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Welcome!
October 2013.
With assistance from the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, a 1300 ANIMAL turtle stranding sticker has been developed for distribution throughout our local community networks. Click here to go to 'Media Articles' to download the Guide to 1300 Animal Stickers file.
Photo: left to right - Maurice Franklin C4, Cr Bill Shannon, Tony Lee and Tom Brown in front.
With assistance from the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection, a 1300 ANIMAL turtle stranding sticker has been developed for distribution throughout our local community networks. Click here to go to 'Media Articles' to download the Guide to 1300 Animal Stickers file.
Photo: left to right - Maurice Franklin C4, Cr Bill Shannon, Tony Lee and Tom Brown in front.
What's been happening in 2014
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.
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.
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
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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