ReefClean – 5 Beaches Loop Clean-up – Cape York, QLD

Dates:
Travel Cairns to Somerset: 5th & 6th of September 2020
Clean-up: 7th – 11th September
Travel Somerset to Cairns: 12th & 13th September

For more information and to register please contact mathilde@tangaroablue.org

We will be adhering to the latest advice from the QLD Government on COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines. Unfortunately, people travelling from Victoria will not be able to attend this event as we need to take extra precautions due to working in remote communities. Prior to departure, participants will be asked to declare that they have not come from overseas, Victoria or any other recognised COVID-19 hotspot in the past fortnight and that they have not displayed any COVID-19 like symptoms within 14 days of the trip departure date.

Due to limited space on this clean-up, we will be conducting a short interview with interested volunteers.

Event Details:
Five Beaches Loop is at the tip of the Cape York Peninsula and Australia, and will be our last Cape York clean-up camping trip for 2020!

Due to the proximity of the community of Bamaga, shopping facilities are a short trip away by car.

The camp area has both toilets and showers on site. We will set up our kitchen and prepare our meals together, so all food and equipment will be provided. All you need to bring is your sleeping gear (tents, blankets, pillow, mattress, etc).

Seats are limited so register early to secure your spot!

Volunteers with their own 4WD vehicles are welcome to join our convoy to drive up to this event, or can meet us on site, just let us know!

This event is being funded by the Australian Government’s Reef Trust.

ReefClean – Chilli Beach Clean-up – Cape York, QLD

Dates:
Travel Cairns to Chilli Beach: 10th & 11th August 2020
Clean-up: 12th – 16th August
Travel Chilli Beach to Cairns: 17th & 18th August

For more information and to register please contact mathilde@tangaroablue.org

COVID-19 restrictions and requirements: Tangaroa Blue will be adhering to the latest advice from the QLD Government on COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines. Unfortunately, people travelling from Victoria will not be able to attend this event as we need to take extra precautions due to working in remote communities. Prior to departure, participants will be asked to declare that they have not come from overseas, Victoria or any other recognised COVID-19 hotspot in the past fortnight and that they have not displayed any COVID-19 like symptoms within 14 days of the trip departure date.

Due to limited space on this clean-up, we will be conducting a short interview with interested volunteers.

Event Details

Chilli Beach is a 7km stretch of white tropical beach, fringed with coconut palms and impressive sand dunes, with magnificent pink sunrises that make this place paradise! Unfortunately, it is also another hotspot for marine debris in the remote Cape York region. We will rehabilitate the stretch of coastline over five days by removing, sorting and recording rubbish items from this beach and entering it into the Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) database.

We will meet and depart from Cairns at 8am, travelling to Coen where we will spend our first night on the road. We will make some side stops over the two-day drive before reaching our campsite which we will call home for the next five days.

Volunteers with their own 4WD vehicles are welcome to join our convoy to drive up to this event, or can meet us on site, just let us know!

We will be in close proximity to the Aboriginal community of Lockhart River, so basic shopping facilities are a relatively short trip away by car. The camp area is very basic with only toilets onsite and we will be able to do one shower run throughout the week to QLD Parks and Wildlife’s base.

We will set up our kitchen and prepare our meals together, so all food and equipment will be provided. All you need to bring is your sleeping gear (tents, blankets, pillow, mattress, etc).

This event is being funded by the Australian Government’s Reef Trust.

Captain Billy’s Landing Clean-up – Cape York, QLD

Captain Billy’s is a very remote place far north on the eastern side of the Cape York Peninsula. For five days we will be collecting and sorting the rubbish from this exposed coastline, and if time allows a rewarded side trip to an amazing waterfall will follow to accomplishing work we achieved as a group out on the sands.

This is an event for the truly adventurous due to the remoteness of the area and the very basic facilities provided on site! A campsite area will be booked out for the event allowing us to spread out and set up a camp kitchen to prepare meals together, which will be provided by Tangaroa Blue. All you need to bring is your own sleeping gear (tents, blankets, pillows, mattress, etc).

We will depart from Cairns at 8am. Seats are limited so register early to secure your spot!

Volunteers with their own 4WD vehicles are welcome to join our convoy to drive up to this event, or can meet us on site, just let us know!

To register and for more information please contact vanessa@tangaroablue.org

Dates:

Travel Cairns to Captain Billy’s Landing: 8th & 9th June 2019

Clean-up: 10th – 14th June 2019

Travel Captain Billy’s to Cairns: 15th & 16th June 2019

This event is funded through the Australian Government’s Reef Trust

Cooktown Marine Debris Source Reduction Plan Workshop – QLD

If all we do is clean up, that’s all we’ll ever do. This Source Reduction Plan workshop invites community members, local businesses, school representatives and government representatives to assist in the development of a local plan that stops litter at it’s source. Everyone is welcome and you don’t have to have experience in this field, just an interest in protecting our local environment and the Great Barrier Reef.

This workshop is part of the ReefClean project which is funded by the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and delivered by Tangaroa Blue and Conservation Volunteers Australia
The workshop is being supported by the Cook Shire Council Yuku Baja Muliku Junior Rangers Yuku-Baja-Muliku Land & Sea Rangers
#ReefClean #ReefTrust Australian Department of the Environment and Energy Great Barrier Reef Marine Park South Cape York Catchments

Register on Eventbrite: ReefClean SRP Cooktown

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