News Archives - CAFNEC

Boomerang Bags and Drain Stencil Project Come to a Close

by | Jul 27, 2022 | Community, Community Blog, News, Plastic Free

We’re sad to announce that CAFNEC has formally discontinued the Drain Stencil Project and Boomerang Bags. Boomerang Bags and Drain Stencil Project were projects CAFNEC led to amplify the plastic pollution problem in the Cairns community. On September 1st, 2021 the...

What climate action means to me

by | Jun 20, 2022 | Community, Community Blog, Mangroves, News, Projects, Training

I started learning about climate change, or global warming as it was more commonly called, back in school. Back then, climate change felt far away, and yeah, I was sad for the polar bears, but it really felt like one of those issues that the adults and those smart...

What does it take to plan a MangroveWatch Monitoring session?

by | Jun 14, 2022 | Community, Community Blog, Mangroves, News, Projects, Training

We’ve been running monitoring sessions in Far North Queensland estuaries since 2019 and will continue to monitor between now at 2023. The data we collect gives us the opportunity to inform on-ground action plans responding to estuary-specific threats. How do we get...

Faces of our Community

by | Nov 21, 2020 | News

For one week, CAFNEC asked our community to join long-term activists, to hold vigil for the protection and recovery of our Spectacled Flying Foxes. These are the faces of our community who are against the dispersal activities being undertaken by Cairns Regional...

Read it now: Annual Report 2019/2020

by | Sep 19, 2020 | News

Read the 2019/2020 Annual Report Read the 2020 Annual Report …or read on for an excerpt from the President and Director From the President: “The last 12 months have been like no other year. Soon after our AGM in 2019, Australia was engulfed in fires of a...

Covid -19 How are things changing at CAFNEC?

by | Apr 7, 2020 | News

In light of the risks associated with Coronavirus, as of Monday 23 March, the CAFNEC office at Cominos House will be closed to the public. The management committee will be reviewing the situation fortnightly and will re-open the office if deemed appropriate. The...