Leunig for Prime Minister!

While radical decisions are being made that will have a long term detrimental affect on our natural environment, the life it supports continues to find ways to survive - or not.
 
The opportunistic feeding habits of the cassowary has enabled it to adapt, to a certain extent, to the encroachment of development. It also  brings the known threats to its survival.  

Previous signs describing the Coquette Point Foreshore and Wetlands as part of the Wet Tropics World Heritage were vandalised.  I hope all people visiting the foreshore area now will learn how special this place is and realise the intrinsic value of 'this home for birds'.

Three generations of the Epong family belonging to the Mandaburra clan, right to left, Henry, Nellie, James and in the front Michael-John were delighted to inspect the new Coquette Point signs, before going for a walk on the foreshore to see which migratory shore birds had arrived.

The wind was blowing very strongly and a sandstorm occurred as we walked around the low side of the rookery.

 In the lee of the dune three pelicans and a darter were sheltering from the  wind.

Proposed changes to the Nature Conservation Act  will turn the Act,  like the Vegetation Management Act, on its head.

You can read a draft submission prepared by ASH here ASH DRAFT SUB NCA&OLA Bill (No. 2) 09 Sep 2013




The following is a summary of the changes. 

Read the latest news from the southern region of the Cassowary Coast in the August edition of Phoenix published by ASH.