Environment | May 4th 2013
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Greg Fisk, left, talks with locals John Patterson and Dr Rick Braley
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“Mud Island” is the likely future for Magnetic Island if Townsville Port’s current expansion plans are to be enacted, according to a flyer currently being distributed by two major community organisations on Magnetic Island
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Environment | Apr 9th 2013
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The dredge 'Brisbane' working the Platypus Channel
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“There is no strong economic basis for the expansion of the Townvsille Port ” says North Queensland Conservation Council (NQCC) Coordinator and Magnetic Island resident, Wendy Tubman.
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Environment | Mar 20th 2013
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Big Girl when stranded
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Magnetic Island Network for Turtles (MINT) is calling for community members who are interested in learning how to respond to dead and live stranded Turtles and Dugongs that wash up on our island shores.
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Environment | Mar 18th 2013
Creek to Coral (Townsville City Council - TCC) would like to invite you to join us to provide your ideas and input to inform the preparation of the Geoffrey and Alma Bays Catchment Management Strategy this Saturday March 23.
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Environment | Mar 13th 2013
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Petersen Creek Arcadia
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Are you a potter-upperer? Or do you have a store of little native seedlings lovingly grown from seeds found on the island?
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Environment | Feb 25th 2013
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Recent storm waves at Horseshoe Bay
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Over the last 22 years sea levels around Magnetic Island have risen by about 6.38cm. And, at Horseshoe Bay, where a very popular foreshore park is being chewed away by successive storms, and where council recently decided not to replace storm damaged public toilets in the same, prone, position, the reality of sea level rise is beginning to shape real infrastructure decisions. Some locals are calling for walled protection. But is this a viable solution?
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Environment | Jan 25th 2013
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Stinger net reel at Horseshoe takes a battering
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Some call it the adventure season - when momma nature takes centre stage and puts on a show of power and grandeur - reminding us of who’s in charge. On Magnetic Island it’s been like that this week with 177 mm of rain landing at Picnic Bay on Wednesday-Thursday after some some big falls preceding. The creeks are alive and spilling out of the hills and yesterday, expecting some, possibly unique, surf conditions, another, altogether magical sight was beheld - the kind of experience exclusive to the monsoon wet and one so many visitors to Magnetic in the placid sunny season will never know.
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Environment | Jan 17th 2013
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The Clinic's first patient
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Following is an article from the Magnetic Island Network for Turtles (MINT), a Magnetic Island community group who are performing remarkable work. They have built a "Turtle Clinic" to rehabilitate local sick and injured sea turtles. So now, when a sick turtle washes up on our Island shores, there is somewhere it can go.
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Environment | Dec 7th 2012
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A flatback turtle nests at Nelly Bay while backpackers look on.
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Full moon parties and turtles hatching in the sand just a few metres away don’t sound like an easy mix but, at the X base end of Nelly Bay beach, turtle nesting consciousness has taken a new turn. Last night this season's second flatback turtle crawled ashore to dig a nest near the well-known backpackers and it was the staff who, with a little advice and guidance from Island rangers, insured that the marine reptile’s personal space was respected and, who, later, erected a protective para-webbing and picket fence to identify and protect the nest.
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Do you know what Julia Gillard is up to on Friday?
Few Australians would not feel proud today that the Franklin River was saved, that oil rigs on the Great Barrier Reef were stopped, that the Daintree and Wet Tropics World heritage Area was established to protect priceless natural treasures [ read more ] |
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Anti-uranium rally tomorrow
It looks like there are quite a few Magnetic Islanders and Townsville locals heading to the Riverway Arts Centre Amphitheatre tomorrow for a rally to protest the likely mining of uranium at Ben Lomond, 50kms from Townsville [ read more ] |
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Tree planting to celebrate Gustav Creek’s restoration
“It’s the culmination of three years preparation getting the site ready to plant and I’ll be celebrating the completion of restoration of this magnificent section of Gustav Creek and inviting all to come and plant trees and watch them grow into the future!” That’s how Magnetic Island Nature Care’s (MINCA’s) Charlie McColl described his excitement for a community planting which will be held on Sunday 18 November [ read more ] |
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Ben Lomond threatens food and water supplies says NQCC
"Overflow from the tailings dam of Ben Lomond mine will go straight into the Burdekin River, the water supply for a large community, including Townsville, as well as food growing areas," is part of the threat to the region by the proposed uranium mine, according to North Queensland Conservation Council President, Gerald Soworka [ read more ] |
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Turtle habitat protection plan for Nelly Bay
Tomorrow morning there will be a public consultation at Base Backpackers over a new proposal for a Nelly Bay Turtle Habitat Protection and Beach Scrub Management project that would see the construction of a footpath and low, bollard secured, protective fencing between Base backpackers and the old Nelly Bay helipad [ read more ] |
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