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It's easy to play your part in the health of Dry Tropics waterways.

Love our local waters?

Get amongst it!

Make positive change, meet great people, connect with science smarts, and sometimes score a free snag at the volunteer and enviro science gigs on offer from our partner organisations. Click links below for details, registrations, and instructions. Event information may be updated on partner platforms — check details on their websites.

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TIDY Up Townsville offer a $100 draw every month for litter-collectors to 'Bag a Bag' of litter and post on their Facebook page.

Become a Reef Check Surveyor. Learn how to collect reef health surveys and join citizen science survey teams to report on the health of local reefs. 

Join our partner, Reef Ecologic, as a citizen scientist and upload your plant or animal sightings to iNaturalist, a global database of observations.

Volunteer Calendar

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.


Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

ReefClean Secret Beach South Townsville Monitoring Clean-up  - delivered by Tangaroa Blue Foundation.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Creekwatch at Bohle Wetland - run by OzFish Unlimited, in partnership with Townsville City Council.

Goondaloo Creek Community Working with - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Creekwatch at Rollingstone Creek - run by OzFish Unlimited, in partnership with Townsville City Council.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Creekwatch at Alligator Creek - run by OzFish Unlimited, in partnership with Townsville City Council.

Mundy Creek Coastal Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Mundy Creek Coastal Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Creekwatch at Elliot Springs - run by OzFish Unlimited, in partnership with Townsville City Council.

Goondaloo Creek Community Working with - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

ReefClean Shelly Cove, Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park Monitoring Clean-up  - delivered by Tangaroa Blue Foundation.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Rowes Bay Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Creekwatch at Stuart Creek - run by OzFish Unlimited, in partnership with Townsville City Council.

Castle Hill Landcare Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush Garden Nursery, Rowes Bay Community Working Bee - with Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Creekwatch at Sachs Creek - run by OzFish Unlimited, in partnership with Townsville City Council.

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The Healthy Waters Partnership acknowledges the Wulgurukaba, Bindal, Nywaigi, and Manbarra people as the
Traditional Custodians of the land and sea country in which we work, and we pay our respects to their Elders, past and present.

Photography is thanks to: Phil Copp, Katie Zamykal, Cassie Bishop, Carys Morgans, Sam Gibbs, and Tourism and Events Queensland.

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