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Operators forge on in citizen science despite rocky year

The project means water quality monitoring is done by those who spend their days on it.

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10th Oct. 2020 5:10 AM

Ocean Rafting are one of the Whitsunday Tourism operators involved in the Blueprint for Tourism Operators project. Picture: Supplied

Mackay growers lead charge in reef bill battle

Farmers plead for change to reef bill: ‘Why do we want a bureaucratic baseball bat to wack cane farmers?’

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27th July 2020 3:07 PM

Farleigh grower and Canegrowers chairman Paul Schembri told senators Queensland growers could lose $1.3 billion over ten years if the regulations were imposed. Photo contributed.

'Traditional knowledge with western science’ to protect reef

State government commits $95,000 to southern Barrier Reef project led by Traditional Owners

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05th June 2020 2:06 PM

Lady Elliot Island is the most southern island of the Great Barrier Reef.

Water quality program back in action

An important water quality monitoring program aimed at preserving the Great Barrier Reef has been reignited following the...

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28th May 2020 5:05 AM

Ocean Rafting Master Reef Guides James Unsworth and Taylor Chin-Siang Chen with a data logger.

‘Smarter’ management needed to stop wave of extinction

Researchers warn vulnerable wetland creatures are ‘on the front line of extinction’

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23rd April 2020 9:04 AM

Freshwater conservation workers conduct evaluation of local frog and amphibian species in the field. Photo: Kate Mason.

Finally, water in popular bay given the OK for swimming

BUT the forecast weather this weekend is not great for swimming.

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06th March 2020 11:03 PM

GOOD RATING: Finally, the water quality in Ballina’s Shaws Bay has been given a fair to good rating following the recent flooding which turned the popular swimming spot brown.

Bad news in Ballina for last weekend of summer

POPULAR swimming spot has again recorded a poor water quality rating.

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28th Feb. 2020 1:02 PM

NOT SO GREAT; It’s the last weekend of summer, but the usually popular Shaws Bay in Ballina has for the most part received a poor rating in Ballina Shire Council’s latest weekly water quality tests as part of the State Government’s Beachwatch program.

Tourism to make a splash in reef protection

Adventurers put on lab coats in new Citizen Science project monitoring the Whitsunday reefs

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07th Feb. 2020 5:02 AM

James Cook University aquatic scientist Jordan Iles, right, shows Victoria Rival De Bouville from Southern Cross Sailing how to take a water sample as part of a citizen science partnership between in the Whitsunday tourism industry and researchers.

Why cane growers hope for a better year ahead

‘We’ve had everything coming at us from bad weather to State Government issues’.

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30th Nov. 2019 5:11 AM

National Farmers' Federation president Fiona Simson and Canegrowers Mackay chairman Kevin Borg before the annual general meeting at Mackay Turf Club, Ooralea. Photo: Zizi Averill

Water quality at most popular beaches not tested in 6 years

THE council has revealed it hasn't had the staff or resources to participate in a "valuable” beach watch program. So...

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15th Oct. 2019 11:10 PM

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