Special Envoy to the Great Barrier Reef, the Honorable Warren Entsch MP, attended the Emerging Issues in Waterway Health Forum in Cairns to hear about microplastics
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Entsch opens emerging issues forum
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Season 2 Episode 1: Steve Turton on the 2019 Wet Tropics Report Card
The 2019 Wet Tropics Report Card graded the majority of basins and estuaries in the Wet Tropics as good or moderate. Professor Steve Turton discusses the results with Wet Tropics Waterways Manager Greg Vinall.
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Scientists converge on Cairns to talk about emerging waterway issues
The health of Wet Tropics waterways will be under the spotlight next month when scientists and environmental managers converge on Cairns to talk about issues ranging from microplastics to climate change. The inaugural ‘Emerging Issues in Waterway Health Forum’, hosted by Wet Tropics Waterways, aims to raise awareness of new issues that are impacting waterways…
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Electrofishing: Scientists Gather More Fish Data
Scientists from the Queensland Government have recently been undertaking fish surveys in several Wet Tropics basins to add to future Wet Tropics Report Cards. The fish index is one of three key indices required to properly assess waterway health in the Wet Tropics basins. In the report card, our annual assessment of waterway health uses…
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