Our Noosa Biosphere: Our shared responsibility.
It's up to all of us to Live Like You Love It, here in Noosa.
Every day, the decisions we make impact the natural systems that support us. Natural systems are resilient, but they all have natural limits. When you Live Like You Love It, people and nature can thrive.
Whether you live, work or visit the Noosa Biosphere, it’s our shared responsibility to care for—and live within—our natural limits. It’s our biosphere.
Credit: @taylor_x_ocean
What does it mean to Live Like You Love It?
Well, it’s about living within our natural limits and sharing our biosphere values.
Join Professor Ian Lowe AO as he helps to explain more.
Our UNESCO status
Living within natural limits
Sustainable development
Research and biodiversity
Discover what’s to love about the Noosa Biosphere
The Noosa Biosphere Reserve is an immersed life: where community and conservation are celebrated and carefully managed. Human activity and the natural world exist side-by-side.
Our UNESCO biosphere region is a natural living laboratory. As a community, we’re leading innovation, tackling challenges, and finding solutions for the future – for every living thing.
There’s so many ways to Live Like You Love It!
From the energy we use and how we use it, how we move about, where we source our food from, to how we treat our land. These actions create ripple effects that impact the natural limits of the systems on which we depend.
If we want the Noosa that we love today—clean air and water, healthy waterways and forests—to be in better condition in the future, we need to work together to care for them.
Love your energy and transport
Love caring for our environment
Love your waste and recycling
There’s so many ways to Live Like You Love It!
From the energy we use and how we use it, how we move about, where we source our food from, to how we treat our land. These actions create ripple effects that impact the natural limits of the systems on which we depend.
If we want the Noosa that we love today—clean air and water, healthy waterways and forests—to be in better condition in the future, we need to work together to care for them.
Love your energy and transport
Love caring for our environment
Love your waste and recycling
Visiting Noosa and want to tread lightly while you’re here?
When you visit our beautiful region, follow our lead of protecting what makes this place special and discover the best ways to holiday sustainably in Noosa.
Worlds collide inside the Noosa Biosphere Reserve
There’s more to love about Noosa than what meets the eye.
Geographic location: MacPherson-Macleay Overlap
The Noosa region is part of an area called the MacPherson-Macleay Overlap, where a diverse range of plants and animals meet. Here lies the southern limit of subtropical species, the northern limit of temperate species, and the eastern limit of many inland species. This rare meeting point nurtures what many of the locals call paradise – an area of high species richness and habitat diversity.
An Immersed Life
Here in the Noosa Biosphere Reserve, community and conservation is celebrated and carefully managed. This is a place where people, nature and knowledge coexist. Where daily life is shaped by care for place, connection to community and respect for our natural limits.
Glossy Black Cockatoo imagery credit: Spencer Hitchen
In Noosa, research and real-life converge.
To protect what we love, we must first understand it. Here in Noosa, we’re leading innovation to find solutions that address local challenges to live sustainably, and conserve our rich biodiversity.
Bull shark ecology
Understanding how our marine life use the Noosa Biosphere Reserve marine areas is critical to a thriving ecosystem and healthy human lives.
Blue Biosphere
Understanding the impact of human interaction on iconic species is critical to a sustainable co-existence.
Bluetooth koala tracking
The use of technology with solar-powered bluetooth koala ear tags and smartphone applications helps to further research for koala conservation and repopulation.
Noosa Biosphere Workshops & Talks
at the Noosa Festival of Surfing
Dive into the wonder of Noosa’s blue biosphere with our free morning sessions (16-19 March). Ease into your festival day with coffee and conversation at the Noosa Main Beach Marquee, and meet the people leading ocean conservation and research in Noosa.Â
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Discover surf culture in biospheres, immerse in children’s workshops, make your pledge to the ocean through art, and connect with the science protecting what we love.
For nearly 20 years, our UNESCO biosphere reserve status has been a sanctuary of hope.
Since 2007, the Noosa Biosphere Reserve has been a place where conservation, sustainable development and learning are at the heart. In 2027, we will seek UNESCO endorsement to continue our biosphere reserve designation for the next decade.
Together, we’re building a future we can be proud of. A future that meets the needs of today, without compromising the needs of future generations. A future that conserves our rich biodiversity. A future we’re committed to.
Because, it’s our Noosa Biosphere.
So, how can you care for what you’re a part of?
When you live like you love it, both people and nature can thrive.
Make your actions count. Live Like You Love It!
