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Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival

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24.01.2022 Remembering World Cassowary Day at Mission Beach in 2015. https://worldcassowaryday.wixsite.com/world-cassowary-/home

22.01.2022 Japanese Kirigami style of Papercarvings by Kiri Ken

22.01.2022 The first Cassowary chicks for this breeding season have been seen and the adult birds are very active now on the roads. Please keep watch and slow down. Flash your lights to on-coming motorists to warn them too.

22.01.2022 We welcome visitors to enjoy our special place. Most importantly, please be casso-wary https://mypolice.qld.gov.au//attention-drivers-far-north/

21.01.2022 Cassowary Crossing! This is a very active time of year for the cassowaries.

21.01.2022 Did you know Eric has been spreading the message since last year's Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival.

21.01.2022 Essential listening every morning, please share

20.01.2022 This is what the Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival is all about, celebrating these astonishing birds and our special environment.

20.01.2022 A Memmory to share...This time last year we were all putting the last touches on our costumes for the Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival 2019. https://www.facebook.com/1363227337102526/videos/896417730710285/

18.01.2022 Hi my name is Meryl Harding, I'm entering the Treatened Species Bake Off. I’ve baked this giant chocolate brownie and have decorated it with my favourite big bird, the cassowary. Cassowaries are important seed dispersers and we would not have rain forest if we did not have cassowaries.

16.01.2022 Locals celebrating World Cassowary Day say "Cassowaries need protection".

16.01.2022 Good News for Cassowaries, the Environment and the Community. https://www.missionbeachcassowaries.com//mission-beach-com

13.01.2022 Watch out folks, this big bird is looking for fruit.

13.01.2022 More habitat for cassowaries.

12.01.2022 Link to documentary.

12.01.2022 Inspired local painter and Mission Beach Community Cassowary Festival committee member Judy Brady says "This painting, called Sneaking Out, is how I imagine the animals would celebrate us humans celebrating them.

11.01.2022 Work is about to start on Australia's first cassowary land bridge - which will link known FNQ cassowary habitats either side of the Bruce Highway for the firs...t time. To get local cassowaries excited, Mission Beach volunteer group C4 - Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation- Box 132 MissionBeach is growing almost 3000 cassowary-friendly plants and trees that will be planted on the bridge to encourage them to use it. Here's the C4 story...

09.01.2022 Learning more about Cassowaries and our unique environment.

09.01.2022 **LOOKING FOR SOLUTIONS**As a member of the Cassowary Recovery Team (CRT), Mission Beach Cassowaries (MBC) recently attended a workshop with Transport Main Roads (TMR) to get a better understanding of what can be done to help address cassowaries being killed on our roads. Here are some of the possible scenarios MBC presented to TMR Minister Mark Bailey when he visited Mission Beach recently. ...They are consistent with a presentation MBC compiled in 2015 for one of the many workshops we have attended over the last decade looking for solutions. Please consider sending the minister a short message of thanks for his active interest in looking for solutions to help make our roads safer for both people and cassowaries. Hon Mark BaileyMinister for Transport and Main Roads [email protected]

06.01.2022 Good news for Cassowaries

05.01.2022 Because of uncertainty due to Covid 19, the Cassowary Festival committee decided to cancel the event this year. We are, however, planning to hold it again during September 2021. Updates will be posted here.

05.01.2022 Local Artists celebrate World Cassowary Day in their own special way. details below....

02.01.2022 These folks love cassowaries.

02.01.2022 Thanks Liz, We do need this number.

01.01.2022 Good news for the cassowaries.