August 2019
Thanks to the efforts of our volunteers and our donors, C4 has been very active this year not only in securing and enhancing cassowary corridors and habitat but also physically caring for orphaned and injured cassowaries.
We have started the revegetation of 7ha of former banana farm on Old Tully Road, Maadi, in a joint project with Queensland Trust for Nature. The cleared area is part of a 16ha property for which C4’s Land Gift Fund contributed money. The land has been identified as an important link in providing a wildlife connection at Smith’s Gap through the Walter Hill Range section of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. This forms part of Australia’s longest east-west tropical rainforest from Wongaling Beach to the Evelyn Tableland.
In another development, C4 has, in collaboration with Rainforest Reserves Australia, taken over the day-to-day operation of the Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility. The operation, funded by RRA and Queensland Department of Environment, Science and the Arts, has two long-term young cassowaries which have been growing well and are being prepared for release. A sub-adult which had been hit by a car also spent a few weeks under care before it was released back into the wild. C4 president Peter Rowles praised the volunteers who had made this valuable service possible. Working at both ends of conservation spectrum
Thanks to the efforts of our volunteers and our donors, C4 has been very active this year not only in securing and enhancing cassowary corridors and habitat but also physically caring for orphaned and injured cassowaries.
We have started the revegetation of 7ha of former banana farm on Old Tully Road, Maadi, in a joint project with Queensland Trust for Nature. The cleared area is part of a 16ha property for which C4’s Land Gift Fund contributed money. The land has been identified as an important link in providing a wildlife connection at Smith’s Gap through the Walter Hill Range section of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. This forms part of Australia’s longest east-west tropical rainforest from Wongaling Beach to the Evelyn Tableland.
In another development, C4 has, in collaboration with Rainforest Reserves Australia, taken over the day-to-day operation of the Garners Beach Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility. The operation, funded by RRA and Queensland Department of Environment, Science and the Arts, has two long-term young cassowaries which have been growing well and are being prepared for release. A sub-adult which had been hit by a car also spent a few weeks under care before it was released back into the wild. C4 president Peter Rowles praised the volunteers who had made this valuable service possible. Working at both ends of conservation spectrum