Lismore City Council and Richmond Riverkeeper are hosting a Bioblitz event at Currie Park, North Lismore as part of the Richmond Riverfest’s Richmond Catchment Bioblitz, and we’d like to invite you to join in the fun.
We’re inviting you to help identify and record the diversity of life which calls this regenerating Lowland Subtropical Rainforest remnant home.
Date: Friday 9th October 2026
Time: 10am-1pm
Location: Currie Park reserve, 91 Winterton Parade North Lismore
Meet: In front of Lismore Turf club
Bring: Where clothes suitable for a day in the scrub, tools of the trade- binocs, hand lens, cameras, mobile device with iNaturalist app loaded & logged in, BYO lunch
Event plan:
- 10am- Welcome to Country, intro, instructions, discussion, morning tea available
- 11am- Bioblitz!
- Experts paired with iNaturalist app-savvy people & small groups of public attendees
- 1pm- sign off, shared BYO lunch
If you haven’t been involved in a bioblitz before, you may be interested in the free online webinar hosted by Richmond Riverkeeper to introduce the idea on Wednesday 30th September 7-8pm. Register at https://events.humanitix.com/richmond-catchment-bioblitz-webinar
The event will be postponed in the case of wet weather.
Richmond RiverFest and partners acknowledge and pays respects to the Elders and Custodians of Widjabal Wia-bal Country and recognises their ongoing, deep connection to the lands and waters.
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This event is presented by Lismore City Council, as a part of the Rainforest to River Project.
The ‘Rainforest to River: Restoring Lismore’s riverbanks’ project will enhance the condition, extent, and connectivity of 42 hectares of critically endangered, EPBC-listed, Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia Threatened Ecological Community. Centred on biodiversity hotspots in Lismore, the project will maximise benefits for native species and improve site resilience to major threats including flooding, weed invasion and pollution through Culturally and scientifically-informed ecological restoration.
For further information, see the current project page or contact the Environmental Strategies team on 6625 0500.
This project is funded by the Australian Government’s Natural Heritage Trust under the Urban Rivers and Catchments Program, with the support of Lismore City Council, Rous County Council, Wilsons River Landcare Group Inc, Richmond Landcare Inc, Widjabul Wia-bal Gurrumbil Aboriginal Corporation, Ngulingah Local Aboriginal Land Council, South Lismore Duckpond Landcare Inc, Lismore Lake Inc Landcare, Far North Coast Canoe Club, Richmond Riverkeeper, Big Scrub Rainforest Conservancy Inc, OzFish Unlimited, Revive Northern Rivers, North Coast Local Land Services, and Birdlife Australia: Northern NSW Chapter.
