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July 2017.
St. Patricks College students from Townsville recently visited C4 as part of their Biodiversity & Species Conservation studies. |
Save our cassowaries
Appeal funds will be used to create a revolving fund to purchase residential rainforest, and adjacent land in the Mission Beach area, which is vital to the long-term survival of the endangered Southern Cassowary. (The Queensland Government's Land Titles Act enables landowners to place a legally binding Conservation Covenant on their land.)
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This is Judith and she visits C4 regularly. Photo by Valerie Boll. Come on in to the Environment Centre and you may get lucky with a cassowary sighting up close. Cassowary Sightings updated 21 May 2017...check it out under the What We Do drop down menu. Activities > Cassowary Sightings
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Adult male foraging for food on the Licuala dirt track in March 2017
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Welcome!
Our Focus And Aims
Harmony
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.
About C4 - Our History
gunday & jinju by Leonard Andy
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.
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/
| C4 Committee Nomination Form.pdf |
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