Group convenor: Marina Novak
Glenella Street Park is on the north side of Fish Creek between Glenella Street Park and Lochinvar Lane, The Gap. Formed in 2010, the group has a vision for Glenella Street Park to provide a riparian rainforest walk, right in the heart of The Gap where residents and visitors can glimpse the type of rainforest once fringing our local creeks (RE 12.3.16).
Significant trees on the site include a Rough-leaved elm Aphananthe philippinensis more than 200 years old. In 2016 Brisbane City Council upgraded the bush track that runs along Fish Creek. With assistance from Council’s Habitat Brisbane team, in 2024 and 2025, the group undertook a project to remove major weeds and replant along the whole site which is 500 metres long and 20 metres wide.
Glenella Street Park is one of the six bushcare sites which comprise The Gap Rainforest Project. See The Gap Rainforest Statement of Significance PDF.
This bushcare site is supported by the Brisbane City Council Habitat Brisbane program. Working bees are held on the third Saturday of each month at 3 pm to weed and plant the site. For more information, contact Marina Novak at marinajnovak@gmail.com or check out the groups Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/glenellabushcare.
Volunteers on the bank of Fish Creek relaxing after the last working bee of 2025.
Zone map Glenella Street Park. Courtesy: Brisbane City Council
Long-term volunteers at Glenella Street Park in 2020 L-R Libby Jones, Allen Kamp, Group Leader Marina Novak, Anna Harisson, Russell Harisson, Wayne Briscoe and Anne Jones. The group is standing in front of an area planted 10 years earlier. Photo: Mark Crocker
