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Road trial to help cassowaries cross  roads safely

17/6/2016

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Today MBC (Mission Beach Cassowaries Inc) attended a meeting held by Transport and Main Roads (TMR), which included representatives from  Environment  Heritage Protection (EHP), Terrain NRM, Mission Beach Police, Cassowary Coast Regional Council (CCRC), Mission Beach Community Association (MBCA), C4, the Tully Vet and other  community  interest groups and individuals to give local feedback on the design of planned signage and line marking to be  placed at Carmoo.  

The on site meeting was held at the notorious cassowary road death hotspot on the Carmoo turnoff corner where the deaths of over 20  cassowaries have been recorded as they attempted to cross the road to access their essential habitat.
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Apart from some minor adjustments, all those present were pleased with the design and congratulated  TMR for responding to a community call to address the unacceptable number of cassowaries being killed on Mission Beach roads. 
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The trial will include;
  • extra signage warning drivers of approaching, and being  within a cassowary crossing zone,
  • four coloured pavement signs within the zone,  and
  • a Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) at either approach which will illuminate if drivers exceed the speed limit of 80kph.
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Road pavement sign
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New road sign
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New road sign
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Vehicle Activated Sign
Regular commuters can become complacent while driving and the VAS's have been proven to help alert drivers of the speed limit.

The signage is expected to be installed by the end of August.

Thank you to TMR and to Terrain who initiated the workshop in September 2015 which culminated in the community working closely with the state government resulting in this positive action to help cassowaries cross our roads safely.
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The tracking of 'Judith'

23/9/2014

 
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The Tracking of Judith - Photo by Vandhana
 'The tracking of Judith'   profiles a young female cassowary establishing its territory in the fragmented landscape of its essential habitat at Mission Beach. 

It was made possible by the community sharing information  which is being used to help protect the cassowary in our region. It helps identify individual cassowaries, their movement in the landscape, where they cross roads etc. 

Check out 'Judith's  story and lots of other information about the cassowaries and the identification  project. 

Thank you everyone for your contributions that make this  project possible.  More here.

Road crossing trials field trip

20/11/2013

 
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On  Friday (15 Nov) Mission Beach Cassowaries (MBC ) attended part of a Cassowary road crossing trials field trip to discuss potential solutions to reduce cassowary deaths at locations where regular road deaths have been documented.

Present were representatives of CCRC, JCU, WTMA, Terrain and MBC.

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National Parks under threat

20/10/2013

 
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Little Ramsay Bay - Hinchinbrook Island. Photo Mission Beach Charters

To the residents of the Cassowary Coast region,  tourists and all those who value Queensland's biodiversity,

Join us in opposing the Newman Government's predation of National Parks and the rush to convert priceless wildlife reserves into lifeless cash.



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Mission Beach Cassowary update

13/9/2013

 
Bingil Bay Garners Beach - Joov and Cyril
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Cyril (left) Joov (right)
'Joov' and 'Cyril'(ina) have got together as a cassowary couple this season. It is a big story because 'Cyril' is a four year old female who, it seems, has replaced a very aged bird, 'Barbara', well known to the  Bingil Bay/Garners Beach  community.
'Barbara' is one of Mrs Freda Jorrisen's birds. That means she is almost 50 years old. 

'Barbara' has been the mate of 'Joov' for the last three years and Joov, this year, as an 8 year old, has for the first time successfully raised a chick. (Larry)

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News from Coquette Point

11/11/2012

 
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Hello from Coquette Point,

On Thursday the Cassowary Coast Regional Council, CCRC, approved the reconfiguration of the Metricon marina development at 65 Coquette Point Road. This 89.26ha marina development abuts Ninds Creek, on the east and fronts the Johnstone River to the north. It is part of the old Ninds Creek Wetlands and as such the soils are acid sulphate. The site was cleared 100 years ago for agricultural and cattle farming purposes.
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News from Coquette Point

25/7/2012

 
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Female litoria jungguy
Hello from Jungguy country,

Coastal wetlands are some of the most threatened habitats on the planet. The Melaleuca leucadendren swamps of Coquette Point are included in the World Heritage Wet Tropics and extended from the mouth of the Johnstone River to the Moresby Range, an area three kilometres long by ½ kilometre wide.

This swamp is a major fish spawning habitat and consists of large deep lagoons and shallow swamps of melaleuca, pandanus and tidal mangrove: this is the Johnstone River’s ‘everglades’.

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Some random stuff about Cassowaries

10/7/2012

 
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Dr's Steve and Miriam Goosem were guest speakers at a recent C4 general meeting.  Steve presented a fascinating power point presentation about cassowaries that took us as far back as the 1670's with a Cassowary painting by Francis Barlow in the Entrance Hall at Clandon Park, Surrey. (photo left)

Steve, who is the principle scientist at Wet Tropics Management Authority, kindly sent me the presentation (with his notes) to share with you. Here is Steve's power point presentation

Dr Miriam Goosem who is the Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Science (TESS)at JCU, introduced the JCU Traffic management research report of which she is co-author.

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News from Coquette Point

10/7/2012

 
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Hello from windy and wet Coquette Point,

What a difference a week makes! From warm balmy days under cloudless skies the weather has turned into windy, wet misery. Or at least miserable for sun lovers like me.

The strong wind warning sent Martin in the ‘Sig’ running for port and he came in Monday night and is  now waiting for the wind to ease.

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News from Coquette Point

6/7/2012

 
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Hello from Coquette Point,

At long last Cassowary matriarch ‘Jessie’ has succumbed to the wooing of ‘Snout’.  For the last six weeks ‘Snout’ has been displaying and preening his feathers, vocalizing with low, low drumming  sounds while doing his best to approach ‘Jessie’. Until Monday his attentions had been rejected and  always ended with an aggressive chase.
On Monday afternoon ‘Snout’ was standing in the nursery looking at ‘Plastic Cas’ when ‘Jessie’ turned up. She looked kindly at him and after 10 minutes or so they started the courtship-walk.

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