Nandroya Falls – Photo credit: James Berry

The Wet Tropics Management Authority (WTMA) is currently reviewing the Wet Tropics Management Plan (WTMP) 1998. 

The Plan regulates activities within the Wet Tropics area which may have an impact on its World Heritage values and integrity. These activities are primarily those which may affect its ecosystems, vegetation, soils, waterways and scenic values.

If individuals or groups would prefer to have a Wet Tropics Management Plan review brochure sent out, please email CAFNEC President, Denis Walls, as soon as possible.

There are two ways to participate in the current round of consultation.

Photo Credit: James Berry

A: Contribute to the conservation sector submission to be prepared by CAFNEC

B: Make a submission directly to WTMA

There are real strengths in working together to develop a joint sector response. By uniting our voices we can send a clear message about our concerns and aspirations for the long-term conservation of the Wet Tropics World Heritage rainforests.

Nevertheless, CAFNEC encourages those interested in conservation to make an individual submission to WTMA as well.

A. Contribute to the Conservation Sector Submission

The Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) is assisting WTMA with its community consultation and will be preparing a submission on behalf of the conservation sector.

CAFNEC is, therefore, seeking input into the conservation sector submission from local conservation groups and community members with an interest in conservation.

There are a number of ways local groups and community members can contribute to the conservation sector submission:

Step 1 – Quick Poll

Fill out this quick poll prior to 31 May 2017 to help us identify the key areas of interest/concern to the conservation sector.

Step 2 – Consultation Workshop

This will be the major opportunity for attendees to hear from WTMA, ask direct questions and form a better understanding of the impact of the proposed changes. This event will also include a short workshop to identify the concerns and gaps arising from the proposed changes as well as identify proposed changes that are supported by the conservation sector.

The discussions and comments arising from the workshop will be used to inform and prepare the conservation sector submission. 

LOCATION: JCU City Campus – Collaborative Learning Centre, 36 Shields Street, Cairns.

DATE: Saturday, 3 June 2017

TIME: 9am – 12noon

Step 3 – Have Your Say

Following the consultation workshop, we will be seeking and considering written contributions in developing the Conservation Sector Submission.

To make this easier we will release a survey following the event so look out for the email in early June.

Alternatively, you can send an email to CAFNEC President Denis Walls or send a written letter to:
Cairns and Far North Environment Centre
PO Box 323N
North Cairns Q 4870

For written contributions to be considered in the conservation sector submission they must be received no later than 5pm on Wednesday 14 June 2017. This is necessary to allow CAFNEC time to synthesize all views and comments prior to the WTMA formal consultation closing date of 30 June 2017.

B. Make a Submission Directly to WTMA

In addition to contributing to the conservation sector submission, we are encouraging groups and individuals to make their own submission directly to WTMA before formal consultation closes on 30 June 2017.

Ways you can do this online include:

Alternatively you can send a letter to:
Wet Tropics Management Authority
PO Box 2050
Cairns Q 4870

One last thing… Help us spread the word!

Please feel free to forward this information to any contacts that may not be aware of the review process.

You can also spread the word on social media by joining and sharing the Facebook event.

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The discussions and comments arising from the workshop will be used to inform and prepare the conservation sector submission. 

DATE: Saturday, 3 June 2017

TIME: 9am – 12noon

LOCATION: JCU City Campus – Collaborative Learning Centre, 36 Shields Street, Cairns (view map).

If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please register via the form below by 31 May 2017.

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If you are unable to attend but would still like to contribute you can:

1. Take the poll to provide CAFNEC with an initial indication of your key areas of interest
2. Look out for the survey in the week following the event. Not on the CAFNEC mailing list? Join today.
3. Email CAFNEC President, Denis Walls.

If you are unable to attend but would like to find out more information you can:

1. Contact WTMA to talk to a planner for queries relating to the proposed changes
2. Email CAFNEC President, Denis Walls for queries relating to the conservation sector submission.

