Thanks to an extraordinary effort, we have stopped at least 360,000 tonnes of sediment and large amounts of other agricultural run-off polluting Australia’s most famous natural wonder. Click here to sign the Parliamentary petition saying that you want a sustainable future for Cairns, not an industrial mega-port.After decades of work, A$200 million in taxpayer funding and even more from farmers’ pockets, we finally have a rare good news story to tell about the Great Barrier Reef.Use the easy tool at the bottom of this page to send an email to your local MP’s Nobody wants to hold back the economic future of Cairns, but new dredging threatens to do just that and is not necessary for our industries such as tourism, sugar export and defence to continue. This would have negative impacts on the economy. If we break our promise we open the door to at risk listing and would send the wrong message to potential tourism visitors. Our commitment to UNESCO to prevent new dredging in ports like Cairns was crucial in preventing recent ‘at risk’ listing for the reef. The case for priority port status does not add up, Cairns is not and never should be a large bulk commodity port. This would allow unlimited capital dredging for port expansion in the future and risks turning Cairns into an industrial mega-port like Gladstone. The same vested interests are now calling for Cairns to be made into a priority industrial port. Offshore dumping of dredge spoil in the GBR Marine Park 2014 – expanding the Cairns channel would significantly increase the amount of maintenance dredging and dumping required annually. © Josh Coates/CAFNEC/WWF
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