Banksia Award Category Winner 2007
2007-07-31
The Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme is proud that for the second year in a row we have won the Banksia Awards. The Category is the new Indigenous one, Caring for Country, which recognises the important work that the rangers are doing on country.
Since their inception in 1989, the Ba...
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GHOST NETS TO BAGS
2007-07-26
-Voices of the people who came to the workshop -
We are the Kiriri Arts and Craft Group. We’ve just completed a five-day workshop with Chantal Cordey and Miggs Bodie, making bags from ghost nets as part of the Carpentaria Ghost Nets Project.
Chantal won the Design for a Sea Ch...
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Churchill Fellowship for Ghost Buster
2007-07-04
As the Project Facilitator for the Carpentaria Ghost Net Programme for just on 2 years now it became evident to me that there was a need to address a couple of major concerns regarding Ghost Nets in Australia. Those concerns for me were,
• What do we do with the nets once we have collected t...
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ABC Documentary, "Ghosts of the Gulf"
2007-06-30
Don't miss this terrific documentary about ghost nets filmed late last & early this year. It will be aired on the ABC television show "Message Stick" on 6th August at 6pm EST.
This film showcases the great work done by Indigenous rangers attached to the Ghost Net Programme & was...
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Winner Shares Skills
2007-06-18
Yolngu women from Yirrkala worked with last year’s Design for a Sea Change competition winner to share their skills in weaving. The Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme hosted the Design for a Sea Change competition last year which received some wonderful and inventive ideas for reusing ghost nets inclu...
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6 vehicles help rangers remove ghostnets
2007-06-14
Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme Co-ordinator, Riki Gunn (pictured here with John Bethel, President of Northern Gulf Resource Management Group & Stuart Menzies) was delighted to accept delivery of 3 of the 6 second-hand 4WD Landcruisers purchased from Stuart Menzie of Townsville 4WD Centre. All six ...
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Wondersoft Competition helps Clean Water Campaign
2007-05-15
Wondersoft Toilet Tissue recently had a great competition with various aged school childeren to find a new design for their toilet tissue that reflects their committment to clean water.
One of the themes was ghost nets. It was unfortunate for us that the winning design embraced the "...
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HMAS GASCOYNE SAVES TRAPPED MARINE LIFE
2007-03-07
On 6 March 2007 while conducting Operation Resolute border patrols, Royal Australian Navy Mine Hunter HMAS Gascoyne lived up to her motto ‘Return to the Sea’ when the crew released a number of marine life back into the ocean after discovering them entangled in a three kilometre gillnet.
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6 Tonne Taiwanese Gill Net Retrieved
2006-11-13
A six-tonne bundle of net was brought into the coast off North East Arnhem Land on the 10th Nov 06. This was a fantastic example of teamwork between the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), Customs, NT Parks & Wildlife, Dhimurru Land Management Aboriginal Corporation & Carpentaria Ghost...
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Engineering Competition Winner - Chantal Cordey, Sydney
2006-08-14
The Carpentaria Ghost Nets Programme hosted the Design for a Sea Change Competition. Participants were requested to design a product reusing ghost nets that Indigenous Communities around the Gulf of Carpentaria can manufacture and sell through Indigenous enterprise.
The competition w...
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