Clean Up Australia Day Done for 2015!

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Tegan Lather

Another early morning ( I really HATE early mornings – but HATE getting sunburnt more!) a lots of bags of rubbish collected from the Dog Beach at Woorim through to the dog Beach at Red Beach!

Well done. We meet up with more people collecting rubbish from B.I.E.P.A as well as many other groups picking up the litter that kills our wildlife and marine animals.

It was like they dolphins were saying thanks as they stayed with us the whole time we picked up rubbish from the beach. A big pod of dolphins. So nice to see.

Thank you Clean Up Australia Day for another great turn out. It was awesome seeing so many groups on Bribie. All up we had 10 spots cleaning up! How awesome was that!

Our group was organised by Roberta. Roberta and her family were nice enough to provide everyone with cold drinks and a sausage sizzle after a couple of hours in the hot sun. Great Day. Thanks guys.

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Don’t forget Clean Up Australia Day!

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Kathy Lather

Clean Up Australia Day is finally here!

Yep it is Clean Up Australia Day and Wildlife Emergency & ZOO RUN volunteers will be heading over to Woorim Dog Beach to clean it up!

Please join us. You wont be able to miss my family as we will be wearing our Hawaiian Shirts. We will be “Bribie Gone Wild” with collecting as much rubbish as we can.

If you cant make it to Bribie, please just go and join in your nearest group. You can check out the Clean Up Australia Day page and put in your postcode and find a clean up site near you.

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Melanoma March @Bribie Island A Great Way to Start the Day!

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Tegan Lather

The first ever Melanoma March Bribie Island commenced from the Volunteer Marine Rescue at Bribie and walk north to Sunset Park before returning to the start location. was early this morning. It was a lovely coastal walk that was easy and great for people to show support for love ones that they have lost or are going through treatment now.

My lovely friend Joy Leishman was the very dedicated volunteer who hosted the 2015 Melanoma March Bribie Island for the first time. Joy and her family have been directly impacted by melanoma and are hoping to raise funds and awareness to help change the outcome and quality of life of people living with this disease. The local committee and the team at Melanoma Institute Australia encourage everyone to join in on the march to one day find a cure!

We were even lucky enough to have the Federal Member, Mr Wyatt Roy come and cut the ribbon to official start the very first Melanoma March for Bribie Island

It was a great morning with Local Community Radio 101.5FM there as well as Taste E Art Mobile Coffee Van – donating a gold coin for every cup of coffee sold (yes I have booked her in for the ZOO RUN! thanks Christine and Jimmy! As well as merchandise for sale and a Raffle

The lovely owner of the Coffee Club at Caboolture even donated a prize for the raffle and we were lucky enough to have Ms Howes there to draw it!

It was a great way to start of the weekend. The only way we can save more lives is through medical research, which this March raised the funds to do. Thank you Joy and all your friends that help you and family that put on a great morning. See you next year!

For more information, to register or to make a donation, visit melanomamarch.org.au

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ZOO RUN @ Bribie Island is now on Sale!

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Tegan Lather

Wow what a week! Crazy wild weather, which actually worked in my favour as I had the whole family working hard on our first ZOO RUN for the year on Bribie Island

I am so excited to be finally sharing my home with you all. I have made some wonderful friends like the ladies from groups at Parkruns Australia and Hummingbird House that I cant wait to show them my beautiful home.

The route where you will be running is where I go with my dogs for a walk. It is a great spot with beautiful views and fantastic pathways.

It is so exciting that we have already sold tickets! It is really funny is that ALL the tickets sold have been to families and people living on the Southside of Brisbane! I must really be getting the name of ZOO RUN out there.

Until next time lets go Running to save wildlife!

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ZOO RUN’s for 2015

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Tegan Lather

Wow we are really looking forward to this year! So much is happening. I have not one, or two ZOO RUN’s planned but 3!

We are working hard to get the link up for you to purchase tickets to the very first

ZOO RUN with Queensland Zoo on Bribie Island on Saturday the 30th of May 2015

We are raising funds for Wildlife Emergency to help with my dream of opening a Wildlife Education Centre right here on Bribie Island and to help Free the Bears Fund.

So please

ZOO RUN – Bribie Island with Queensland Zoo Saturday 30th of May 2015

ZOO RUN – Monarto Zoo South Australia Sunday 2nd of August 2015

ZOO RUN – Sea World Gold Coast Qld Sunday 11th of October 2015

I have also been talking to Marine Magic Coffs Harbour. They really need a wildlife hospital in Coffs and have asked for a ZOO RUN either late this year or early 2016.

