Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy: Natural Resource Analysis Program: Environmental Regions of Cape York Peninsula

The Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) was established as a program in the Commonwealth Environment Portfolio in 1989 to provide geographically related environmental inormation required for planning and decision making.

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Caring for Cassowary

The program will identify solutions to reduce threats affecting the future of the southern cassowary on Cape York, operating across all land tenures, and will include:

• the establishment of an Indigenous Fire Mentoring Program to support Indigenous people in cultural fire management

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Ant Plant Species Profile

Myrmecodia beccarii was declared Vulnerable under Queensland’s Nature Conservation Act, 1992 because its population is decreasing due to key threats (primarily habitat loss due to clearing of coastal Melaleuca forests for development).

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Plan for the recovery of the southern cassowary

The southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) occurs primarily in rainforest habitats but can also be found in woodlands, swamps, and disturbed vegetation forraging for fruits throughout the Wet Tropics.

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