Category: Nature & Environment
Step Up to Clean Up Wonga Beach
Now is the time for the Douglas Shire community to Step Up to Clean Up, to help protect and conserve our local environment.
The Evidence for Native Coconuts Growing in Australia
A closer look at the long-standing history of coconuts in Australia. Historical sightings, Indigenous knowledge, linguistics and oral history about coconuts is evidence that they grew in Australia prior to European colonisation in 1788. A fossil coconut and fossils of Cocos pollen are evidence that they may have been in Australia for millions of years.
Experience an Extraordinary View From Mars
Experience the extraordinary view from Mars as NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover gets its first high-definition look around its new home.
OPINION / Our Threatened Littoral Forests, and Why They are so Important
COUNCIL’S recent actions in permitting quad bike and ATV traffic on Wonga Beach, and the inevitable impacts it will have on our important (and World…
Community Heritage Advocate’s Clash with Cairns Council Heads to Court
Cairns community advocate Geoff Holland will appear in Cairns Magistrates Court tomorrow Tuesday 23 February, 2021 at 9am to face charges of Wilful Damage and Police Obstruct.
Douglas Shire Council & Indigenous Rangers Build Rainforest Resilience at Wangetti Beach
CASSOWARY habitat at Wangetti Beach will be rehabilitated in a collaboration between Terrain NRM, Douglas Shire council and indigenous rangers.
Australia Commits to Ocean Protection by Joining the Global Oceans Alliance
The Australian Federal Government joins almost 40 other countries in the Global Oceans Alliance to drive urgent action towards global ocean protection.
Report / Regenerative Cane Farming Forum Cairns February 2021
Over one hundred and thirty cane farmers, agronomists, scientists and advocates attended a two-day Regenerative Cane Farming Forum in Cairns this week from all cane growing districts, including a strong contingent from Mossman.
OCEAN CONSERVATION / The Great Reef Census Needs Five Minutes of Your Time Today
DOUGLASNEWS.NETWORK The Great Reef Census is a world-first citizen science effort to survey the Great Barrier Reef. Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef have collected…
Regenerative Grazing / Increased Production, Resilience, Profits and a Climate Change Solution
IN an Australian first, Wilmot Cattle Company will be paid around half a million dollars for soil carbon credits. They are being paid for sequestering 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into their soil by using regenerative grazing practices.