EnviroMatters Magazine Spr-Sum 2024-25

What’s in this issue 4 Recycling top 5 Have you booked your free FLEXiSKiP?

Sustainable Ipswich 5

Biodiversity 6

5 Big love for pre-loved at Quibble Market

6 Heat stress in flying foxes

Profile 11

7 Where underwater worlds collide

8 Tips for reading your rain forecast

Kids corner 15

9 Warm welcome builds volunteer diversity

10 Enviroplan protects koala habitat We’re going on a Bioblitz

11 Family collaboration doubles riverbank restoration

Calendar 13

12 What’s On

At your library 16

14 Kids Corner

– Eye-opening world of waterbugs – How to do Halloween the sustainable way

16 At your library

CREATURE FEATURE Screeching and chattering Rainbow lorikeets ( Trichoglossus moluccanus ) are a familiar sound of summer. Unmistakable with their bright red beak and colourful plumage, they are often seen in loud and fast-moving flocks. As pets they can live up to 25 years, but in the wild their lifespan is about 10 years. In summer you may come across a Rainbow lorikeet suffering from lorikeet paralysis syndrome. It is not known what causes the disease. In 2023 more than 3,000 lorikeets with the disease were cared for by the RSPCA wildlife team. If you find a sick or paralysed lorikeet it is important to call RSPCA’s hotline 1300 264 625.