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Protecting and Restoring K’gari’s Pandanus
In record time, the introduced insect responsible for Pandanus dieback, Jamella australiae, spread across the eastern shores of Fraser Island, leaving a wake of destruction.
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Panel Session: K’gari (Fraser Island) Community, Culture and Collaboration Conference 2019
The final session at the 8th Biennial K’gari (Fraser Island) Conference was a Q&A forum.
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Snake-A-LIVE!!
Working and living on K’gari offers various unique opportunities for wildlife encounters.
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Birds of a Feather Flock Together
K’gari-Fraser Island becomes the final resting place for a small number of migrating animal species from whales to birds that become stranded due to weather, limited food resources, illness or other influential reasons. This is also a natural part of the island’s nutritive cycles.
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Protecting the Turtles of Sandy Cape
Sandy Cape Lighthouse Volunteer Group is pleased to announce that their “Nest to Ocean” (N2O) project (Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science DES) is well underway.
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An Adventure of the Vocal Quartet
(more…)A children’s story from Fraser Island (K’gari)
By John Sinclair
Celebrating K’gari through pictures!
As part of Fraser Island (K’gari’s) World Heritage 25th Anniversary celebrations the Queensland Government ran a photo competition called ‘Snap Up Paradise.’ The competition resulted in over 300 incredible entries, some of which have been reproduced in a limited edition calendar for 2019, as well as being featured in the latest issue of the Wildlife Australia magazine – Australia’s leading wildlife magazine since 1963.
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Utilisation of stranded marine fauna washed ashore on K’gari (Fraser Island), Australia, by dingoes
For those of you interested in keeping up with current research, this paper was recently published in the Australian Journal of Zoology by Linda Behrendorff, Luke K.-P. Leung and Benjamin L. Allen. (more…)
The Tale of a Drunk Dingo!
We know that dingoes eat figs to supplement their diet. But what happens when they have a belly-full of fermenting fruit? Can they over-imbibe and become inebriated like the parrots? It seems they can. They might stagger around a bit, but at least they don’t fall out of trees! (more…)
Seasonal Migration… and those that stay
It’s that time again! The humpback whale annual migration is heading south and the marine turtle courting and breeding season begins – where adult courting males and nesting females return to their birthplace from areas hundreds of kilometres abroad.
While these migratory breeding cycles increase whale and turtle populations, sadly, some individuals remain and become part of the island’s food-web providing extra sustenance for terrestrial scavengers including the island’s apex predators. (more…)
