CYPLUS commissioned WBM Oceanics Australia to prepare this report which describes the level of use of commerical and non-commerical fisheries, factors affecing the environmental condition of said fisheries and habitats, and management issues relating to each of the fisheries and habitats in 1994.
There are many histories of the Cape York Peninsula and these may see the same events from differing perspectives.
The Conservation and Natural Heritage Assesment Project was one of the 24 projects undertaken as part of the CYPLUS Land Use Program.
Australia has long been an isolated evolutionary cradle of unique species of plants and animals. The evolutionarily recent invasion of a whole host of animal and plant species has caused significant problems for the ecosystem.
The Airborne Geophysical Survey Project had compiled and upgraded four major regional data sets from Cape York including magnetic, gamma-ray, gravity, and height of ground above sea level.
The Cape York Peninsula is a diverse and important region of tropical Australia covering 13,720,000 hectares.
The Cape York Peninsula is a diverse and important region of tropical Australia covering 13,720,000 hectares.
The land on the Cape York Peninsula has historically been utilised by different cultures for different uses. Aboriginal land use was managed by a complex set of cultural practices involving some ecological manipulation (principally by fire) and a degree of active resource replenishment.
The Wet Tropics yellow bellied glider is a small marsupial classified as vulnerable under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.
The water mouse is listed as vulnerable under the Commonwealth Environmental Protection and Biodiversity and Conservation Act 1999 prompting the development of this plan in 2010 in order to improve the conservation status of the species by habitat conservation, threat reduction, research and public participation activities.