The FIDO publishing team have finished compiling and editing MOONBI 140 which is available now. Download MOONBI 140 Table of Contents for MOONBI 140 President’s Report Team Leadership Thoughts on FIDO’s Future directions What is a Bioblitz? My Brother John The Pandanus Problem Project Work Paper of Weeds: Utilising the weeds of K’gari K’gari’s Dingoes Continue reading
Conferences
The John Sinclair Memorial Lecture 2024 – Guest Speaker Bob Brown
Honouring the outstanding contribution Dr John Sinclair AO made to conservation, this years lecture will be delivered by renowned environmentalist Dr Bob Brown. ‘Saving life on Earth will take civil insurrection’ The latest science charts massive storms, sea level rise, fires and extinction yet the corporate foot is on the accelerator and the absurdity of Continue reading
K’gari conference Djaa-Ngarawinj (Land and Sea) report November 9th and 10th 2023
On November 9 and 10, FIDO members attended the K’gari conference at the Fraser Coast campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast. At this two-day event, our own Peter Shooter presented a session on the Pandanus restoration programme that FIDO has been running with Isaac Neisler and his team. The conference hosted a number Continue reading
The Towards 2050 K’gari Research Symposium – Registrations Close 19 November
A USC-led symposium is aiming to develop a research strategy to help ‘future-proof’ K’gari, the world’s largest sand island, over the next three decades. The Towards 2050 K’gari Research Symposium will bring together the island’s traditional custodians, the Butchulla People, researchers, students, environmental groups and other stakeholders at USC’s Fraser Coast campus on Friday 26 November. Continue reading
How Fares the Vision for the Great Sandy – Sixteen Years On?
By Geoff Mosley. Review completed on 31st December 2020. Conservation is surely one of the most unselfish of human behaviours. What is being protected for the future is often a heritage from the past, in some cases a result of past conservation efforts that have the potential to inspire others. What better reason can there Continue reading
MOONBI 139
The FIDO publishing team have finished compiling and editing MOONBI 139 which is available now. Download MOONBI 139 The importance of MOONBI Excerpt Fraser Island Bulldog (chapter 2), a memoir by John Sinclair At the time of the formation of FIDO when mining leases were being opposed in the Mining Warden’s court, (Christmas New Year Continue reading
The John Sinclair Memorial Lecture 2020
Dr John Sinclair AO, founder of the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation (FIDO) died on 3rd February 2019. FIDO is honoring the outstanding contribution John made to conservation generally, and Fraser Island (K’gari) in particular, by establishing the John Sinclair Memorial Lecture. This pioneering conservationist spent decades fighting first sand mining and then logging on K’gari Continue reading
President’s Annual Report 2018
In the last 12 months since my last Annual Report, FIDO has continued to pursue projects to protect K’gari (Fraser Island) as well as continuing our strong educational, collaborative and advocacy roles. Much of the last year has been involved in actively planning ahead as FIDO develops its vision for 2020 both for K’gari and Continue reading
President’s Annual Report 2017
Fraser Island Defenders Organization President’s Annual Report — July 2017 In the last 12 months since my last Annual Report, FIDO has continued to pursue projects to protect K’gari (Fraser Island) as well as continuing our strong educational, collaborative and advocacy roles. Download the full report: President’s Annual Report 2017
Sand, Sea and Sun – Invitation
6th Biennial Fraser Island Conference Innovation Centre — University of the Sunshine Coast Wednesday, 12th August, 2015 — 9.00 am to 5.00 pm FIDO’s previous Fraser Island conferences 2020 Vision (Noosa 2004), True Grit (USC 2006), Shifting Sands (The Gap 2009) FIDO @ 40 (The Gap 2011), A Natural Laboratory (Mt Coo-tha 2013) have dealt Continue reading