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Sandy Cape Lighthouse
Erosion caused by recent severe low Oswald at Sandy Cape lighthouse gate.
Don & Lesley Bradley – Sandy Cape Lighthouse Conservation Association
Monitoring roads sediment depositions
These monitoring sites currently allow only photo monitoring and measuring the depth of sand accumulated at the base of the posts
John Sinclair – Fraser Island Defenders Organisation
FIDO initiated another monitoring project in November to assess the volume and impact of sediment movement resulting from road movement on Fraser Island. This project that has
been undertaken with support of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has so far established 10 monitoring sites.
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FINIA Monitoring Project
Boorangoora Site 1 is unobtrusively placed and can capture a significant section of the beach
John Sinclair – FIDO
In late November 2012 FIDO installed several monitoring posts on the island. Four large photo monitoring posts have been set up at Lake McKenzie (Boorangoora) to enable visual monitoring of the beach and its use as well as the state of the beach over the years.
CVA Nature Wise, Scat Collection
Alana Kippers, QPWS
Jane, a CVA volunteer, collecting dingo scats on Fraser Island’s Eastern Beach (Photo by Jono Bateman)
The scat collection study is continuing after the first batch of scats (172) have been independently analysed.
The Conservation Volunteers, Nature Wise program commenced their second program on Fraser Island on May 15. The program had four participants, with Jono Bateman as the program leader. NRM QPWS rangers John, Gordon and Linda assisted the group in the collection of the scats and provided vital information on Fraser Island dingoes and the scat study.
Dingo Scat Collection
Dingo scat containing bone (photo: Alana Kippers)
Stage III of the dingo population study started in September with QPWS staff collecting dingo scats. The first formal collection was conducted from 21 – 24 November 2011 with the Conservation Volunteers Australia Nature Wise Program. (more…)
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