A 24 page booklet has been produced by C4 outlining the continuing, increasing, and unsustainable threats to the endangered Cassowary population at Mission Beach.

The booklet was made available by grants from the Federal Government Enviro Fund and the State Government Gambling Fund. It is a condensed version of the message C4 presented at the recent Cassowary Summit hosted by The Wet Tropics Management Authority in Cairns.

Containing some confronting graphics and a hard hitting message, the booklet highlights that legislation on a local, state and federal level is inadequate to protect the endangered cassowary despite countless research projects and management plans being funded over the past two decades.

With development pressure reaching an unprecedented level and 40% of the remaining habitat at Mission Beach still not protected, the message is loud and clear that the cassowaries are in real trouble. The aim of the booklet is an appeal for help from the public to encourage immediate action from local, state and federal governments to address the increasing threats by way of buyback, fair incentives to landholders and changes in legislation
Veiw pdf here

Mission Beach Fringe Dweller Identification Project .

C4 is piloting an identification sightings project which hopes to identify individual birds and track their movements in the landscape. This should be quite easy to do in Mission Beach if as many people as possible whose properties back onto natural areas take a record of time/date/direction of the bird/birds they see regularly.

The information collected would be valuable community input desperately needed now for the Council to be guided on the necessary laws that need to be put in place to help save our cassowaries at Mission Beach.

If anyone is interested in joining in the study please call into C4 to collect a three month sighting form.

Mission Beach Fringe Dwellers Identification Project – Part 1 (link to Part 1)