Machans Environmental Group in Cairns, Queensland, Australia | Environmental conservation organisation

Machans Environmental Group

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Address: Machans Beach 4878 Cairns, QLD, Australia

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24.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/441274629823923/

23.01.2022 Mass Coral Bleachings on the Great Barrier Reef 2016, 2017, 2020 Just in - 2020 Mass Coral Bleaching is wroe than 2016 and 2017. DEMAND Cairns Regional Council declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY NOW!

22.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/898597137243237/

22.01.2022 Did he say there is a mangrove species (hybrid) native and special to Machans Beach??? https://www.facebook.com/CAFNEC/videos/288183292181140/

20.01.2022 A decade ago, it was widely thought that most tipping points wouldnt be reached until around 5 degrees Celsius of warming, but now evidence is mounting that theyre more likely to happen at between 1C and 2C above pre-industrial levels, according to Will Steffen from ANUs Climate Change Institute, one of the authors of the paper. Currently were at a global average of about 1C degree of warming. "The more we learn, the riskier it looks," Professor Steffen said.... https://www.abc.net.au//climate-emergency-kids-ar/11735942 https://www.abc.net.au//climate-emergency-kids-ar/11735942

20.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/473992693524348/

19.01.2022 COMMUNITY GROWERS FNQ Another great afternoon on Wednesday with volunteers providing boxes of local organic produce to the community at the lay-by (where Fruit Bat was). Growers have been restricted from selling their produce since the closure of several Tablelands markets due to the pandemic.... If you would like to buy some, there are $30 boxes and $50 boxes of wonderful fresh produce at the Fruit Bat on Cook Hwy opposite the airport every Wednesday 3pm - 6pm. You can also join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/200876541217448/ where you can talk to the growers!

19.01.2022 CAIRNS REGIONAL COUNCIL - DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY! We will continue to remind Cairns Regional Council of the need to declare a Climate Emergency as 75 other jurisdictions have done in Australia so far representing 6.5 millions Australians. Councillor Brett Olds has said that declaring a Climate Emergency is not only merely symbolic, it is just tokenistic.... We will be holding 23 photo placards depicting the recent, and ongoing unprecedented catastrophic fires in all states and territories in Australia, which has burnt out over 107,000 square kilometres of bushland - an area roughly the size of South Korea - killed at least 27 people and 1 billion animals, destroyed 5,900 buildings including 2204 homes, to remind Councillor Brett Olds that declaring a Climate Emergency is anything but tokenistic! The prognosis for the future is worse fires! With 50% net loss of the Great Barrier Reef already since 1985 due to Global Heating, the prognosis for the future is more loss! Declaring a Climate Emergency is the first step in implementing serious Climate Policy and Action. We will meet on the front lawn of Cairns Regional Council building at Spence St entrance 119-145 Spence St at 8.30am, Wed 22 Jan 2020. We will attend the General Meeting of Council and sit quietly in the public gallery (as we have several times before) holding at least one large banner as well as placards. Wear black. It is a non-arrestable action. The meeting is live-streamed and later located on the Cairns Regional Council website, so our messages will not be missed. Also, media are usually present at these meetings. We will de-brief at the Cairns Regional Council cafe afterwards. https://www.facebook.com/events/2488979788096253/

18.01.2022 GLOBAL HEATING and CLIMATE CHANGE Some properties become uninsurable. Machans Beach (Qld) In Machans Beach, 19.4% or 132 of 682 addresses will be potentially uninsurable by 2050.... This will rise to 31.8% or 217 addresses by 2100 This is the advice of the experts in the insurance business. (Do your own search on this ABC News web page). It must be said that this prognosis is not 100% certain. I suggest if we all get Climate Active now - that is do more than express an opinion on the Net, but engage in grassroots activism, rallies, and probably also non-violent direct action (NVDA), things may not be as bad as projected. But if we continue the way we are going (emissions are still rising), we are currently heading for 3degC - 5degC warming which is going to be so disastrous, not being able to insure our properties will be the least of our concerns. Physical survival may be our main focus. We have already lost 50% of the Great Barrier Reef, due largely to Global Heating (but also to nutrient run-off triggering Crown of Thorns outbreaks). Of the remaining 50% we can expect to lose 70% - 90% with just 1.5degC warming. At 2degC warming we are likely to lose >99% - ie all of it. We are already at 1.1degC warming with 0.7degC locked in ("Carbon lag"). So if we really understand the Climate Emergency we are in, we can get active. There are 12 Climate Action groups in Cairns - choose any one of them, or start your own. Budget just a couple of hours a week will make a world of difference and a difference to the world. https://www.abc.net.au//the-suburbs-facing-risin/11624108

