This Cassowary story appeared in The Age, SMH, The Brisbane Times and SKY News and describes the bad news for cassowaries in Mission Beach. However, what is happening there – loss of habitat – is being replicated in Kuranda and surrounding districts. It is well and truly time to seriously lobby our federal, state and local government politicians, it is in your power to make a difference.
Click on names below to contact our elected politicians. We will provide contact details of all other candidates when any election is called and details are known.
Minister Peter Garrett , Jim Tourner MP Leichhardt, Steve Wettenhall MP Barron River, Jason O’Brien MP Cook, Shane Knuth MP Dalrymple, Tablelands Regional Council, Cairns Regional Council and your local councillor e.g. Jenny Jensen Kuranda, to save the cassowary. Please write, phone, email, blog, tweet, it’s the only way that this magnificent bird will be saved.
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PLEASE NOTE!! SCAT COLLECTION DAY POSTPONED UNTIL 10 APRIL – WEATHER AGAIN PERMITTING.
DATE FOR YOUR DIARY Sat 27 Mar 10 Collect Cassowary Scats for DNA
Meet at 8.30 am KCons Nursery, 1 Pademelon Drive, Kuranda, for a stirrup cuppa and then travel to scat collection areas. Wear the usual (stout shoes, hat, water bottle, sunscreen) and please bring digital camera and GPS if you are able to. Collection materials and forms provided. Choose your transect – short and easy walking or longer, more energetic. Back by about 1.30 for lunch provided by KCons. RSVP please so we can arrange transects.
Contact KCons 40938834 for further information.
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Saturday mornings 9 am – 12 noon
Potting and general work around the nursery at 1 Pademelon Lane. Come in to do some potting up, buy plants or worm compost, have a natter about KCons and what we do, how we can help you or how you can help us. A cup of tea is generally on around 11.30am.
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8-19 Feb 2010 Plants and People
BZ3510/5510 Subject at James Cook University Cairns
This is a great opportunity for KCons members over 50 years of age to attend this subject free of charge (and others, it is well worth checking out) if a member of U3A . See more details on the U3A website, click on JCU.
Plants and people focuses on the study of the past, present, and future uses of plants, and of the relationship between plants and people. We depend on plants, using them or their products in nearly all of daily activities. Many plants also depend on humans for their existence, and many more are affected by our ways of life. But how has this interdependence come about? Are we using plants sustainably? Could we be using them better? And how will people’s use of plants change in the future? This subject examines these and other fundamental questions, drawing on both plant sciences and the social sciences. Through it, students will gain a deeper understanding and appreciation both of the economic and cultural importance of plants and of the role of plant sciences in society.
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5 Oct – 27 Nov 09 Weed Buster Week Interschool Competition
This year for Weed Buster week, an interschool competition will be launched throughout primary and secondary schools in the Wet Tropics. The aim of this competition is to raise awareness about the impact of weeds on the Wet Tropics. The competition will commence on the 5th October and run for 5 weeks. All entries will have to be complete and submitted by the 6th of November 2009. Final winners will be announced on the 27th November. The theme for 2009 is “Weeds and the Wet Tropics don’t mix.”
Contact Amanda McCall AMcCall@cva.org.au
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7 – 13 Sep 09 Weed Buster Week
Check the web page and/or contact Amanda McCall AMcCall@cva.org.au
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Tuesday 8th Sep 09 Cassowary Festival Tanks Art Centre, Edge Hill from 3.30-8.30pm
Cassowary Festival FREE night out! Brought to you by the Cassowary Recovery Team
For further information visit: www.wettropics.gov.au
Wildlife stalls * Cassowary Q&A * Food stalls * Screening of “Cassowaries” documentary by Bianca Keeley * “No Wabu No Wuju No Gunduy ” by Aboriginal Corp Girringun * And don’t miss at 5.15pm ”Plight of the cassowary” play by Trinity Anglican School, written and directed by Dianne Daniels, treasurer Kuranda Conservation
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