S6.E10 Steve Lizzio, Growing Bananas Beside the Great Barrier Reef
Award winning banana growers Steve and Richelle Lizzio grow bananas in Mission Beach on one of the closest banana farms to the Great Barrier...
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Reef And Rivers Podcast
Healthy waterways underpin the vibrant lifestyle, economy and environment of the Wet Tropics Region in Far North Queensland. They also underpin the health and well-being of Australia's iconi...
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Listen to Reef And Rivers Podcast, a Government & Organizations podcast by Greg Vinall, Wet Tropics Healthy Waterways Partnership. Stream 72 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 72 episodesS6.E9 Dr Matt Curnock, Human Dimensions of Waterway Health
Dr Matt Curnock is a senior research scientist at CSIRO in Townsville. His work in social and environmental science is focused on understand...
S6.E8 Maree Baade, Tablelands Regional Council
Healthy waterways underpin the vibrant lifestyle, economy and environment of the Wet Tropics Region in Far North Queensland. They also under...
S6.E7 Travis Sydes, Biosecurity and the Threat of Amazon Frogbit
Travis Sydes managing natural resources in Far North Queensland as part of FNQROC, which represents 10 local governments across the region....
S6.E6 Geoff McClure, Restoring Cattana Wetlands
Geoff McClure is one of hundreds of conservation volunteers who have helped transform Cattana Wetlands in the north of Cairns into an enviro...
S6.E5 Barbara Wueringer, Discovering The Elusive Sawfish
Zoologist Dr Barbara Wueringer talks about her work with the fascinating sawfish her research of and how trawling through old newspaper clip...
S6.E4 Matt Moore, Fish Passage
Fisheries ecologist Matt Moore from Catchment Solutions talks about why fish habitat connectivity within waterways is so important and how d...
S6.E3 Sam Bastounas, Using Seaweed to Strip Nutrients from Water
Sam Bastounas is the CEO of Pacific Bio, an Australian company that develops green technology to address water quality and food security iss...
S6.E2 Heidi Tait, Cleaning Up Marine Debris
Heidi Tait is the founder and Managing Director of Tangaroa Blue, a not for profit organisation focused on removing and preventing marine de...
S6.E1 Phil Laycock, Results of the 2024 Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card
This is the 9th annual Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card to be released by Wet Tropics Waterways to assess the health and condition of...
S5.E10 Dr Robert Walsh, Micro invertebrates in waterways
Micro invertebrates are tiny creatures that are invisible to the naked eye but form the basis of the food web in our waterways. Dr. Robert W...
S5.E9 Kim Hooper, Prawn Farming Near the Great Barrier Reef
Australia loves its prawns so much that Queensland's aquaculture industry produces more than $200M of produce of each year, but is it sustai...
S5.E8 Gareth Phillips, Tourism and Conservation on the Great Barrier Reef
Millions of tourists come to north Queensland each year to experience the natural wonder of the Great Barrier Reef. This influx of people fr...
S5.E7 Associate Professor Mike Rasheed and Paul Doyle, Seagrass
Seagrass meadows play a critically important role in the reef ecosystem. They are nursery habitat for fish and prawns, they stabilise sedime...
S5.E6 Fiona Barron, Tracking Progress on Great Barrier Reef Water Quality
The Great Barrier Reef is about the size of Japan or Italy and there are millions of dollars being invested in improving the runoff of water...
S5.E5 Mark Kennard, Bloomfield River Cod
Professor Mark Kennard discovered the Bloomfield River Cod in the early 90's whilst undertaking fish surveys as a research assistant. It is...
S5.E4 Dr Samantha Tol, Dugongs, Turtles and Seagrass
Did you know that seagrass is the only plant in the world that is capable of fruiting and flowering underwater? This is just one of many fas...
S5.E3 - Joe Marano, Cane Farming by the Great Barrier Reef
The sugarcane industry is a highly visible part of the Wet Tropics landscape – if you drive between Ingham and the Daintree, you can't miss...
S5.E2 - Nathan Waltham, Restoring Coastal Wetlands
Nathan Waltham, Senior Principal Researcher at James Cook University, is an expert in coastal landscape ecology and processes. In this episo...
S5. E1 Greg Vinall, Results of the 2023 Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card
This is the 8th annual Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card to be released by Wet Tropics Waterways to assess the health and condition of...