In talks with many other amazing zoos and charities to see where we can help

So what is a ZOO RUN? Well if you haven’t been to one you wouldn’t know how much fun we really do have. So please check out our last ZOO RUN to help raise funds for Currumbin Wildlife Hospital.

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What a FANTASTIC Beach Clean Up!

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Tegan Lather

Turtle Cartoon Thanks to our amazing friends at Bribie Island Boat Charters we had a very different and exciting Bribie Beach Clean Up!

Robyn and Brendon contacted me late last night to offer us a free boat to help us clean up the rubbish not only on the Beach but on the water as well!

We might have only been a small team today, but boy did we have FUN! We even had some wonderful new volunteers Kylie, Rosie and Tom, all the way from Glasshouse! It always amazes me how many wonderful people I get to connect with over the internet and Facebook. I even had a reporter visit me on the same day from Up Beat Down Stream Magazine!

We collected over 25 kilos of rubbish! There was only 9 of us all up, so I think we did a great job.

Huge Thank you once again for everyone coming along. Always nice to meet new people and as it was hot, Wildlife Emergency even shouted everyone a cold can of soft drink so at the end of the hour we could sit down and have a chat.

2015 is going to be a fantastic year with our very own ZOO RUN and Bribie Gone Wild Wildlife Festival happening here on the island. The funds raised from these events will go towards a Wildlife Education Centre on Bribie and to Queensland Zoo’s charity of FREE THE BEARS. Helping to save the beautiful Sun Bears.

Stay tuned it is going to be a AWESOME year!

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Wow 2015 is going to be an AWESOME year!

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Kathy Lather

Wow 2015 is going to be an AWESOME year!

Ideas and opportunities are coming to me so fast that my head is in a spin! So I thought this is what I should be writing about this year. This year I am under the pump. I have just stared year 11 and of course it is meant to be the hardest year in high school. After just one day back, I now believe this to be true. I have already been given home work!

The classes all sound exciting and I have decided to take business to help me make my events bigger and better. I am sure I am onto a winner of an idea.

So why am I so excited about 2015. Well I will be able to apply for my Learners this year when I hit 16. Watch out everyone on the road! Mum has already said she is NOT allowing me to drive her car (she thinks I would scare her to death….no respect!) and Dad keeps going on and on about how I have to learn how to drive a manual.

As a typical teenager, I don’t really listen to what they are saying. I just want to drive and if that means I have to learn in Dad’s car I am fine with that! Rides to and from school for me. I also am happy to learn to drive a manual as it was pointed out to me that I will need a manual 4WD to go and continue the wildlife surveys on Bribie Island. This too sounds pretty cool.

Opps have gotten off the track a bit here. The two other MAJOR reasons I am SO excited about 2015 is check this out!

“Bribie Gone Wild” – Wildlife Festival

and

A huge thanks to my good friends at Queensland Zoo for bringing the “ZOO 2 U” and becoming sponsors of these two events. We couldn’t have a ZOO RUN without a ZOO! I am also very proud to let everyone know when they come to these events

100% of the profits will be donated to conservation!

A percentage will go to Queensland Zoo chosen Charity. Free the Bears Fund

The rest of the funds will go towards my dream!

A Wildlife Education Centre on Bribie Island!

I want to show off my amazing home to everyone and anyone that is like me and would like to learn about our marine animals, wildlife, reptiles, amazing birds and beautiful bush.

Did I mention that Bribie also has a koala! Kangaroos, possums, bats, frogs, snakes, lizards and of course you cant forget about our most famous one of all

Eric the Emu!

So please join me on my first event for 2015.

Saturday the 30th of May and register now for the

ZOO RUN and then come in and discover all my wildlife friends and their amazing varieties of animals, birds and reptiles that you can get up close and personal with.

Wow all that exciting news! So much I had better get back to my homework. I will leave it there and continue next week. I have a lot to do and a lot of people to meet and ask them to come on board and help out with this fantastic fun day.

Chat soon.

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I love the sound of the rain!

Posted on January 28, 2015 by Tegan Lather

I love the sound of the rain. It wouldn’t be the start of a school year without the rain. It was very nice that it held off until all the Australia Day events could be held.

I was lying in bed this morning having a cuddle with my cat (don’t worry she is a house cat – well fed and expects food on demand) thinking now who would like this weather.

