Woopy Doo in Woopen Creek | Non-profit organisation

Woopy Doo

Locality: Woopen Creek

Address: Woopen Creek Road 4871 Woopen Creek, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 Hello & Welcome, I would like to inform our lovely followers that we have an Instagram account called: @woopydoofarm Please FOLLOW along if you would like to see our day to day farming projects, gardening ideas, nature photography and so much more...... Always feel free to tag any photos you have taken at the farm with the hashtags: #woopydoofarm #woopencreek Thank you! /Ellie, Tim & Pippi See more

25.01.2022 Looking forward to tasting lychees like these in the future!

25.01.2022 Eubenangee Swamp on a beautiful afternoon.

24.01.2022 I’ve always wanted to put a sign on my door saying gone to rescue a turtle!... What a beautiful Flatback turtle she is!

23.01.2022 Pippi and Cookie

22.01.2022 Urgent! Help us buy Lot 124 in the Daintree Rainforest and add it to the Daintree National Park! Please donate now at https://bit.ly/2DffxWC. We need to raise $...25,000. A donation of $25 will purchase and protect ten sqm of rainforest. Each $2.50 will save one sqm of rainforest. To donate now visit https://bit.ly/2DffxWC. This property on Quandong Road Cow Bay adjoins the Daintree National Park and is a known habitat for the endangered Cassowary. For more information please see https://bit.ly/2XoNxcH

22.01.2022 Have a read ay, there’s no exaggeration in the comments.

21.01.2022 We love Echidnas

21.01.2022 After receiving many calls from concerned residents and Wildlife and Threatened Species Operations over the past few weeks in regards to concerns of behavior ar...ound turtle nesting this issue needs to be addressed. From Lucinda to Cowley Beach there are many Quad bike owners who believe they have a right to use the beaches even if it is clearly sign posted otherwise. The law states that below high tide mark is in effect a road and can be enforceable by police above is Council or private land issue. These photos were taken at around 6am this morning after a night of quad bike mania at Cowley and speak for themselves. Even if not directly over the nests some are too close for comfort with vibrations and luckily none were hatching at the time. Would really like to talk to whoever put up the warning barriers as this in itself may be detrimental to the nests survival yesterday a shovel was found near a nest that had been dug up, there are a few nests In Mission Beach area at present non marked and remain in tack and left alone. Apparently Hinchinbrook Council have been having ongoing meetings with residents and quad bike riders regarding the situation there and when Council reopens here will be finding out what has been done if anything at Cowley Beach where it clearly states no quad bikes permitted on the beach. As you can see in the last photo this is a very small sample of the rubbish currently on Cowley Beach and instead of residents riding around in the middle of the night on quad bike you may want to go for a walk in daylight hours and clean up the mess so when the turtle hatch they don't choke on the way down to the water!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE SHARE AND MAKE OFFICIAL COMPLAINTS TO BOTH COUNCIL AND POLICE AND THREATENED SPECIES COMMISSIONER IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOMETHING DONE!

19.01.2022 Easy life is not easy, it’s hard work.

18.01.2022 Our paradise beach: Etty Bay. I’ll be working here in a couple of weeks as the lifeguard on duty!

18.01.2022 It was a veeeery wet year.

18.01.2022 The Butterfly Garden is coming along!

18.01.2022 Pippi and Browny

15.01.2022 It’s butterfly season in the rainforest.

14.01.2022 We found the mushrooms but the fairies were nowhere to be seen.

14.01.2022 Here they are, all of our current rascal goats: Brownie, Cookie, Milo and the mommy goat.

08.01.2022 When we get bees, I’d buy myself a comfortable bench, just to be able to sit and watch them all day

07.01.2022 Playing with a friendly moth on a rainy day.

05.01.2022 The Coconut tree. The icon of idyllic tropical islands. Just how idyllic are they for the environment around them? ‘Alteration or elimination of any of the lin...ks in an ecological interaction chain can have deleterious and destabilizing effects on community and ecosystem functioning’ (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00409) Following on from our post about deforestation last week, the removal of native plants and the introduction of non-native species can play havoc with ecological chains. A study undertaken on Manta Rays in the Pacific made an unexpected discovery around Palmyra Atoll. They noticed there were fewer manta rays around that island and fewer fish in general, when around neighbouring islands the marine life was much more abundant. On Palmyra, coconut trees from SE Asia were brought to the island by seafarers some 1500 years ago as a fast-growing source of food and other resources. By 1885, it had been well noted that the coconut trees of Palmyra Atoll were some of the healthiest observed and commercial groves of coconut trees were planted on this uninhabited atoll. Native plant species had already started to be replaced by the invasive coconut trees. Consequently, the bird life on the island diminished (and their poop!) and various insect species thrived. This all created missing links in the ecological chain (see image of chain) including less zooplankton in the surrounding ocean. And less Manta Rays. Scientists are now killing off the millions of coconut trees on Palmyra as part of a regeneration program to transform the entire landscape and ecosystem with the goal of restoring the native ecological balance (https://www.sciencemag.org//save-palm-filled-paradise-biol). A great example of the importance of minimising, or avoiding, any disturbance in the intricate web of healthy terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. To reduce the need for further land clearing for non-native plantations, see last week’s post for actions you can take as an individual.

03.01.2022 Merry Christmas from the Bramston Beach lifeguard!