Wet Tropics Waterways in Cairns, Queensland, Australia | Community organisation

Wet Tropics Waterways

Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Address: 63 Anderson Street 4870 Cairns, QLD, Australia

Website: http://wettropicswaterways.org.au

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24.01.2022 Cairns Regional Council have been installing fishway ladders to improve connectivity in urban areas. Watch how this one was built in Mooroobool.

23.01.2022 Johnstone Landcare & Johnstone Catchment and Johnstone River Catchment Management Association will be planting more than 40,000 trees in riparian areas over the next year, which will provide numerous waterway health benefits including stabilising creekbanks during floods. Read more: https://terrain.org.au/reef-assist/ Cassowary Coast Regional Council Wet Tropics Major Integrated Project Queensland Environment Department Ports North Queensland Water and Land Carers

22.01.2022 Did you know that the Wet Tropics is home to about 25% of Australia's frog species? They love healthy waterways and are generally an important indicator of the health of our environment. Here's the Mountain Mist Frog, one of our most critically endangered rainforest frogs.

19.01.2022 Teaching the next generation of land managers about water quality is all part of a project in the Tablelands that is fixing erosion hotspots in the Upper Johnstone basin to reduce sediment flowing off the land into the river.

18.01.2022 This weekend's ABC Landline featured a couple of our local farmers in a story delving into what's being done to reduce the runoff of nitrogen and sediment: https://www.abc.net.au//good-reef:-the-challenge/12860556

15.01.2022 Today we visited Cairns Regional Council's flash new water laboratory and met some of the scientists analysing water quality samples from some of the projects happening in our region.

14.01.2022 Surveying salt marshes around Port Douglas and Mossman. You don't hear too much about them but they are an important part of our wetland ecosystems, filtering water runoff and sequestering carbon.

11.01.2022 This looks like a heap of fun if you want to cool off and enjoy our waterways. By the way, the Mossman River is graded B for Good in our 2020 Report Card.

01.01.2022 Douglas Shire are to reduce over-fish next year with a new campaign focused on educating the community about sustainable fishing.

01.01.2022 ReefClean have a number of beach clean ups across the region from Port Douglas to Tully Heads over the next couple of weeks. Go to their facebook page to find out more about how you can get involved.