Reef Walk 2013 is a community project initiated by 72 year old June Norman. This year June, along with a group of committed people, will walk the 1,170km from Cairns to Gladstone to highlight threats to the reef. Please join us for a special breakfast to welcome the walkers to Cairns and send them on …
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April 2013 The Newman Government is proposing amendments to the Vegetation Management Act 1999 that will mean: Clearing applications could now be made for ‘additional relevant purposes’ of high value agricultural clearing and irrigated high value agricultural clearing. This would mean that north Queensland would be exposed to extensive clearing for agricultural purposes, with adverse …
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28 March 2013 Council yesterday voted to apply for a damage mitigation permit to relocate the bat colonies near the Cairns City Library. Council voted against such a motion in October 2012, presumably due to the prohibitive cost of the relocation. According to the October Council report, such a relocation would cost at least $80,000 …
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By Anna McGuire, CAFNEC Coordinator CAFNEC, the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace Australia Pacific held a forum on this issue in February 2013. This forum featured Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute and Louise Mattheisson from Greenpeace. The Great Barrier Reef that we all know and love is at risk. Coal companies are planning to …
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By Brynn Mathews The proposed Wongai coal mine on the shores of Princess Charlotte Bay on Cape York (about 150 kilometres northwest of Cooktown), presents a series of conflicting issues for environmental activists. The proposed mine is located on freehold Aboriginal land owned by the Kalpowar Land Trust, the Traditional Owners for this country, …
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By Anna McGuire, CAFNEC Coordinator When talking about places we love, we can’t go past the Daintree. With some of the oldest surviving tracts of rainforest on the planet, and high diversity of plant and animal species, it really is a special place and one that’s well worth looking after. There are still many pressures …
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By Mindi Tonak, Sustainability & Climate Change Campaigner, CAFNEC This is a very exciting time for the Think Outside the Bag campaign as it is gaining a great deal of momentum. It is moving to see the amount of positive feedback we’ve been receiving from businesses and the public alike. Recently, The Cairns Post …
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By Rob Williams, Machans Beach I do a lot of breathing, so my love goes to my local oxygen factory, the mangrove forest of Ellie Point. Situated over the Barron River to the southeast, the weird and wild marine wetland generates tons of oxygen during photosynthesis which the southeasterly breeze kindly delivers to my home …
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By Andrew Picone Northern Australia Program Officer, Australian Conservation Foundation We all have places we love and I love the Cape. This huge north-jutting peninsula, once a land bridge to New Guinea, has many unique and wonderful attributes that make it a place like no other. My own journey with the region began in …
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By Russell Constable In December 2012, Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke approved the Ella Bay Resort Development near Innisfail. Over 1,000 local people contacted Minister Burke urging him to reject this inappropriate development on various grounds, including that it would put endangered species and communities at risk. For more information visit www.cafnec.org.au. There was little …
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