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Fraser Island Native Planting Guide
This handy planting guide has been developed to assist landholders and land managers on Fraser Island in selecting local native plant species for use in gardens and landscaping.
The Last Easter Cassia – a children’s story by John Sinclair
Despite being the very best mates, Jacob Jones and Herbert Hancock were fiercely competitive. These two ten-year-olds challenged each other to see who could get the best marks in every subject at school, and who was the best athlete, who scored the most runs in cricket or who had the best computer game score. Life was an endless competition between these two friends. The competition was good for both of them because they were so evenly matched in both scholastic and sporting ability and the competition helped both of them improve their achievements. (more…)
2014 Conservation Calendar Competition
CVA are very excited to be kicking off a brand new photo competition this month. Over the next month we will be asking you to get out around Australia and take photos that celebrate and represent “Conservation in Australia”, to be in the running.
Join the search for Australia’s finest feral photos!
The Invasive Animals CRC (IA CRC) are once again searching for your photographs of pest or ‘feral’ animals. They are looking for photos showing pest animals living in the wild, the damage caused by pest animals, and also photos that demonstrate the various methods that are available for pest monitoring and humane control. (more…)
Shorebird Monitoring
Dorothy Pashniak
Shorebird monitoring can be both fascinating and frustrating. The fascination happens during summer when there are thousands of birds to watch, photograph, and count. By the end of summer I usually have a list of questions that will take a while for which to find answers – and then the birds are gone on their northern migration. This is the start of the period of frustration.
Tick Alert!
Bree Jashin, Vice President FIA, FINIA Representative FIA
Over the last two years with the damp/deluge conditions from La Niña, South East Queensland has seen the explosion in the prevalence of ticks and tick bites causing domestic animal deaths and potentially causing harm to humans.
Weed Profile – Easter cassia
Flowering Easter cassia
Easter cassia, Senna pendula var. glabrata, is native to South America. The shrubs are easy to spot this time of year as they are in flower. This weed is not classified under the Land Protection (Pest and Stock Route Management) Act 2002, however it is classified as an environmental weed by the Fraser Coast Regional Council. (more…)
Better Beaches Training
Better Beaches participants February 2012
All FINIA members that participated in the “Better Beaches” 4WD training agreed that they took something away from the day. For Sue Sargent – the concept of allowing the engine and not momentum to get you in and out of a situation was a take home message. “Dave reminded us that if you speed into a problem, you’ll end up getting bogged. If you drive in – you can always reverse out – simple, but brilliant!” Sue added.
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Better Beaches Training
Photo: Alana Kippers
This project builds on a previous initiative conducted by the Burnett Mary Regional Group and CQ University in 2007-8 to develop a Code of Practice for 4WDs on foreshores (primarily to protect turtles and shorebirds).
The Code was a highly successful engagement tool developed by regional 4WD clubs and non-club 4wders. The activity also empowered the participants with a new function, that of stewardship for the natural resources that they enjoy in this popular pastime. (more…)
About K’gari
Sunset near Waddy Point
K’gari (formerly known as Fraser Island) is an island located along the southern coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Brisbane. Its length is about 120 kilometres (75 mi) and its width is approximately 24 kilometres. It was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1992. The island is considered to be the largest sand island in the world at 1840 km² It is also Queensland’s largest island, Australia’s sixth largest island and the largest island on the East Coast of Australia.
The island has rainforests, eucalyptus woodland, mangrove forests, wallum and peat swamps, sand dunes and coastal heaths. It is made up of sand that has been accumulating for approximately 750,000 years on volcanic bedrock that provides a natural catchment for the sediment, which is carried on a strong offshore current northwards along the coast. Unlike many sand dunes, plant life is abundant due to the naturally occurring mycorrhizal fungi present in the sand, which release nutrients in a form that can be absorbed by the plants. K’gari is home to a small number of mammal species, as well as a diverse range of birds, reptiles and amphibians, including the occasional saltwater crocodile. The island is part of the Fraser Coast Region and a part of the Great Sandy National Park.
Source: Wikipedia
Click to visit the UNESCO World Heritage site and read the statement of Outstanding Universal Values which lead to Fraser Island being inscribed on the World Heritage register.
Image: ‘Sunset near Waddy Point’ by Andrew Sinclair
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