by | May 14, 2013 | Past Events
Reef Walk 2013 is a community project initiated by 72 year old June Norman. This year June, along with a group of committed people, is walkomg the 1,200 km from Cairns to Gladstone to highlight threats to the reef. The Reef Walkers left Cairns on Saturday 1st June...
by | May 13, 2013 | Past Events, Plastic Free
Local primary students from Port Douglas State School are doing their part to spread the message about the harmful effects of plastic bags on marine life as part of the Think Outside the Bag project. During the past school term, Reef Guardian students from Port...
by | May 13, 2013 | Past Events, Plastic Free
The new Port Douglas reusable bag has finally arrived and is now out in the community helping to reduce the use of plastic bags as part of our Think Outside the Bag campaign. Making its debut at the official launch to help with the campaign was the Plastic Bag...
by | Apr 26, 2013 | Past Events
This week, six brave Greenpeace volunteers climbed onto a coal tanker just outside the Great Barrier Reef and stayed there for 28 hours. They did this because Australia’s coal exports are the nation’s greatest contribution to climate change and plans are...
by | Jan 30, 2013 | Past Events
Tuesday 12th Feb 2012, 6.30pm Pullman Reef Hotel Casino, Abbott Street, Cairns A special screening of the film “Dirt Cheap – 30 Years On” and presentation by Dave Sweeney, ACF Nuclear Free Campaigner Uranium mining was imposed on the Traditional...
by | Jan 25, 2013 | Past Events
6pm, at Pullman Reef Hotel Casino, Cairns Featuring Louise Mattheisson from Greenpeace and Mark Ogge from the Australia Institute. Coal mining companies are planning up to nine new coal terminals along the Great Barrier Reef coast, meaning thousands more coal ships...