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Without urgent action a horror story will unfold in and around this unique World Heritage Area.

Yellow crazy ants have breached the boundary of the 

Wet Tropics World Heritage Area

– internationally recognised as the world’s second most irreplaceable natural World Heritage site –

Queenslanders, tell your elected members you want support for the eradication of yellow crazy ant in the Wet Tropics!

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Nature lovers are today welcoming the upgrading of 12 areas of State forest to National Park, most of which are in Far North Queensland.

The announcement came with a commitment from Environment and National Parks Minister Dr Steven Miles to upgrade overall Queensland protected area coverage from 8% to 17%, including “re-committing to transferring forests of high conservation value to protected areas such as national parks”.

Josh Coates CAFNEC Director said:

“New areas under National Park protection is definitely good news. These additions are in some cases quite small areas but are none the less significant. This is a clear signal that we are dealing with a Government that, just like our broader community, places real value on National Park tenure. National Park status represents a higher level of protection than other tenures such as State forest.

It is great to hear our Environment Minister really backing the message that our National Parks provide invaluable economic, social, cultural and health benefits for Queensland and Australia.

With the large spike in land clearing that has occurred in Queensland as a result of changes to the land clearing laws under the former Newman Government it is refreshing to hear some good news. We look forward to quick action from the Government on implementing the election promise to reinstate land clearing laws.”

National Park Upgrades announced:

• Bulburin East Forest Reserve, 1,695 ha in size, located near Bundaberg and now part of Bulburin National Park
• Cardwell Forest Reserve, 45 ha in size, located near Cardwell and now part of Girringun National Park
•        Danbulla Forest Reserve, 17 ha in size, located near Cairns and now part of Danbulla National Park
• Part of Danbulla South Forest Reserve, 614 ha in size, located near Atherton and now part of Danbulla National Park
• Part of Danbulla South Forest Reserve 2, 468 ha in size, located near Atherton and now part of Danbulla National Park
• Part of Danbulla West Forest Reserve, 2,136 ha in size, located near Atherton and now part of Danbulla National Park
• Part of Dryander Forest Reserve, 1,355 ha in size, located near Proserpine and now part of Dryander National Park
• Part of Kelvin Forest Reserve, 2,413 ha in size, located near Mackay and now part of Kelvin National Park
• Part of Kuranda Forest Reserve, 1 ha in size, located near Cairns and now part of Kuranda National Park
• Part of Kuranda West Forest Reserve, 306 ha in size, located near Cairns and now part of Kuranda National Park
• Palmerston Forest Reserve, 0.4 ha in size, located near Atherton and now part of Wooroonooran National Park
• Trinity Forest Reserve, 2,243 ha in size, located near Cairns and now part of the Grey Peaks National Park.

Media contact: Josh Coates, Director, (07) 4032 1586, 0438 805 284, director@nullcafnec.org.au

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Today a cruise ship dredging smokescreen, tomorrow an industrial mega-port?

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Developers are pushing for 4.4 million m3 of dirty dredging in Trinity Inlet, to allow the largest giant cruise ships, cargo tankers, and warships into our harbour / into the heart of Cairns.
The dredge spoil would likely be dumped on the environment reserve and restored wetlands at East Trinity and then, in an annual battle against nature to keep the channel open, they’d dredge and dump around an additional 100,000 m3 into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park to maintain the channel. The economics just don’t stack up, the project would cost taxpayers around $440 million, and benefit only a handful of businesses.

Offshore dumping of dredge spoil in the GBR Marine Park 2014 – expanding the Cairns channel would significantly increase the amount of maintenance dredging and dumping required annually. © Josh Coates/CAFNEC/WWF

But it doesn’t stop there!
The same vested interests are now calling for Cairns to be made into a priority industrial port. This would allow unlimited capital dredging for port expansion in the future and risks turning Cairns into an industrial mega-port like Gladstone.

