Category: Action & Insight
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September is Biodiversity Month
September: A whole month dedicated to our primary goal of biodiversity. After all, biodiversity is our business and what better…
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Rainy Mountain Nature Refuge
Di and Philip Daniels are in the final stage of having 94 acres of their 97-acre property at the base…
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Supporting WWF to explore biodiversity co-benefits in Central Queensland
QTFN is supporting another initiative funded by the Queensland Government as part of the Pilot Projects Program of the Land…
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Accounting for Nature
In 2020, QTFN moved to implement the Accounting for Nature® Framework model at Aroona Station – a scientifically credible and…
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Refuge habitat for the brush-tailed rock-wallaby
Aroona Station features around 200 hectares of core habitat for the vulnerable brush-tailed rock-wallaby. In 2020, as part of our…
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Counting the Co-Benefits
As the carbon offset or carbon farming market grows in its maturity, there is considerable interest in how biodiversity co-benefits…
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Walking the island together
In November last year, Traditional Owner Samarla Deshong spent a week on Avoid Island with QTFN’s Dr Renee Rossini. Samarla…
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Eradication of invasive weeds
In 2020, QTFN wrapped up a three-year weed and marine debris clean-up project supported by a Queensland Department of Environment…
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Monitoring island birdlife
Avoid Island’s unique combination of fruit-rich coastal scrub, open eucalypt woodland, mangrove and tidal flats, provides habitat for an estimated…
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Thriving and surviving flatback turtles
Mysterious and majestic, flatback turtles are the only sea turtle to nest solely on Australian shores and Avoid Island is…
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Great Barrier Reef Foundation Reef Islands Initiative
In December 2020, QTFN and its project partners, Koinmerburra Aboriginal Corporation and Mackay and District Turtle Watch, were awarded a…
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Caring for Country
A major highlight for QTFN during 2020 was establishing and strengthening our relationship with the Traditional Owners of Avoid Island,…