CYCLONE YASI: ONE YEAR ON - PART 2 (ENVIRONMENT)

CYCLONE YASI: ONE YEAR ON - PART 2 (ENVIRONMENT)

How did the icon of the Wet Tropics, the critically endangered cassowary, fare during and after the biggest storm ever to hit the Queensland coast?

Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service ranger Kylie Goodall manages the Cassowary Rehabilitation Centre at Bingil Bay, coordinating 70 feeding stations across the Cassowary Coast that played an essential role keeping birds healthy when so many natural food sources were destroyed.

Bingil Bay artist and conservationist Liz Gallie is on a mission to save the cassowary, and she isn't going to let a Category 5 cyclone get in the way.

Octogenarian conservationist Margaret Thorsborne and her husband gifted Edmund Kennedy National Park to the government for $1. Until Yasi, she had lived in the centre of the park for 40 years. Tragically, the cyclone destroyed her home, and ended her daily cassowary house visits.

On February 3 last year, the biggest cyclone in memory smashed into the Far North Queensland coast. Residents lost their homes, farmers lost their crops and businesses lost their livelihoods.

How is the impact zone faring one year on? Meet the battered but unbowed heroes of cyclone Yasi. Watch our Yasi Anniversary video reports at http://www.cairns.com.au/cyclone

Producer Isaac Egan
Executive Producer Simon Crerar

Photography:
Tom Lee, Marc McCormack, Mike Watt
Liz Gallie, Margaret Thorsborne, Lynne Scafidi,
Sean Davey, Rob Parsons & Julie Lightfoot

Special thanks:
Kylie Goodall, Margaret Thorsborne & Liz Gallie

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[abbey16soccer]

those birds are so CUTE awwwww