery site (off Erin Street), the Outdoor Classroom (off Thorpe Avenue), Buttles Creek, Fairlane Fauna and Flora Reserve, Eastbank and Upstream of Dane Street.

What is now designated as Bicentennial Park is a valued part of the city’s scenic backdrop, well-used by walkers and families every day, a refuge for wildlife, and a site that displays native plant species. But it wasn’t always like that. Helen Hadobas with the help of Queanbeyan Landcare members were instrumental in rehabilitating this site over many years.

A detailed history of the surveys conducted at Fairlane Flora and Fauna Reserve for the Pink-tailed Legless Lizard (Aprasia parapulchella) from 1993 to present day.

‘Connectivity conservation’ - Over many years Trees for Queanbeyan and the Monaro Conservation Society and later Queanbeyan Landcare have worked with partners to retain or create continuous native vegetation areas stretching across West Queanbeyan towards Mount Jerrabomberra, through many small plantings and reserves.

Visually prominent, ecologically valuable and well used for recreation, Mt Jerrabomberra literally towers over Queanbeyan and was a turning point in the recent history of land management and nature conservation in the district.

Identified as site 16 on the map shown above this small bushland area was donated by Jack Firth, a past employee of Queanbeyan City Council. The park is a rehabilitated grassy box woodland dominated by Eucalyptus polyanthemos (Red Box).

Residents of Fernleigh Park and Landcare groups have transformed an area of degraded bushland that became available for rural residential development in the 1990’s into a well vegetated corridor for wildlife.

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