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Cairns is home to a large number of flying-foxes. Most of these are Spectacled Flying-foxes (SFFs) but at certain times of the year, small numbers of Little Red Flying-foxes can also be found. There are 44 known roost sites (or camps) across the Cairns local government area, of which six are listed as Nationally Important Camps. SFF roosts are mainly seasonal with numbers and composition of the camps changing constantly. The Cairns City Library camp is the only camp that is occupied throughout the year.
In April 2015, Council sought advice from leading experts including scientists from the CSIRO and the Melbourne and Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens, to assist in formulating an holistic and long-term approach to flying-fox management. This meeting clearly indicated that eliminating flying-foxes from Cairns was neither feasible nor desirable and that strategies that minimised impacts and prevented increases in conflict needed to be identified.
Based on this expert advice, Council has adopted a multi-faceted strategy to managing flying-foxes in urban areas, particularly in the Cairns city centre. It aims to balance protection of SFFs and the amenity of residents through:
management approach – using scientific advice and data on flying-fox population numbers and movements to determine what actions (if any) will occur;
action - responding to immediate concerns and acting to minimise conflict;
community education and awareness to debunk myths about SFFs and provide residents with scientific facts about SFF populations, behaviours and diseases; and
collaboration with State and Federal Governments on all matters relating to management of Spectacled Flying-foxes, including compliance, conservation and recovery planning.
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Five accurate data sources map makers can rely on for map making are:
- Esri Open Data Hub
- Natural Earth Data
- USGS Earth explorer
- OpenStreetMap
- NASA's Socieconomic Data Centre
Explanation:
1. Esri Open Data Hub has over 250,000 open data sets from over 5,000 organizations worldwide, and is the largest GIS organization in the world. Data types found there are OGC, WMS, GeoJSON and GeoService.
2. Natural Earth Data is a public domain data source best suited for cartographers, and is supported by the NACIS. Physical and cultural raster data, quick start kits (MXD and QGS) files can be found there.
3. USGS Earth Explorer has worldwide satellite imagery and a state-of-the-art user interface. Landsat, Sentinel-2 and land cover, digital elevation models such as NASA's ASTER and STRM are data examples that can be found there.
4. OpenStreetMap possibly has the biggest inventory of buildings in the world, with highly detailed GIS data. High spatial cultural vector data such as buildings and waterways can be found there.
5. SEDAC has a gridded population of the world, including population characteristics, also Global socioeconomic data comes from 15 different themes. Data includes agriculture, climate and health.
Bedrock structure is primarily responsible for landscape differences.
Bedrock lies beneath the surface materials such as soil,
gravel, sand and other sediments. It is a deposit of hard, consolidated,
tightly-bound solid rock. It is the parent material for unconsolidated material
and soil above thus influencing landscapes.
