Thursday's Cairns Post ran a story about a young Bingil Bay Cassowary that was hit by a car early in the morning Friday 22 July.
 
The bird is believed to have been very badly injured as it was struck hard by the vehicle and was seen fleeing awkwardly toward the rainforest gully.  It hasn't been seen since despite a search of the creek area by a crew of Queensland Parks and Wildlife (QPWS) rangers.  

The approximately 18 month old bird is known in the neighbourhbood as 'Bernie' and  was attempting to cross the Bingil Bay Road at a known Cassowary crossing area just north of a Council reserve at the junction of two permanent running creeks.

On Friday 15th July it was publically announced that the application to subdivide 1 lot into 15 lots on Lot 66 was withdrawn.  The final outcome of the 24.4 hectare (60 acre) block of land in the heart of Mission Beach which has been the subject of a high profile campaign, is still uncertain.

The lot was bought at Auction in 2007 at the height of an economic upturn and a development application for a 40 lot sudivision was lodged ahead of the FNQ 2031 Regional Plan. 

In the development of the new state Plan, the importance of the fully covered remnant vegetation block connecting the World Heritage area to a large coastal lowland reserve was recognised and removed from the urban footprint.