Category: Featured Story
NEWS IN 5 / Thursday 9 June 2022
IN BRIEF / The latest news affecting the Douglas Shire
New Indigenous Grants Program Now Open to Local Environmental Students
Cairns’s Terrain NRM has a new $3000 bursary program for Indigenous students for tertiary studies, to encourage more young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to become future leaders on country and in environmental fields in Far North QLD.
Tropical Wonderland Spiegeltent Giveaway
We’re giving away three double passes to Sunday’s sensual, sexual, sumptuous, subversive, sublime, saucy, scrumptious, sizzling, stupendous ROUGE show. Enter now!
Celebrate Community Resilience with the Port Douglas Neighbourhood Centre
Across the day we have a Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country, Jumping Castle, Live Music, Petanque, Tai Chi, Sausage Sizzle, Chatty Café, Indian Cooking Demonstration, Live Animals courtesy of the Wildlife Habitat, a family history workshop, beading workshop, and our Op Shop the NicNak Shed will be having a sale.
Long Lost ‘Bum-Breathing’ Turtle Makes A Return
The turtle is among a number of freshwater species which uses its cloaca (equivalent to its bum) to breathe while underwater, thus able to stay submerged underwater for longer.
NEWS IN 5 / Friday 6 May 2022
IN BRIEF / The latest news affecting the Douglas Shire
NEWS IN 5 / Saturday 2022
IN BRIEF / The latest news affecting the Douglas Shire
FANCY YOURSELF A BUDDING NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER ?
Your shutter might only be open for a few seconds but your pictures could help Protect Rainforests Forever.
NEWS IN 5 / Friday March 4 2022
IN BRIEF / News, views, insights and inspiration from around the Shire and beyond our borders.
A Promising Future for the Queensland Oyster Industry
Farming blacklips and other tropical rock oysters in Queensland has an estimated production value of $72.6 million, potentially more than double the value of the barramundi industry.