Embedded Files
Cooloola Coastcare
Record every living thing in Cooloola
Record every living thing in Cooloola
Aims
Aims
To generate and extend biodiversity data for Cooloola, an outstanding natural area on the World Heritage Tentative List.
To educate the participants and the larger community about the area’s living natural resources.
To build citizen science capacity through mentoring and training.
To conduct on-going monitoring in the region.
To change existing culture and mindsets about the importance of biodiversity and the connectedness between all living things and the environments people live in.
To contribute to the datasets about biodiversity in the region.
Why?
Why?
Cooloola
Cooloola
The Cooloola Coast is recognised as a natural environment of international significance with the following accreditation:
It is on the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative list
Part of the Great Sandy Strait Ramsar Wetland of International Significance (992)
Located within the UNESCO Great Sandy Biosphere Reserve
Part of the Great Sandy Marine Park
The non-urban area is predominantly taken up by the Cooloola Recreation Area, Great Sandy National Park - Cooloola Region and undeveloped state land.
It is home to many endangered, threatened and vulnerable species including humpback dolphins, dugongs, migratory seabirds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, and marine turtles. It also has rich biodiversity on land and in the catchment, estuaries and marine environments.
It also has rich biodiversity on land and in the catchment, estuaries and marine environments. It is part of the Wallum freshwater biogeographic province.
Cooloola and the neighbouring island of K’Gari have the only sea level Patterned Fens in the world.
Page updated
Report abuse