Cassowary Recovery or Extinction.wmv

"What you are seeing is the story of cassowaries living on the urban fringe at Mission Beach.

The people of Mission Beach love cassowaries and being able to share their lives with a prehistoric bird (ratite) that dates back 16 million years in the evolutionary scale.

Traditionally cassowaries are a shy species living within the rainforest where their camouflage makes them invisible.

They have a foraging range of up to 7 square kilometres and now those living at Mission Beach have to range over open space and cross busy roads, sometimes several times a day.

There has been 60 cassowaries killed trying to cross roads at Mission Beach in the last 15 years.

This and other threats associated with urbanization are pushing this prehistoric species closer to extinction at Mission Beach

Perhaps there should be special road crossings designed so we can still live with these special birds.




What do you think?"

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• mission beach cassowary
• australian endangered
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[WallyCasso]

If cassowary protection stands in the way of real e$tate development, requires dog owners to control their animals and forces people to drive their 4WDs slower than usual....all I can say is [b]god save the cassowary[/b]. Far north Queensland is over-run with redneck hicks, corrupt police and greedy property owners (sometimes all in the same people). Conservationist and wildlife lovers are despised as "greenies" with a little help from the Murdoch press. Keep up the fight!!!