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Collaborative Fire Workshop at Dilli Village
A three-day fire workshop was held in April by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) and the Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation (BAC) at Dilli Village. The workshop included field visits to several post-burn and unburnt sites with representatives from a cross-section of K’gari stakeholders including the BAC, UniSC, QPWS, QFES, FIDO, FINIA and K’gari residents.
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Polar Bear vs Wongari – similarities in conservation risk management
The K’gari NRM wongari management team were approached by animal behaviouralist expert Nikita Ovsyanikov and his daughter Katya to meet the team and discuss non-lethal risk mitigation and animal behaviour in the human/wildlife interface.
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Adaptive Management for Wongari Conservation and Safety
Recent media attention highlighted the wongari breeding season and high-risk wongari-human interactions in the Waddy Point and Eli Creek visitor areas on K’gari.
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How does K’gari’s tourism impact local people and communities?
UQ PhD research student Hieu Nguyen Thi is investigating the relationships between tourism impacts and community quality of life in nature-based tourism destinations.
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FINIA Field Trip 2023
May 4th and 5th were the dates of this year’s FINIA annual tour of K’gari. Each year FINIA aims to have one two-day meeting on K’gari. FINIA is a community-based partnership dedicated to the protection of the K’gari World Heritage Area’s natural integrity and ecological assets to help ensure that all stakeholders are successfully cooperating in caring for K’gari.
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K’gari Weed Spotters: Watch Out For Alligator Weed
Native to South America, alligator weed Alternanthera philoxeroides is a perennial plant that grows on land in damp soil or water as dense floating mats.
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Coral Creeper Not Wanted on K’gari
It’s not difficult to understand why the coral creeper (Barleria repens), a native of Africa, became a popular garden plant in this country.
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Cooloola Bioblitz 2022 Wrap Up
The latest Cooloola Bioblitz took place in November 2022, so how did it go?
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Wongari Rescued from Crab Pot
Rangers on K’gari (Fraser Island) are accustomed to hearing the wongari (dingo) howl, so when they heard the recent cries from a juvenile, they knew it was in trouble.
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