Queensland

The Brisbane Botanic Gardens are located 7 km from the Brisbane CBD at the foot of Brisbane's tallest mountain, Mount Coot-tha.

The riverside City Botanic Gardens are Brisbane's original botanic gardens.

Monitor species selected by GCRBG Friends. There is potential to reach outside the gates and engage a wider community with other species commonly grown on the Gold Coast, but not held in the Gardens Plant Collection.

Keep an eye out for Friends Guided Walks on this ClimateWatch trail.

JCU Cairns is situated adjacent to two World Heritage Areas - the Wet Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef. The campus is surrounded on three sides by rainforest-covered mountains and located near the northern beaches in the suburb of Smithfield.

We have worked together with James Cook University, Townsville campus to create this ClimateWatch trail.

The campus is surrounded on three sides by rainforest-covered mountains and located near the northern beaches in the suburb of Smithfield. It is an urban wildlife refuge in Townsville.

The Currimundi Lake ‘Loop the Lake’ walk traverses three habitat types providing ample opportunities to observe a diversity of species including ClimateWatch indicator species. The entire 4 km loop starts on the banks of Lake Currimundi leading to a beautiful open beach and looping back into unique coastal bushland. This is a circular route however you can choose to walk it in sections (north or south). The trail can be accessed from a number of entry points and involves crossing over on the beach – so be prepared to get your feet wet!

Doonan Creek Environmental Reserve is comprised of 334 hectares of diverse coastal floodplain habitat including seven different vegetation communities. The 3.12km ClimateWatch trail traverses through revegetated bushland into the centre of the environmental reserve and back again. Several tree planting events have been hosted at the site throughout the years, demonstrating the process of revegetating an area through citizen science next to old remnant forest and swampland.

The Kawana Forest Nature Trail leads you through the southern portion of Kawana Forest Bushland Reserve located to the west of Kawana Way in Meridan Plains. This trail is about 2 km long and can take up to an hour to walk the loop – depending on how many species you encounter!

The trail runs along the Maroochy Wetlands Boardwalk in Bli Bli. The timber and composite fibre boardwalk makes it easy and more accessible to explore this environmental haven at the edge of the Maroochy River.

TERN’s Australian SuperSite Network have launched a ClimateWatch trail at Tinaroo Environmental Education Centre (TEEC) - a state government-run centre in far-north Queensland with a 25 year history of providing education on land care, outdoor pursuits and sustainability.