The Catchments to Coral Program aims to improve the health and resilience of coastal habitats within the Great Barrier Reef catchments of eastern Cape York.
This colourful comprehensive guide will let give you the tools you need to easily identify the presence of cassowaries by way of photos of:
This field guide is the culmination of a large amount of practical gully rehabilitation work undertaken over the last seven years by Cape York NRM in collaboration with Griffith University.
What is ICIP?
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) means all parts of Indigenous knowledge and culture that you want protected and recognised including:
This project involves the establishment of a North Queensland Indigenous Fire Management Network, and the implementation of an Indigenous Fire Mentorship Program for its members.
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
This program will help us find out more about the distribution and habitat of Cape York’s cassowaries, ant plants and littoral rainforests and coastal vine thicket country. The majority of mapped priority areas for all three species are on Aboriginal lands and we will work with Traditional Owners and other experts
The rainforest around Lockhart is special. People come from all over the world to see our glow in the dark snakes and Kutini. In all Australia there is nowhere else like it.
The goal of this four-year program is to work with participating grazing land managers to develop and implement practical action plans that improve soil stability, native vegetation, and water quality in the Joint Management Area (JMA) of the Mitchell River catchment.