The case for priority port status does not add up, Cairns is not and never should be a large bulk commodity port. Our commitment to UNESCO to prevent new dredging in ports like Cairns was crucial in preventing recent ‘at risk’ listing for the reef. If we break our promise we open the door to at risk listing and would send the wrong message to potential tourism visitors. This would have negative impacts on the economy.

Nobody wants to hold back the economic future of Cairns, but new dredging threatens to do just that and is not necessary for our industries such as tourism, sugar export and defence to continue.

Use the easy tool at the bottom of this page to send an email to your local MP’s

Other things you can do:

1. Click here to sign the Parliamentary petition saying that you want a sustainable future for Cairns, not an industrial mega-port.
2. Share the parliamentary petition with your friends please use this link: http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-assembly/petitions/e-petition?PetNum=2441
3. Own or run a local business? Sign the local business open letter on dredging

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CAFNEC Director Josh Coates said:

“This recommendation is that the Government ‘consider’ priority port listing for Cairns taking in to account environmental impacts, economic factors, UNESCO recommendations and the Government’s Reef 2050 plan. Of course the Government will do that and we are confident that the economic and environmental case for this will not stack up any more now than it did when the Government ruled out funding new dredging in Cairns on environmental and economic grounds in April.

“Industrialising Cairns Port is not the way forward for economic prosperity.  In fact the opposite is true, listing Cairns as an industrial Priority port like Gladstone or Abbot Point will send the wrong message to potential tourist visitors and could have negative impacts on the economy.

“This recommendation to list Cairns as an Industrial priority port flies in the face of Government election promises, UNESCO concerns and the big picture of reef protection.

“The Ports Bill is part of the Australian commitment to UNESCO to limit new dredging alongside the reef. To derail the bill with an amendment adding potential new dredging in Cairns will raise the alarm bells and could lead to a revisiting of the ‘at risk’ listing for the Reef that was recently narrowly averted.

“The purpose of priority port declaration is to allow development of major bulk commodity industrial ports – the nature and scale of Cairns Port is different to the industrialised ports of Gladstone, Abbot Point, Townsville and Hay Point. Cairns Port is a small multi-purpose regional port for bulk and general cargo, cruise shipping, fishing fleet and reef passenger ferries.

“We urge those who may be thinking Priority Port status for Cairns sounds good to consider whether we really want to become an industrial port and risk the lifestyle we love and the tourist industry that supports Cairns and the far North?”

Breaking news – CAFNEC welcomes comments following the release of the parliamentary report made by Anthony Lyham, Minister for State Development, stating that Cairns will not be made a ‘priority port’ under the government’s Ports Bill.

Media contact / interviews:  Josh Coates, CAFNEC Director, (07) 4032 1586,  director [at] cafnec.org.au

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The proposed Wongai coal mine on Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape York has failed to progress its applications with the Queensland government and is no longer listed as a coordinated project under the control of the Department of State Development.  The company has also not submitted a substantial EIS requested by the Federal Department of the Environment in December 2011 to progress the necessary approvals for activities in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.  CAFNEC hopes that this is an indication that this poorly conceived project is about to be abandoned due to its potentially high environmental impact and poor financial viability.

The Wongai coal mine is proposed on Indigenous land in an environmentally sensitive region 150 kilometres north-west of Cooktown, wedged between wetlands bordering Princess Charlotte Bay and the Cape Melville National Park. The current proposal includes an underground coal mine, 15-kilometre conveyor, coastal coal stockpiles a barge-loading terminal on Bathurst Head and last, but definitely not least, offshore transhipment of coal from barges to larger ships in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon adjacent to the Flinders Island group.  Not only are all these activities proposed in a currently pristine portion of the Great Barrier Reef, but they also threaten the wetlands, coral reefs, sea grass beds and dugong and turtle habitat of Princess Charlotte Bay.

Josh Coates, CAFNEC Director said:

Dugong feeding on seagrass. Photo: Julien Willem

“We have serious concerns about this project from an environmental perspective.  We see coal mining, new ports and transhipping as an unsustainable direction for development on the Cape. We need to be looking at development opportunities that do not put our wetlands, dugongs, turtles, sea grass beds and coral reefs at risk.