17.01.2022 LETTER TO CAIRNS POST Warren Entsch, may as well say Special Envoy for the Minerals Council, is hoodwinking all those gullible enough be hoodwinked (08/10). ...Plastics on the reef is not good. But in terms of threats to the Reef it is way down the list. The biggest threat to the Reef by far is Global Heating. Plastic pollution is being intentionally used as a distraction. Half of the Reef has died since 1985, unable to achieve net recovery, and that is fact. The way we are going there will be no Reef and no Reef tourism industry to speak of if we dont stabilize and rapidly reduce global greenhouse gas emissions which are still increasing! Australia is the worlds biggest exporter of coal and LNG gas and the government wants to keep that show going for as long as possible. It is immoral. It will cost us the Great Barrier Reef and a whole lot more. People in power who know the reality and choose to lie about it must be regarded as climate criminals. One day they will be held to account. Geoff Holland, Convenor, Extinction Rebellion Cairns Machans Beach

16.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/1332213403649513/

15.01.2022 The end of the Great Barrier Reef? While wildfires rage above ground, Australias oceans face their own climate crisis. But the Australian government is ignoring warnings of a climate disaster as it plans to mine billions more tonnes of fossil fuel.

11.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/1272461249618904/

09.01.2022 https://vimeo.com/388415130

09.01.2022 The ABC Australia Talks Back surveyed 54,000 Australians about what climate action they want and when through the Australia Talks National Survey. This is likely to be a general reflection of what the community in Cairns thinks and feels also. Check it out! Its fun!... https://www.abc.net.au//australia-attitudes-clim/11878510

08.01.2022 Please Sign and Share! The Fire Chiefs are going to have a big impact on a confused largely disinterested Australian community, and ultimately on criminally negligent climate obstructionist Federal and State governments. https://www.change.org/p/australian-federal-government-we-/

06.01.2022 Maybe an idea for Machans Beach? https://www.theguardian.com//sweet-city-the-costa-rica-sub

06.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/2544304489000648/

06.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/2760411587325960/

04.01.2022 OUR PRECIOUS BIRDS Here are a few bird species spotted recently at East Trinity. How many of these do we get at Machans? Bar-shouldered Dove... Black Bittern Black-faced Monarch Brown Honeyeater Brown-backed Honeyeater Brush Cuckoo Burdekin Ducks Cattle Egret Collared Kingfisher Common Sandpiper Coucal Crested Tern Crimson Finch Darter Fairy Gerigones Figbird Golden-headed Cisticola Great Egret Great-billed Heron Helmeted Friarbird Intermediate Egret Lapwings Leaden Flycatcher Little Bronze Cuckoo Little Egret Little Kingfisher Little Pied Cormorant Lovely Fairywren Mistletoebird Osprey Pacific Golden Plover Peaceful Dove Pelican Rainbow Bee-eater Royal Spoonbill Sacred Kingfisher Scrubfowl Shining Flycatcher Straw-necked Ibis Striated Heron Sunbird Suphur-crested Cockatoo Swiftlet Varied Honeyeater Varied Triller Welcome Swallow White-necked Heron White Ibis Willie Wagtail Yellow Honeyeater Yellow Oriole Yellow-spotted Honeyeater Bird-watching in Machans: Let us know what bird species you saw (photo if possible) - when and where, and we can build up a record. (From Barr Creek to Redden Island, to the runway). Of course the above list doesnt include the Black Cockatoo which we see often in Machans Beach ever since Cyclone Yasi).

04.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/420645918639733/

03.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/events/2591516884264911/

03.01.2022 A great way to participate in the protection of our wonderful birds, knowledge is power !

01.01.2022 https://www.wettropicsplan.org.au//threatened-ecological-/

01.01.2022 "Climate change in the Far North Queensland region" Queensland government ***** Click on the link *****... https://www.qld.gov.au//far-north-qld-climate-change-impac