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 Mariasole Bianco, Marine Campaigner, CAFNEC It’s impossible not to love the amazing species and landscapes of the Coral Sea. From thickly forested islands to small sandy cays, beautiful coral reefs and yet to be explored reef slopes and deep sea canyons; the Coral Sea contains 49 different habitats and supports over 300 threatened species. It …
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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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By David Cook, Wonga Beach As if there were not already enough well known biodiversity reasons, I now have a very personal one to return to the Daintree rainforest. For three years, prior to early 2010, I had the good fortune to work in the Daintree for the not-for-profit conservation organisation, Rainforest Rescue, as their …
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By Brynn Mathews When you’re out enjoying the country around Emu Creek and the Walsh or Palmer Rivers you can do something to both improve the environment and help increase biodiversity. The Mitchell River Watershed Management Group (MRWMG) needs your help with a control program for a particularly nasty weed.* If you had to invent …
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