The new ALP Queensland Government made a number of pre-election commitments, and more recent commitments to the World Heritage Committee, to implement a range of initiatives to protect the Great Barrier Reef.  These initiatives included a ban on transhipping in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon and no new ports, both of which are elements of the Wongai proposal.

Whilst there is a clear need for increased economic opportunities for Indigenous people on the Cape, we don’t see coal mining as a viable or sustainable way to go. Support for Indigenous ranger programs, better environmental management initiatives and support for tourism and other industry that does not harm the environment are the way forward.

We welcome the fact that the Queensland Government has chosen not to renew coordinated project status for this project and we hope that this is indicative of a renewed focus on more sustainable economic opportunities on the Cape. We don‘t want to see the ecological health of the Princess Charlotte Bay/Bathurst Head/Flinders Islands region declining like that of the southern reef.”

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Opinion: John Gleu, CAFNEC member and Friends Of The Earth Kuranda President

Tony Abbott and Leichhardt M.P Warren Entsch revealed their vision for Northern Australia for the next 15 years in their new newly released Northern Australia White Paper. The White Paper predicts that by then north Australia will have a population of 6 million and that the region will have new dams, new mines, new gas fields as well as becoming a food bowl for Asia supplied from new mega farms.

The bulldozing that has just begun of 32,000 hectares (320 sq km) of open forest at Olive Vale on Cape York, one of the last intact and most diverse natural places on Earth, using a pair of huge D11 bulldozers linked by a long chain, is part of this plan for what the Govt. says is ‘sustainable development and innovative new crops for the north’.

Hancock Pine Plantations, Black Mountain Rd, Kuranda.

In the case of Olive Vale the crop is to be forage sorghum for cattle feed and in other areas it will be crops like sugar cane, stock fed and bio-mass. This clearing was approved recently in the dying days of the last Queensland LNP government and was made possible by weakened legislation designed to reduce red tape. The impact this clearing will have on wildlife would previously have meant the project was referred to the commonwealth under species protection laws, but it wasn’t.

Fortunately the bulldozing has been temporarily stopped at Olive Vale by the urging of Queensland Deputy Premier Jackie Trad, after 2500 hectares have been cleared, while the project is assessed under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. The reasons given are that Olive Vale is home to several rare, endangered and vulnerable species and because forage sorghum for cattle feed doesn’t qualify as being an innovative new crop. Also another problem with these new planned mega farms for Cape York is the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Great Barrier Reef and Cape York’s river systems may be severely damaged by the added sediment, nutrient and chemical, runoff that will be produced.

The recently released Queensland Auditor-General’s Report on the Great Barrier Reef says ‘efforts to repair Reef water quality are unlikely to be successful’ even after multimillion-dollar programs aimed at the preventing the World Heritage Committee listing the Great Barrier Reef as being ‘in danger’. The report also found ‘the grazing and cane industries voluntary and self-assessed schemes – introduced by the previous government to replace regulation – were not achieving changes needed to improve water quality’ and the government’s ‘water quality information lacked transparency and was misleading’.

Overall the Auditor-General’s report finds the current efforts to cut coral-killing run-off from land degradation and over-development have been largely ineffective. This conclusion means that the Govt has been trying to hide from the World Heritage Committee that the Great Barrier Reef really is ‘in danger’ – possibly to try and avoid the bad publicity that this would bring to Australia. This is confirmed by the latest studies showing that the Reef has lost half its coral cover in the last 30 years.

In another blow to the Govt’s plans for mega developments in the north The Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University have released an initial study that not surprisingly found suspended sediment in turbid water damages fish gills, makes it hard for them to breathe and increases the rate of diseases in fish.

