Nine Mile Club launched 

It’s official.  The Nine Mile Club has been launched.  Fourteen partners and the community came together on Sunday, 6th March, to clean up marine debris which had washed ashore on prevailing winds and currents.  Approximately eighty per cent of the debris is made up of plastics of global origins, of which larger items trap wildlife and smaller fragments enter the ecosystem through bioaccumulation.  Furthermore, the unsightly nature of the debris taints visitor enjoyment of the Byfield National Park

Nine Mile Beach is a coastal camping area on the edge of Byfield National Park about 40 km north of Yeppoon in Central Qld.  

Capricorn Conservation Council (CCC) was successful through the Australian governments Caring for Our Country Community Action Grant to run the ‘Nine Mile beach cleanup project’ which involves three cleanup days and producing a long term management plan. Future cleanup days have been scheduled for 16th April and 25 June at Nine Mile Beach.

Partners of the project include CCC, Greening Australia, Department of the Environment and Resource Management (DERM), Rockhampton Regional Council, CQ Offroad, Fitzroy Basin Association, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Capricorn Local Marine Advisory committee, Surfriders – Capricorn, Stockyard Point Progress Association, Byfield Hall Community Group, Fitzroy River and Coastal Catchments and Envirolink.

For more information please contact Greening Australia on 0439 745 366 or email pmalyszek@greeningaustralia.org.au