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Fraser Coast Local Law Review
Under the Local Government Act 2009, local government is authorised to make and enforce any local law “that is necessary or convenient for the good rule and local government of its area.”
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Hot off the press: Six Lessons from K’gari
Recently published in the Australian Zoologist is the paper: Best-practice in dingo management – six lessons from K’gari (Fraser Island) by Linda Behrendorff.
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FINIA is all about Helping Hands
Late last year, FINIA joined the University of Queensland’s Cane Toad Challenge (CTC).
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Early Colonisers After Fire
A small group of FIDO members visited K’gari in mid-January to see the impact of the fire.
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Keeping K’gari’s Dingoes (Wongari) People-Safe!
Dingoes are one of the many icons of K’gari-Fraser Island – and one that attracts a fair amount of debate and interest. So, what are the facts about the island’s dingoes?
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Celebrating Fifty Years of Ramsar Wetlands
World Wetlands Day is celebrated every year on 2 February – the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands in the city of Ramsar (Iran) in 1971. 2021 marks an incredible fifty years since the signing of the convention.
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K’gari (Fraser Island) – the fire and the aftermath
On 14 October, campers in the Ngkala Rocks vicinity left an unextinguished campfire at their campsite in the North of the Island. A raging South Easter was blowing. The coals reignited, fanned by the wind, and the fire spread into the adjacent vegetation. That was the start of the calamity.
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Tailor Surveys: Protecting Sea Country
In August and September, Butchulla Land and Sea Rangers Myles Broome, Blayde Foley and Jodie Rainbow travelled to K’gari to assist Queensland Fisheries (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries) with their tailor fish surveys for the season on the Eastern side of K’gari.
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Genetic Health and Status of K’gari Wongari (Fraser Island Dingoes)
The conservation and management of K’gari wongari are of great interest to the broader community.
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Detecting Vulnerable Ground Parrots After Wildfires
Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service & Partnerships (QPWS&P) Natural Resource Management Rangers, and Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation Community Ranger Bobbie, recently redeployed acoustic sound recorders into the burnt and unburnt country on western K’gari, to detect the presence (or absence) of the vulnerable eastern ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus).
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