Another serious threat to the Reef is the tens of thousands of hectares of Timber Reserves along the North Queensland coast that were recently sold under a 99 year lease by the Bligh government to Hancock Queensland Plantations, managed by Hancock Timber Resource Group, the largest timber plantation company in the world, based in Boston USA,

Hancock Pine Plantations, Black Mountain Rd, Kuranda

These pine plantations are using helicopters to spray a mixture of glyphosate, fluroxypyr and various other chemicals at high quantities to kill weeds or regrowth of the native vegetation. Fluroxypyr is listed on the label as being highly toxic to freshwater fish and aquatic invertebrates and glyphosate has just been reclassified by the World Health Organisation a month ago as ‘probably carcinogenic to humans’

The reclassification of glyphosate by the WHO is of great concern to the hundreds of towns and communities that are close to agricultural areas such as Kuranda – where the chemical runoff from their pine plantations goes into the Barron River, which is used as the town’s water supply. Spray drift from aerial spraying is also seen as a problem with the close proximity of homes and Kuranda town centre, being just a few kilometres away.  The nature corridors that have been left inside the pine plantation along creeks and streams for the wildlife such as cassowaries are totally inadequate considering the aerial spraying.

The selling of this plantation licence to Hancock Plantations without proper consultation was clearly ill advised as the government is now having to spend millions of dollars to try to implement ways to reduce the sediment and chemical runoff that is produced from this type of intensive agriculture that threatens waterways and the Reef. It is clearly time for an end to industrial pine plantations adjacent to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area which changes diverse native forests into single species plantations – and especially if the wood is to be only used for woodchips.

A new study published in the journal Science Advances found we are currently witnessing the start of a mass extinction event the likes of which have not been seen on Earth for at least 65 million years. The research was designed to determine how human actions over the past 500 years have affected the extinction rates of vertebrates: mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians.

The fact that Australia is ranked as one of the worst countries in the world for species loss is another reason why the new Queensland government needs to quickly restore strong tree clearing controls as it promised to do and especially as land clearing has tripled in Queensland over the last three years with the approval of at least 1130 sq km of bushland for clearance and the removal of protection for another 7750 sq km of remnant native vegetation.

It is obvious that the government is trying to avoid facing the facts that it is not possible to have a healthy World Heritage Reef, coastal fisheries and tourism industry and at the same time have intensive chemical agriculture, mass land clearing, and mega mining developments in Reef catchments. The government is clearly in denial if they think that they can have both and they need to be honest about their intentions if they are secretly prepared to sacrifice the Great Barrier Reef to achieve their new vision for the intensive development of north Queensland.

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Concern over Queensland’s devastating land clearing rates has been resonating throughout the state since changes to the Vegetation Management Act made by the LNP Newman Government led to new approvals for clearing in Cape York and elsewhere– some in the very last days of the LNP administration.

Before the election win in February this year, the now Palaszczuk government committed to re-tightening the legislation around land clearing, and returning Queensland to the forefront of vegetation preservation. In the three months since, there is rising concern that they have done little more than reassure landowners that they are in no rush to change the legislation.

In 2013 a group of 26 senior scientists expressed their deep concern over proposed amendments to the Vegetation Management Act by Newman’s LNP Government in order to allow for intensive agriculture. They argued that returning to the antiquated practices of mass-scale clearing would result in loss of biodiversity, worsening erosion, salinity and water quality as well as a significant contribution to carbon emissions. They reminded the LNP government that was stricter regulations on land clearing that allowed Australia to meet the Kyoto Protocol.

Their pleas were unheard by the Newman government that swiftly enacted the Vegetation Framework Amendment Act 2013 and consequently stirred a movement of industrial scale land clearing across regional Queensland. It permitted the clearing of high value regrowth on indigenous and freehold land.

Although the actual data of vegetation clearing is not yet publicly available, disturbing figures were leaked showing 275, 000 hectares of native vegetation had been cleared in the last financial year, nearly triple the rates of 2010.

