PORTRAIT OF CORYMBIA APARRERINJA WITH RUFOUS WHISTLERS*, ARTIST: JUDITH SINNAMON © 2018; courtesy of Edwina Corlette Gallery.

SORRY, WE HAVE SOLD OUT FOR THIS YEAR. FOR 2020 CALENDAR, PLEASE TRY AGAIN IN NOVEMBER 2019. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED THIS CAMPAIGN. WE HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING YOUR CALENDAR.

Our 2019 Bimblebox Nature Refuge Calendar features 12 fabulous artworks and two great photographs inspired during the Art, Science & Nature Camps, and from the Bimblebox 153 Birds traveling exhibition. Desert Uplands biodiversity is prominent in this calendar.

The artists have offered their superb skills toward the preservation of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge to help prevent its transformation into a coal mine. Clive Palmer’s company, Waratah Coal, has for many years owned an Exploration Permit for Coal on Bimblebox. Waratah Coal now holds permits at both State and Federal levels to proceed. Effects of coal on the Black-throated Finch are graphically represented on August’s page.

Bimblebox Nature Refuge lies in the southern Galilee Basin. If the Adani Mine goes ahead, Bimblebox could be next in line. The proceeds from the calendar sales will go toward projects that help to protect Bimblebox and other Nature Refuges, plus assist with Bimblebox running expenses, which have recently become harder to meet due to drought in Central Queensland.

Pages are printed high quality paper, for best presentation of high-quality Artwork.

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^#November’s dramatically abstract artwork creatively reflects the bold banding and eyes of three Pacific Bazas (Birds in Backyards, http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Aviceda-subcristata)

ARTISTS

Thanks immensely to these Artists and Photographers who allowed us to use their Artwork. Many are associated with the Bimblebox Art Project.

ALISON CLOUSON (Artist, Bundeen, NSW), DEB MOSTERT (Artist, Ipswich), GLENDA ORR (Artist, Brisbane), JENNIFER STUERZL (Artist, near Brisbane River/Moreton Bay), JILL SAMPSON (Artist, Coordinator, Bimblebox Art Project), JUDITH SINNAMON (Artist, represented by Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane), LAURA CASTELL (Artist, Townsville), MICHAEL SCHLITZ (Artist, Tasmania), PAULA PHILLIPS (Calendar Design), REG MOMBASSA (Artist, Sydney), REW HANKS (Artist, Sydney), ROSIE LLOYD-GIBLETT (Artist, Sunshine Coast Qld) .

Calendars (up to 5 per person, for these last remaining calendars) can be ordered online using Paypal or credit card (first form) or, if you are not a fan of PayPal,  Stripe (second form), which takes credit cards . Paypal and Stripe are two of the most secure payment gateways.

The cost of shipping anywhere in Australia for one calendar we have discounted to $6. 

Up to 5 copies can be purchased as 1 parcel. Prices of calendar plus postage ae calculated from Australian Post Postage Calculator (https://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/calculate-postage-delivery-times/#/option/domestic/4560/4001). These figures are based on parcel postage from Montville to Brisbane CBD.  Postage is relatively less expensive as numbers of calendars per parcel increases. 

If you prefer Direct Credit, the Bendigo Bank Account for EFT is The Bimblebox Alliance Inc; BSB, 633-000; and Account Number, 152 699 526. Please enter BIMCAL and your last name for identification. Please email treasurer.tba3@gmail.com advising number of copies and total.

If you have any questions, please email Paola Cassoni (bimblebox@gmail.com). An optional donation can be made here.

Not a fan of PayPal? Please use the Stripe form below. A confirmation of the order will appear in place of the online form, and a receipt from The Bimblebox Alliance Inc in your email inbox.

We invite our friends to support the EDO in the new endeavor against Adani as this mine will be the catalyst for the opening of the Galilee Basin for coal mining. EDO is seeking a judicial review of the Federal Environment Minister’s decision to allow assessment of the project to proceed without applying the water trigger. 

http://frontlineaction.org/

When in 2008 we raced to beat the last of the coal rushes in Queensland, luck came our way as huge greenfield thermal coal projects like ‘China First’ grew to be less financially viable by the day and opening up the Galilee Basin turned out to be a dinosaur’s dream.

We were on the edge of a storm, which turned out to be a fizzer and now that it seems for now to have passed, well, aren’t we lucky!

As people were shocked to hear that a declared Nature Refuge could be mowed down for lumps of coal, donations of time and money came to help our cause.

But what about forests in the way of ‘extensions’ of existing mines such as Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Mine on the NSW Liverpool Plains? The storm is brewing now in Leard Forest, where clearing is about to recommence in the critically endangered White Box woodland. Once the trees are felled, the ecosystems of threatened fauna and plant species it sustains won’t come back. Hundreds were arrested trying to stop that new mine’s initial devastation. Now the battle begins anew.

Having looked carefully into the issue, the Bimblebox Alliance Inc. has decided to offer a donation in support of those who are trying to stop the Leard Forest from being cleared.

And more recently we have also donated to help the Pilliga Protectors to save the extraordinary Pilliga Forest from Santos’ planned industrial gasfield and its threat to the Great Artesian Basin. The Pilliga is the largest and most intact woodland in eastern Australia, an island in the surrounding cleared agricultural land, and an essential recharge area for the GAB. It provides a refuge for glossy-black cockatoos, barking owls, eastern pygmy possums, koalas, red-capped robins, regent honeyeaters, the unique Pilliga mouse and many other woodland fauna species, as well as 900 plant species. Twenty-five nationally listed and 48 state listed threatened species call the Pilliga home. Santos’ gasfield poses serious threats to this beautiful place. The heritage of the Indigenous Gomilaroi people is also at risk, as well as the livelihoods and futures of local farmers. The TBA has made this donation to assist in the prevention of this enormous destruction.

More information on the Pilliga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilliga_forest, https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/coal-seam-gas/santos/stop-coal-seam-gas-threats-to-the-pilliga-forest, https://www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/pilliga-forest, http://northernriversguardians.org/?page_id=5192

Read this hilarious QUILTGATE story by Russell Fairfax (botanist in residence at Bimblebox Nature Refuge) to find out more about the journey of the Quilt described below. See below for complete inline version.

Kathleen Noonan wrote a delightful, insightful, humorous article “Opinion: Quilt made to raise funds for Bimblebox Nature Refuge is getting up people’s noses” in the Opinioin Section of the Courier Mail (8 August 2015), inspiring almost 50 readers to purchase raffle tickets. The newspaper version in her ‘LAST WORD’ column is reproduced below.