We’re in need of some good photos of the Northern Quoll, Stripey Possum, Tree Kangaroo, all frogs (particularly the endangered ones), cassowary, all birds (particularly the visually exotic), trees and forest (some big Kuranda trees would be really good), creeks and streams, art and culture of any kind that is visually awesome 🙂
We’re asking for donations for these photographs to be used by Kuranda Region Planning Group, kuranda.tv, Kuranda Paper and “marketing” material to be used for conservation campaigns.
For example, these photographs have been lifted from Ingrid Marker (with her permission 🙂 and Steven (without his permission yet :-/ To include credits for all photographs in all pieces we make is onerous and makes the graphics a bit cluttered around key messages, etc. Usually I would buy stock images on behalf of my client’s material that are ‘royalty free’ – but we don’t have a budget us conservationists!
If you would like to donate photographs to this project please use the upload
Ingrid Marker Mission Beach, Far North Queensland
Ingrid’s photographs of cassowaries over 25 years is a passionate story of love, care and loss – sharing her rainforest bush block in Mission Beach with the same families, year on year. Ingrid shared many intimate moments of the first glimpses of the season’s “Stripeys” – the very cute cassowary chicks – to the devastation of their forest home. During Cyclone Yasi Ingrid spent the night dreading their fate as the cyclone bore down over their forest. The morning after she waited for the first signs of her family to reappear… and they did! They all survived the severe cyclone.
In the years since, Ingrid has lost all her cassowary families to roaming dogs and traffic kills – one by one. She has seen the development of her local area over 25 years and has experienced first hand the devastation of urbanisation in sensitive essential cassowary habitat.
Ingrid understands the current threat to the survival of the species and has committed her time and energy to cassowary conservation, working with Department of Main Roads to improve traffic conditions along the common cassowary road crossings in the Mission Beach area. Her work continues to explore different ways our communities can preserve the precious cassowary for generations to come.
You can watch Ingrid Marker’s video presentation introducing ‘Cassowary Keystone Conservation’ on Youtube, click here.
Ingrid has very kindly donated a selection of her treasured photographs – her memories of her family of cassowaries – to be used for conservation graphic / marketing materials relating to cassowary conservation in our region.
A very small collection of photos from Ingrid’s forest – see below. If you are interested in obtaining photographs of birds of all ages in “the wild” – please contact Ingrid for commercial arrangements. Ingrid is also very knowledgeable about cassowary behaviour – having lived up close and personal for 25 years. Facebook page, click here.