Cairns Airport is surrounded by high value mangrove wetlands. Environmental Manager Lucy Friend talks about the airport operations, surrounding mangroves and World Wetland Day
Episode 6: Cairns Airport Mangrove Wetlands – World Wetlands Day 2019
Episode 5: AMPTO Crown Of Thorns Starfish (COTS) Control Program
Subscribe To Reef And Rivers iTunes | Stitcher | Google Podcast | Spotify | iHeart | Download This Episode Crown of Thorns starfish are thought to have lived naturally on the Great Barrier Reef for thousands of years, but in numbers low enough that the rate of coral destruction was less than the rate of regeneration.…
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Episode 4: Rod Marti On Sediment And Riparian Management
Rod Marti talks about some of the ongoing projects being undertaken by Barron Catchment Care in 2019. These include projects to manage the impacts of water runoff from residential allotments and the implementation of BMP for mixed cropping agriculture.
Episode 3: Bess Murphy (CAFNEC) Mangrove Watch In FNQ
In Episode 3 of "Reef & Rivers" Bess Murphy from CAFNEC talks about the mangrove communities of the wet tropics region. Bess explains how important these communities are and how citizen scientists in the Mangrove Watch program are monitoring the health and trends in mangrove communities.