Just three months after SEQ Catchments and ENERGEX joined forces to help preserve the threatened Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, one of Australia’s largest and most spectacular native butterflies, over 300 vines have now been potted up in the first stage to restore the butterfly’s food source.

South East Queensland’s regional natural resource management organisation is sponsoring a business forum designed to stimulate debate around the issue of a sustainable population in the region.

SEQ Catchments and ENERGEX today announced a major commitment to help preserve the threatened Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, one of Australia’s largest and most spectacular native butterflies.

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NatureAssist is for rural Queensland landholders to help sustainably manage their land, conditional upon them entering into a nature refuge agreement. NatureAssist is a competitive market-based incentive scheme that gives landholders throughout rural Queensland the opportunity to tender for financial assistance to carry out on-ground management actions that will maintain or enhance their property’s conservation values.  Expressions of interest must be submitted by 16 March 2009 (5pm AEST). Landholders can express their interest by completing a simple one-page expression of interest form available at www.epa.qld.gov.au/naturerefuges or by calling the EPA Customer Service Centre on 1300 130 372.