Sunrise over the Cassowary Coast on the way into Mission Beach from El Arish
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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. Cassowary Sightings updated 19 June 2016...check it out on the Cassowary Sightings page.
C4 President Peter Rowles explaining how to properly plant a plant to the students of Townsville Grammar. Photo by Peter Trott
Tropical tree-planting
True tropical conditions greeted Townsville Grammar School students and staff during the annual visit to C4 on March 11.
The 29 students were taking part in their baccalaureat program, a course requirement in which they must get out of their comfort zone and do some work to benefit someone else and then report on the process.
With four staff getting down and dirty too, the students cleared weeds, dug holes and planted nearly 100 trees along Rockingham Drive on part of Lot 66.
The group had, on their arrival at C4, inspected the nursery, loaded up the plants and tools and listened to a presentation on the work of C4 including our role in securing Lot 66 as a cassowary corridor and why it is important to cassowary survival on the Cassowary Coast.
C4 president Peter Rowles, nursery coordinator Carol Walker and secretary Peter Trott were on hand to teach the students how to prepare the holes and plant the trees.
The high humidity and bursts of sun created a sauna-like atmosphere but when the job was done the sun disappeared and light rain gave the new plants a great chance to get established.
More photos here:
True tropical conditions greeted Townsville Grammar School students and staff during the annual visit to C4 on March 11.
The 29 students were taking part in their baccalaureat program, a course requirement in which they must get out of their comfort zone and do some work to benefit someone else and then report on the process.
With four staff getting down and dirty too, the students cleared weeds, dug holes and planted nearly 100 trees along Rockingham Drive on part of Lot 66.
The group had, on their arrival at C4, inspected the nursery, loaded up the plants and tools and listened to a presentation on the work of C4 including our role in securing Lot 66 as a cassowary corridor and why it is important to cassowary survival on the Cassowary Coast.
C4 president Peter Rowles, nursery coordinator Carol Walker and secretary Peter Trott were on hand to teach the students how to prepare the holes and plant the trees.
The high humidity and bursts of sun created a sauna-like atmosphere but when the job was done the sun disappeared and light rain gave the new plants a great chance to get established.
More photos here:
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.
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.
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/
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