 | Dear Mr Brennan I have noticed flagging tape through the Cowley dune last weekend south of the boat ramp, presumably marking the proposed new road route? I understand all permits have not yet been obtained to undertake the works and would like to ask why the work to date was ever performed, given that there is presumably a possibility that permits might not be granted to allow the work to continue? |
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Award winning documentary team in town
 The ongoing unresolved situation with shorebird nesting areas at Cowley Beach and Coquette Point can be compared with the solutions found to identical problems by the Mogareeka community in NSW. Check out the inspiring video Russell has found below. Here is Russell's latest update on nesting sites at Cowley Beach  It's hard to keep up with all the fires that are burning in regard to the threats to our natural environment. We live in a area recognised internationally as special and yet even with knowledge of the adverse impacts by day to day activities of the general public, there is a slow response and very little will by the governments to enact existing, or introduce relevant laws to help protect the remaining natural areas and the wildlife that rely on them. Thanks to people like Russell Constable and Yvonne Cunningham who dedicate a huge amount of their spare time observing their local environments and taking action to raise awareness in the hope of making postive changes. This often results in a negative or agressive reponse from those who feel it is their right to continue with practices even when they are made aware of damage they may be causing.  Here is a follow up letter from Russell Constable about the situation at Cowley Beach...... Dear Mark, Bill, Paul and CEO (CCRC) Firstly l would like to thank Mark Cacicchiolo (DERM) for getting onto Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service who have installed a warning sign at the beach and I thank you as well for your response Mark. I still have received no response from CCRC.  Each week The Tully Times features an article by Anne Wilkinson for the Wildlife Preservation Society (Tully Branch) called WILDWATCH A wonderfully informative view of the Cassowary Coast Region from Mahogany Glider country. My friend Russell Constable is a tireless campaigner for a better deal for the environment where he sees a need for more awareness and change. Russell's blog is packed full of information about his local area. Here is a letter he wrote to DERM and CCRC representatives to express his concerns about some of the ongoing threats to wildlife at Cowley Beach..... Dear Mark, Terry and Paul  During my recent visits to the Cowley Beach Spit on 25 November 2011 (with Mr Richard Piper) and the 29 November 2011 (unaccompanied) I witnessed Endangered Little terns Sterna albifrons exhibiting nesting/breeding behaviour on this spit. As you should no doubt be aware, this dune spit at the mouth of Liverpool Creek currently presents optimal nesting/foraging habitat for this species as it has a large area with a clear view of approaching predators and a significant amount of camouflaging timber and wrack. Managing a website can be time consuming and I seem to have very little of it spare lately. Yvonne's weekly diary updates from Coquette Point are an invaluable record of a wide range of topics so rather than miss any I have posted the last five weeks. Enjoy the catch up.......... Liz  Hi all, The humidity ramped up to 96% this week and although the temp is still in the low 30’s it feels much hotter. Good rain in the hinterland has sent a flush down all the rivers and the Tully had a flood warning on Tuesday. The first of this season’s king-tides occurred on Friday. The tides went from .15m at 2am Friday to a 3.16 at 9am. A good ‘enema’ for the rivers. My Brisbane- twitcher- friend Louis arrived on Thursday so we took advantage of the .89 tide on Thursday afternoon and walked to the long beach. We heard a trail bike on the beach and were apprehensive as to the outcome. We saw bike tracks across cassowary footprints but no cassowary. Then we saw the rider, he was bogged just before the sand spit-rookery. Louis and I were debating how best to approach the lad and ask him not to ride on the spit- in as polite a way as we could. He got out of the bog and took off in the opposite direction only to get bogged again. With that he gave up and left. One of us said “ I hope he got salt in his bike and it rusts”. The outcome could have been tragic for the birds nesting on the spit.  Hi all, The precarious situation of the cassowary populations in the Wet Tropics was made startling real this week. Following the incidence with the pig-hunters and their dogs last week the cassowaries did not show up for two days. On Monday morning the sub adults ‘Don’ & ‘Q’ were at the Western feed station at 6am. ‘Jessie’ arrived at the Eastern station about 7am. At 7.30am I was photographing a pair of Nutmeg pigeons in the big fig tree on the front lawn. The male was stroking the neck of the female with his beak, she however was not interested. (Male is on the left). |
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