Tablelands Talk: How grasses can destroy wildlife habitat
Thu, 09 Apr
|Malanda Hotel
This will be a fascinating talk and provide much needed information about how invasive grasses can transform our environments and what we might be able to do about the situation.
Time and location
09 Apr 2026, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm AEST
Malanda Hotel, 12-20 English St, Malanda QLD 4885, Australia
About the event
How do introduced invasive grasses destroy wildlife habitat?
This is the question that John Clarkson will be addressing at a joint TKMG and BirdLife Northern Queensland presentation on Thursday, 9 April.
Australia is truly the land of introduced plants (we now have more introduced plant species than native species, which is an astonishing fact). Many were brought here for frivolous reasons without any awareness of their potential to harms the natural environment of Australia. Some were introduced as part of a deliberate decision to try them out for gardens or for farm products or as potential grazing fodder. Others simply made there way with imported goods and then escaped, like so many other plants and animals that have created major and expensive issues for our society. One large group of invasive plants are the grasses and John Clarkson has been working on these across northern Queensland for many decades. Now retired…