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"Biodiversity is first and foremost a local issue,
 and local governments
are the front-line guardians of natural resources"


themeda/kangaroo grassland
Endangered grassland on Clump Point overlooking Dunk Island
lowland rainforest
Garrett Corridor saved in buyback
rainforest to the shore
Critically endangered littoral rainforest at Mission Beach

Mission Beach
World Heritage Values

Mission Beach is a high biodiversity area situated between the World Heritage  Wet Tropics and the Great Barrier Reef.  It has has exceptionally high scenic values with the rainforest growing down to the sea, pristine beaches and off shore islands.

Surrounded by World Heritage the whole of the Mission Beach area has World Heritage values with all the natural vegetation mapped as essential Cassowary habitat.

There is a wide range of threats to the biodiversity and scenery of the Wet Tropics.

The Mission Beach area is particularly under threat due to inadequate  planning schemes that have allowed destruction and fragmentation of natural areas including important wildlife corridors.
Cyclone Yasi crossed the coast at Mission Beach
Category 5
Cyclone Yasi 
2 Feb 2011 

Mission Beach is a high biodiversity area
Biodiversity significance
of Mission Beach 
(
Cheneweth report 2007)

Picture
Biodiversity - a kind of washing powder?


red eyed fig bird
Check out Dave Kimble's rainforest photo catalogue






Biodiversity_State of Environment report

WTCRCMP

Development Mapping
Mission Beach
November 2008
   

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