Reef And Rivers Podcast
1) 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 Reef. Their business is a great example of what's been achi...Show More
2) S6.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 understanding how people perceive, value and interact with the Great B...Show More
3) 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. In this podcast he talks about biosecurity issues in the Wet...Show More
4) 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 environmental park. In this podcast he talks about his love of con...Show More
5) 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 clippings from the Gold Rush era helped to understand more about...Show More
6) 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 decisions made to fix fish barriers such as weirs and dams.
7) 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 issues. In this podcast, Sam discusses the challenge of purifyi...Show More
8) 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 debris. In this podcast, Heidi talks about the problem of litt...Show More
9) 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 freshwater basins, estuaries, inshore and offshore areas of...Show More
S6.E1 Phil Laycock, Results of the 2024 Wet Tropics Waterway Health Report Card
17:41 | Jul 16th, 2024
10) 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 Walsh talks about the importance and diversity of microfauna ...Show More