Not the mums driving all the kids to school. Not the dads all on the way to work I like to listen to the rain when I have a lazy day planned inside, but I don’t particularly enjoy getting wet.

But then I started to think about the ducks, frogs, all the wildlife that really need the rain. Queensland is still in a drought and it has been so hot. So I think it is a good thing. Just like these guys do. There are 3 species of frog that are found all over Bribie Island and a another variety of frog called The Scarlet Sided Pobblebonk

These little guys breed in tannin-stained waters of pH 3.5 and less- waters toxic to most other amphibian species. Now aren’t we lucky!

My favourite though is the green frog that is always heard singing in our drain pipes when the rain starts to fall. A large number of little green frogs come and sit on our windows and you get to watch them. Mum says a green frog in the garden means you have a healthy environment.

So think of the frogs today as you are getting a bit wet and remember how much the flora and fauna need the rain

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MBRC Australia Day Award – Environmental Achievement Award goes to Tegan Lather

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Tegan Lather

Oh my gosh! I was blown away when I learnt that my maths teacher Miss Hickey had nominated me for the Moreton Bay Regional Council Australia Day Awards. Not just one, but two! Young Citizen Award and the Environmental Achievement Award.

I did not expect to be coming home with any, but so excited to share with you that I have in fact won the Environmental Achievement Award for 2015

In 2014 I had won the Young Citizen Award, so I was not expecting this at all!

I was up against a amazing lady, Mrs Diane Oxenford. A lovely lady that lives on Bribie Island and gives up her time to help our sea turtles, as well as other wildlife and marine animals. Mrs Oxenford can be found each and every day riding the beaches in search of turtle tracks. Ready to record the nests and movement of our endangered sea turtles.

Photo of Diane Oxenford Courier Mail

Mrs Oxenford has always been amazing and made sure to give me time to stop and chat and find out about my next adventures or dreams in regards to our beautiful animals. I feel honoured to be nominated beside you and your amazing drive and compassion for our wildlife and environment.

It was a wonderful night. Not only did I win a category, but so did my friend Lakeisha Patterson (Lucky) for Sportsperson of the Year and a past student of St Columbans College Ms Hannah Granger who won Young Citizen of the Year with her tireless work for the Leukaemia Foundation

Thank you Moreton Bay Council for putting on the Australia Day Awards. It is a amazing night. A night were you feel appreciated for all the hard work and long hours you do for your passion.

Of course none of this would have been possible without the amazing support I get from my parents, family and friends. To all the runners that come to the ZOO RUN’s, the Car Rallies, or just buys a sausage at my sizzles. Thank you. To all my Facebook and Twitter Friends. Thanks for all the likes and shares. This award is for you as well. Together we can make a difference. I cant wait to meet you all at my “Bribie Gone Wild” Wildlife Festival and ZOO RUN right here on Bribie Island on Saturday the 30th of May!

Goodnight 🙂

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Can you run as fast as Eric the Emu?

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Tegan Lather

Well can you? Don’t worry if you can’t, because it is all about FUN and raising funds for a Wildlife Education Centre on Bribie Island.

Bribie Island is having it very first ZOO RUN on Saturday the 30th of May 2015

How can Bribie Island have a ZOO RUN with no Zoo? Easy, with the help of my wonderful friends and major sponsors at Queensland Zoo! They have a program called “ZOO 2 U” where you can have the cute, cuddly, scaly or furry come to your business or home.

You can choose from

5km ZOO RUN
2km ZOO RUN /walk
Novelty ZOO RUN (For Families, Mobile Scooters and FUN!)

More details to follow, so keep watching here or on Facebook www.facebook.com/thezoorun www.facebook.com/wildlifeemergency for more information

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Wildlife Emergency

Clean Up Australia Day Done for 2015!

Don’t forget Clean Up Australia Day!

Clean Up Australia Day is finally here!

Melanoma March @Bribie Island A Great Way to Start the Day!

ZOO RUN @ Bribie Island is now on Sale!

Wow what a week! Crazy wild weather, which actually worked in my favour as I had the whole family working hard on our first ZOO RUN for the year on Bribie Island

ZOO RUN’s for 2015

What a FANTASTIC Beach Clean Up!

Wow 2015 is going to be an AWESOME year!

I love the sound of the rain!

MBRC Australia Day Award – Environmental Achievement Award goes to Tegan Lather

Can you run as fast as Eric the Emu?

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