Areas around Cape York and gulf country are of particular concern, with a permit granted by the LNP government to clear 32,000 hectares on a single property. Olive Vale is believed to be of World Heritage value and is home to at least 17 threatened species. Furthermore, broad-scale clearing of the property for “high value agriculture” or grazing, will threaten to increase runoff and pollution into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. The presence of these threats to both threatened species and the Great Barrier Reef required action on the part of the Federal Government. As a result, the Environment Minister Greg Hunt initiated an urgent review of the case, claiming that the permit was issued without his knowledge.

Despite the Palaszczuk government’s willingness to jump on the bandwagon and condemn the Olive Vale case, there has been little indication of their upholding their pre-election commitment to roll back the 2013 amendments.  Although conservation groups are actively lobbying for the promised changes, this may also have the undesired effect of causing a further spike in land clearing.  Data indicates that when a tightening of regulations has been foreshadowed in the past, agriculturalists tend to panic and subsequently take to their vegetation with great enthusiasm and urgency. In order to prevent this imminent vegetation apocalypse, changes to the legislation must be made swiftly, and the data made publically available.

Article by CAFNEC volunteer Cosima Fauldi published 11/06/2015

Take action:

• Contact the Premier and call for vegetation protection laws to be reinstated immediately.
• Contact Federal Environment Minister Hunt and call on him to put a halt to Olive Vale clearing using the EPBC Act to protect species of national significance.

Read More:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jun/05/queensland-government-calls-on-greg-hunt-to-stop-cape-york-land-clearing

http://theconversation.com/land-clearing-in-queensland-triples-after-policy-ping-pong-38279

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-21/alp-reignites-landclearing-debate/6032484

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/environmental-lobby-puts-pressure-on-palaszczuk/6462352

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/may/05/queensland-bushland-being-destroyed-on-industrial-scale-says-green-group

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Auditor General Report confirms that there is a long way to go before reef is out of danger

Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) is today drawing attention to a report by the Queensland Auditor-General ‘Managing water quality in Great Barrier Reef catchments” tabled in Parliament today.

The report questions the effectiveness of Australian efforts to date to address water quality issues and implies that public statements by Minister Greg Hunt and representations to UNESCO regarding reef ‘in danger’ listing may have been misleading.

The report states that ”The water quality and land management improvement targets set in the 2013 Reef Plan are unlikely to be achieved under the current level of practice change. Yet this outcome is not as evident as it should be, because of what is publicly reported and how it is reported.”

In particular CAFNEC is drawing attention to the need to look after the relatively healthy Far North Queensland parts of the reef and to address land clearing and other practices emerging in the North that could see the mistakes made further South repeated up here.

The report also notes that “The recent relaxation of land clearing rules also increases the risk of adverse consequences from sedimentation run-off, and could work against the achievement of Reef Plan water quality targets.”

Full report: https://www.qao.qld.gov.au/files/file/Reports%20and%20publications/Reports%20to%20Parliament%202014-15/RtP20GreatBarrierReef.pdf

CAFNEC Director Josh Coates said:

“Nobody wants to see our Great Barrier Reef in danger, what this report tells us is that we need more investment from our Government in addressing the problem and less focus on spin designed to make people think that the problems have already been addressed.”

“Minister Hunt and others who are telling us that everything is fine are misrepresenting the facts and this report clearly confirms this.”

“The recent UNESCO decision to defer ‘in danger’ listing for the reef cannot be a cause for complacency, when the Government reports back in 18 months we cannot afford to see ‘in danger’ listing back on the agenda.”

“While we see activities like extensive land clearing at Olive Vale and elsewhere on the cape we would be kidding ourselves to think we are on track to achieve water quality improvement targets.”

“We are calling on the Federal government to immediately put a stop to this land clearing using the EPBC Act, and on the State government to reinstate land clearing regulations relaxed under the former Queensland Government, as they promised to do prior to the election.”

Media contact: Josh Coates, Director, (07) 4032 1586, director [at] cafnec.org.au

Disturbing footage of Olive vale clearing:

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