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A drone’s view of the Yarraman Creek restoration project, which begins at Emmert Street and stretches the full length of Errol Munt Park to the Yarraman Bowls Club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

November 30, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Friends Of Yarraman Creek have been selected as runners-up in this year’s Queensland State Landcare Awards.<\/p>\n

The small volunteer group have been working to rehabilitate a section of Yarraman Creek running beside Errol Munt Park for several years.<\/p>\n

The area, which was formerly weed-infested, rubbish strewn and heavily polluted, has been gradually returned to its natural state and is now home to Australian native plants and animals, including platypus.<\/p>\n

The group were nominated for this year’s Fairfax Media Landcare Community Group Award.<\/p>\n

This was one of nine major awards in the competition, which attracted close to 400 nominations State-wide.<\/p>\n

And while they placed second, the group say they are very happy with the outcome.<\/p>\n

“We won a Healthy Waterways Award in 2016 and we are humbled to have run second in a state-wide competition with so many deserving projects,” secretary Susan Reilly said.<\/p>\n

“On a good day the Friends Of Yarraman Creek can put seven volunteers in the field, so this is a wonderful outcome for us.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the group won first prize for a Community Organisation Garden in this year’s Colours Of Yarraman garden competition.<\/p>\n

The Friends have also recently begun long-term aerial surveillance of their project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On November 10, drone photographer Adrian Morrison took a sequence of aerial photos along the full length of the Yarraman Creek project to provide a different view of the restoration work.<\/p>\n

The group hope Mr Morrison will now return on an annual basis to re-shoot the same terrain so they build up a long-term photographic record of the project’s progress.<\/p>\n

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