Saving sawfish: From ocean-tagging sawfish to taking eDNA - and even DNA samples from 100-year-old 'saws' hanging on pub walls... Scientists are learning more about these endangered creatures in the Wet Tropics.
wettropicswaterways.org.au/sawfish/
#sawfish #endangered #wettropics
A tree kangaroo, up a rainforest tree in the Wet Tropics region of Queensland, Australia.
A Lumholtz’s tree kangaroo.
Quirky facts:
They can leap about 18m to the ground.
They like time alone.
They only give birth to one joey a year.
They are rainforest regenerators, eating fruits and depositing those seeds through the forest.
📷 A Terrain NRM staffer
#treekangaroo #wettropics
A Bower's shrike-thrush - a songbird - is 1 of the species recorded in recent #bird surveys in #WetTropics upland #rainforests. Results show just how much healthy bird populations rely on healthy forests. We are surveying in areas, & around areas, where we'll be expanding forests.
📷 Amanda Freeman
Our regions and economies rely on a healthy, resilient environment. We need more investment and we need to build capacity in a restoration sector that has traditionally been reliant on volunteers. That starts with more collaboration, sharing knowledge and resources...
#wettropics #environment
Thousands of butterflies glide over the ocean to get to tropical islands for the winter months. They don't eat, drink or reproduce there. Then they fly back: wettropicswaterways.org.au/littoral-rai...
Image: Garry Sankowsky
#butterfly #migration #overwintering #wettropics #islands
With world heritage rainforest on 1 side & the Great Barrier Reef on the other, the city of Cairns has a lot to offer - & a lot to watch over.
That's why we need to work together, think innovatively & develop sustainable solutions. Working towards a smart green economy...
#cairns #wettropics
This is what teamwork looks like in the Wet Tropics region.
📷 Brian Ross
#ants #teamwork #wettropics #biodiversity
While looking for frogs: A discovery in the half-light of early morning... This Christmas orchid (Calanthe triplicata) was admired by field officers on rainforested Mt Lewis in the Wet Tropics.
It's also where we are monitoring the endangered mountain-top nursery frog.
#orchids #wettropics #frogs
A passion for fruit makes the southern cassowary a super-sized helper in Wet Tropics rainforests. They swallow native fruits whole, the seeds remain intact and while they roam the rainforest their digestive processes help it to grow.
📷 Terrain's Bronwyn Robertson
#cassowary #wettropics #rainforest
Reconnecting forests, expanding wildlife corridors:
We are focusing on private properties in wildlife corridors and strategic rehabilitation areas across the Wet Tropics region, helped by our newest project:
terrain.org.au/green-connec...
#revegetation #wettropics #forests #biodiversity
Southern Cassowary
Etty Bay, Queensland, Australia Canon 1D X Mark II and EF 500mm f/4L IS USM
1/1000s | f/5 | ISO 6400
#cassowary #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #wettropics #threatenedspecies #birds #naturephotography #canonphotography #queensland #australia #ettybay
The Bloomfield River cod was unknown to science until the 1990s. But it’s thought to be 25 million yrs old. This species only lives between 2 remote waterfalls in the #WetTropics. Scientists are racing to save it.
More here: tinyurl.com/bds3k3a4
tinyurl.com/mvcts22w
#bloomfieldrivercod #endangered
Funding green infrastructure to address erosion and flooding - it's one of the recommendations in the new State of the Wet Tropics report.
www.bit.ly/4qBTpvf
#wettropics #climatechange
Reasons we love mangroves: They reduce the force of waves and help to prevent coastal erosion, they store carbon in their roots and soil, helping to reduce greenhouse gases, and they support biodiversity by being breeding grounds for marine life.
#mangroves #wettropics @globalmangroves.bsky.social
With rain comes frogs... and right to our doorstep 🐸
We loved this surprise at our Cairns office entrance, to start the new work year on the right note.
#frogs #wettropics
Port Douglas, Queensland by Imi Koetz https://www.artlimit
#exhibition #photographydaily #edifice #wettropics #fineart #australia #construction #waterscape #color #master_shots #colors_of_day #sugarwharf #pontoon #slowshutterspeed #documentary #photography #slowshutter…
Yule Point, Australia by Imi Koetz https://www.artlimit
#photographydaily #photography #monoart #beach #bnwphotos #bw_society #blackwhite #nature #ocean #fineartphotography #australia #minimalism #landscape #blackandwhite #wettropics #blackandwhitephoto #lowtide #landscapeshot…
Despite taking up just 0.26% of Australia’s total area, the Wet Tropics bio-region contains half of Australia’s bird species, one third of its mammals, about 3000 plant species and 600+_ different coral species.
#biodiversity #wettropics
The Wet Tropics world heritage rainforest is large areas of fragmented habitat. Our goal is to reconnect and buffer them to create a large, healthy and intact system that is more resilient... to conserve this critical ecosystem for future generations.
#wettropics #rainforest #revegetation #trees
Farmer - Water Sampler - Waterway Lover.
Wendy Finlayson helps with one of our water monitoring projects. "I love seeing how much life and activity there is in the creeks and drains, and seeing how our farming culture can work in with our waterways".
#waterways #wettropics #watersampling
Nature at its best. One of our field officers spotted this moth during vegetation surveys in broad leaf tea tree woodlands.
#broadleafteatree #moths #wettropics
A conversation we need to have, as we look to natural systems to manage multiple hazards.
#mangroves #wettropics
Soil: One of our most valuable natural assets. Sugar cane farmers in the Wet Tropics are trialling different cover crops - in previously fallow paddocks - to improve their soil's health.
terrain.org.au/what-we-do/s...
#soil #soilhealth #wettropics
In Cairns this week... So we are presenting on our biodiversity credit scheme, Cassowary Credits, and co-hosting field trips all over the Wet Tropics region - to biodiversity hotspots, farms, erosion remediation sites, wetland restoration sites, nature refuges and more.
#biodiversity #wettropics
Fish for lunch! A striated heron with quite the mouthful on the banks of the Daintree River. Image: Rebel Warren
#Daintree #worldheritage #heron #wettropics #mangroves #fishing
Turtle love: Photographer Conor Moore says: "It took a few attempts to get the turtles used to me swimming underneath them." Taken at the Frankland Islands south of Cairns, this image was an entry in the 2025 Wet Tropics Waterways Photo Competition.
#turtles #wettropics #franklandislands #cairns
Ulysses butterflies, Australia’s largest snake, rare waterfall frogs, Lumholtz’s tree kangaroos, green ringtail possums, musky rat-kangaroos... The Wet Tropics region's biodiversity is off tap! There are nine other great places in this story too.
#biodiversity #wettropics
Those eyebrows... The southern cassowary. Image: Terrain's Bronwyn Robertson. Recent research suggests one purpose of the cassowary's distinctive casque may be to feel the low vibrating sound made by other cassowaries over long distances.
#cassowary #wettropics #endangered
