Lloyd Henry Bird interviewed by Gregg Borschmann in the People's forest oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2979493
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Bird, Lloyd Henry, 1929-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 176 min.)
- Series:
- People's forest oral history project.
- Summary:
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Bird, a coal miner and amateur botanist, speaks of having left school at 15 years of age to work in the local coal mines at Ipswich where he worked for the next 44 years; his passion: the fragmented remnants of dry rainforests or vine forest scrubs located in northern New South Wales & southern Queensland; how he got to know and love the bush as a child during WW2; buying land in the 1960s close to where he was born; growing rain forest plants and trees from seeds he had collected from local patches of scrubs; how throughout the years as an amateur botanist he collected and catalogued a significant number of plant specimens, samples of which were sent to the Queensland Herbarium, the Botanical Gardens of Canberra and Melbourne.
Bird speaks of the replacement of underground mining by open cut mining in the region at that time as an environmental disaster; how he added his experience and knowledge to the growing community efforts to get state and local governments to set aside nominated areas as conservation reserves. There was some measure of success. Also the local Council set aside more than 10% of land for conservation along major creek lines of Opossum, Woogaroo and Mountain Creeks; teaming up with two botanists in 1980 to compile lists of dry rain forest plants, as these were the most neglected species and were disappearing fast. A grant from the World Wide Fund for Nature funded the field work and research; his work on the botanical survey work, replanting and regeneration of Woogaroo Scrub (a famous piece of rainforest) half way between Brisbane and Ipswich.
- Notes:
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- No transcript available.
- Recorded on 11 December 1994 in Bandamba, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Borschmann, Gregg (Gregg John), 1955-, interviewer
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