Series 4 - Miscellaneous


Date Range1982 - 1993
Quantity9 folders
ProvenanceWildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale Branch, Cairns Branch
Description

This series comprises some correspondence that was originally in these folders, membership lists, leaflets, newspaper articles and some newsletters that were also originally in these folders.

ArrangedOriginal order maintained

Inventory Listing

Wildlife - animals

Folder contains correspondence and information on flying foxes, fluffy gliders,freshwater fish, cassowaries, pademelons;
Wet Tropics bat conservation program newsletter 1, 7/12/1991;
Bat newletter 3, August 1992;
Flying fox rescue newsletter 5, 23/1/1993;
copies of the Local Government and Environmental Planning Manual written and produced by the Threatened Species Network (Qld);
Labor's fauna and flora guarantee - endnagered species and habitat protection;
copy of "Japanese perceptions of wildlife" Stephen R Kellert, Conservation biology 5(3) September 1991

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1991 - 1993    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00022 Box Number 3 Series 4
Frog and bilby leaflets

Folder contains copies of "What is a bilby?" and "Frogs of Cairns gardens

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Quantity 1 folder Formats Ephemera
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00021 Box Number 2 Series 4
Miscellaneous

Folder contains a demand from the Tablelands branch for an inquiry into proposals for a woodchip industry;
informatin sheet on the cassowary;
Tablelends Nature Awareness Society minutes of AGM 17/8/1982;
correspondence;
copy of the Constitution of the Cape York Conservation Council;
media release from CAFNEC

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1982 - 1983    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00012 Box Number 2 Series 4
Endangered species

Folder contains correspondence;
information sheets including "Wildlife in your backyard"; "Frogs of Cairns gardens";
information on a 1992 bat rearing workshop held in Cairns;
information on domestic animal controls;
questionnaire on cat registration

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1984 - 1992    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence and Ephemera
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00025 Box Number 3 Series 4
National parks - fauna 1982-89

Folder contains correspondence;
press statements by the Hon P R McKechnie, M L A, Minister for Tourism, National Parks, Sport and the Environment, dated 5/7/1984, 10/4/1984, 12/12/1984;
copy of the "Draft code of practice for the shooting of kangaroos" July 1984;
report to WPSQ on cassowary research project meeting held 12/8/1988

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1982 - 1990    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence, News Clippings and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00037 Box Number 4 Series 4
Port Douglas development

Folder contains correspondence;
newspaper articles on Port Douglas including "Strong interest in Port development" Cairns Post 6/3/1985;
"Report on the parties and the sham of the Four Mile Beach Resort proposal and plans", John Henry, Port Douglas

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1985 - 1986    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence and News Clippings
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00027 Box Number 3 Series 4
Biting midges 1983

Folder contains newspaper articles including "Malaria risk with new Cairns airport" Cairns Post 30/6/1983; "Mini vampires enjoy feast in far north" Cairnsweek 30/10/1983;
"Midges, man and the marine environment" Eric J Reye, Operculum 5(4) 1982;
Biting midges - Cairns 1983;
information on simple collection of biting midges for identification

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1982 - 1983    Quantity 1 folder
Formats News Clippings and Photocopied Documents
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00028 Box Number 3 Series 4
Mangroves - general

Folder contains correspondence and information on fisheries habitat, wetlands, mangroves;
Proposal for land resumption for environmental purposes;
article "Mangrove forests - a national asset to be guarded" J S Bunt, Australian fisheries, January 1981;
summary of Australian mangrove reserves;
article "The mangrove forests of Cairns, Northern Australia" by E J Hegerl, & J D S Davie

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1981 - 1986    Quantity 1 folder
Formats General Correspondence and News Clippings
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00029 Box Number 3 Series 4
Membership lists

Folder contains Cairns branch membership lists and contact details, as well as contact details for other branches

Creator Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gordonvale and Cairns Branches
Control Original order maintained
Date range 1990 - 1992    Quantity 1 folder
Formats Lists
Inventory Identifier WPSQ00008 Box Number 1 Series 4

Published by the James Cook University Library on September 2009, 01/09/2009
Listed by Janine Meakin
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