Energise
Energising the community
Kathleen McArthur’s capacity to lead, organise and stand for what she believed in inspired others to care for the natural environment and advocate for its preservation.
Her ability to change attitudes was of fundamental importance to the future of the Sunshine Coast’s natural environment, and nothing was too daunting for Kathleen in her conservation efforts. The community responded with conviction, becoming willing volunteers in hands-on help at a native plant nursery and wildflower shows, and in planting foreshore trees. As well they actively lobbied governments to protect wildflowers, wallum, waterways and dunes.
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Stories in this part
Growing and showing
During the early 1960s a WPSQ native plant nursery at Kathleen McArthur’s Caloundra home filled a need for…
Campaigning
Cooloola, the Pumicestone Passage, our beaches, and volunteering.
Cooloola
From the 1960s into the 1970s the battle to preserve Cooloola as a national park was waged by WPSQ and other…
The Pumicestone Passage
The campaign to protect the Pumicestone Passage, a complex marine habitat and Ramsar wetland with tidal…
Beach protection
The sloping sands and adapted vegetation of coastal dunes are natural buffers between land and the force of…
Past and future
Disappearing species, vanishing habitat and what remains.
Disappearing species
The Christmas Bell, Blandfordia grandiflora , and the Ground Parrot, Pezoporus wallicus , are just two…
Vanishing habitat
As early as 1963 Kathleen McArthur wrote about vanishing habitat. Her article ‘Vanishing dunes’ appeared in…
Currimundi Park
Currimundi Conservation Park on the northern side of Currimundi Lake was the only substantial piece of wallum…
When the mind opens
‘Open your mind and the flowers will bloom,’ was advice Kathleen McArthur often gave, and this message is…