Welcome!
This is Judith and she visits C4 regularly. Come on in to the Environment Centre and you may get lucky with a cassowary sighting up close! Thanks to Helen Holland for the great photo.
Cassowary Sightings updated 29 December...check it out.
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Click here for information about the 'Lot 66 Buy Back' which HAS become reality!!
The Lot 66 Special Issue of the Bulletin for May of 2014 is now available for downloading just click here.
A link to very informative Mission Beach documents regarding projects, plants, animals and resources please go to: http://www.terrain.org.au/Projects/Plants-Animals/(resources)/view. Click here for Theaterette hire.
*What to do in Mission Beach - check out this site for some tips & visit the Home page too: http://travelpilz.com/12-great-things-in-mission-beach/
What's been happening in 2014
Painted Grasshawk - Neurothemis stigmatizans stigmatizans - male. At Lot 66
21 March 2014. A visit from the Townsville Grammar School to C4 as part of the schools International Baccalaureate program. It is a 2 year, pre-tertiary qualification offered in 150 countries, is 4000 odd schools to 1.1 million school goers around the world. In Queensland it is only offered in about 12 schools, and the only 2 of those outside Brisbane are Townsville Grammar School and Cairns State High School. For more information click here.
19 May 2014. The celebration of the acquisition of Lot 66 with guests Senator Jan McLucas, Senator and Patron of Lot 66 Ian MacDonald and former Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett who played a major part in the Lot 66 story.
15 May to 9 June 2014. THE University of Ohio was the first US of A university to visit C4 and they helped out by setting transects at Lot 66 while they were staying here at Mission Beach. Following OSU were Clemson, Florida, Texas A&M, Arizona, Penn State, Wake Forest & Richmond and finishing off the American Universities International Program were Vermont and Brockport.
13 June 2014. A group of German tour agents were treated to lectures and a walk through the C4 arboretum as part of their tour through the Wet Tropics. Tourism Tropical North Queensland Chief Executive Officer Alex de Waal said a convoy of 12 Apollo and Britz /Maui campervans carrying 20 DerTour agents set off from the Cairns Esplanade Friday, June 13.
"We have created itineraries to take these agents further out into the region to highlight the diverse landscapes and experiences of the Cassowary Coast, the Savannah Way, the Atherton Tablelands, Port Douglas and Palm Cove," he said.
15 June 2014. St. Michaels Grammar School from Melbourne visited C4 as part of their school program and were given talks about C4, the environment and cassowaries during their brief stay.
19 May 2014. The celebration of the acquisition of Lot 66 with guests Senator Jan McLucas, Senator and Patron of Lot 66 Ian MacDonald and former Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett who played a major part in the Lot 66 story.
15 May to 9 June 2014. THE University of Ohio was the first US of A university to visit C4 and they helped out by setting transects at Lot 66 while they were staying here at Mission Beach. Following OSU were Clemson, Florida, Texas A&M, Arizona, Penn State, Wake Forest & Richmond and finishing off the American Universities International Program were Vermont and Brockport.
13 June 2014. A group of German tour agents were treated to lectures and a walk through the C4 arboretum as part of their tour through the Wet Tropics. Tourism Tropical North Queensland Chief Executive Officer Alex de Waal said a convoy of 12 Apollo and Britz /Maui campervans carrying 20 DerTour agents set off from the Cairns Esplanade Friday, June 13.
"We have created itineraries to take these agents further out into the region to highlight the diverse landscapes and experiences of the Cassowary Coast, the Savannah Way, the Atherton Tablelands, Port Douglas and Palm Cove," he said.
15 June 2014. St. Michaels Grammar School from Melbourne visited C4 as part of their school program and were given talks about C4, the environment and cassowaries during their brief stay.
About C4 - Our History
View of Cassowary Coast from Bicton Hill lookout.
The constant pressure of development on Crown Land at Mission Beach, all of which is now critical cassowary habitat, was the impetus for a group of twelve locals to get together to form Mission Beach's first incorporated conservation group, the Movement for Responsible Coastal Development.
In 1990 the newly elected State Labor Government, with the assistance of several local councils and the Tully branch of Wildlife Preservation Society Queensland (WPSQ), organized a conference at Mission Beach to discuss the plight of the cassowary. The outcome of this conference was the establishment of the Consultative Committee for Cassowary Conservation (C4). C4 was a consortium of local community groups, local councils, government departments and other agencies such as CSIRO.
The two groups amalgamated and incorporated in 3 June 1994, to become the Community for Coastal and Cassowary conservation (C4). C4 originally established five working groups to achieve these aims, with representation and advice from the local indigenous people (Djiru).
In 1990 the newly elected State Labor Government, with the assistance of several local councils and the Tully branch of Wildlife Preservation Society Queensland (WPSQ), organized a conference at Mission Beach to discuss the plight of the cassowary. The outcome of this conference was the establishment of the Consultative Committee for Cassowary Conservation (C4). C4 was a consortium of local community groups, local councils, government departments and other agencies such as CSIRO.
The two groups amalgamated and incorporated in 3 June 1994, to become the Community for Coastal and Cassowary conservation (C4). C4 originally established five working groups to achieve these aims, with representation and advice from the local indigenous people (Djiru).
Our Focus And Aims
Harmony - photo by Jeff Larson
Today, C4 focuses on Habitat, Education, Nursery and Rural matters.
The aims are:
* To implement the Cassowary Management Plan, Mission Beach environs;
* To promote and support World Heritage values;
* To identify and ensure the retention of environmentally significant areas;
* To liaise with all levels of government and have input into all planning and development that impacts on the social, economic and environmental well being of the Mission Beach community;
* To maintain a heightened community awareness of environmental issues through education and dissemination of information;
* To establish and maintain a gift fund for the acceptance of gifts made to the association for the association's environmental purposes.
Through the working groups and the vision statement of "Knowing Keeping Sharing", C4 undertakes to protect Mission Beach's natural values to ensure a healthy environment, community and economy. We believe Mission Beach can develop and maintain its unique identity, including being a place where you can still see a cassowary in the wild.
The aims are:
* To implement the Cassowary Management Plan, Mission Beach environs;
* To promote and support World Heritage values;
* To identify and ensure the retention of environmentally significant areas;
* To liaise with all levels of government and have input into all planning and development that impacts on the social, economic and environmental well being of the Mission Beach community;
* To maintain a heightened community awareness of environmental issues through education and dissemination of information;
* To establish and maintain a gift fund for the acceptance of gifts made to the association for the association's environmental purposes.
Through the working groups and the vision statement of "Knowing Keeping Sharing", C4 undertakes to protect Mission Beach's natural values to ensure a healthy environment, community and economy. We believe Mission Beach can develop and maintain its unique identity, including being a place where you can still see a cassowary in the wild.
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