Notice
board:
Special item needed urgently:
Our Curator needs an inversion table asap! and can't afford a
new one - do you have a secondhand one you would part with?
Ring 4045-0373 arvos, eves.
Items
for sale (some freebies):
bugs, care supplies, some odd furniture, and equipment
Times are tough and we need to downsize. Our Curator has also been ill
(see media item below) and has incurred medical costs (hard to cope with
on a pension!) and must sell off her own cacti and succulents (some are
huge - instant security for borders and ground floor windows!)
If you're just looking for a bargain, are involved in care of wildlife,
or are a non-profit group in need of supplies or live bugs, please let
us know what you are looking for. We need to sell some items cheaply but
others will be made available free to valid rehab permit holders and non-profits.
We have available animal care items, adult woodies, office supplies, disinfection
chemicals, window fans, a computer desk, a long wooden bench, aquariums,
specimen containers, small brochure stands, and a very basic computer.
Call or email to discuss.
Revamped
membership program:
We have slashed our annual fees so that more people can still afford to
be members in today's tough times; please see our membership
page!
Our
Curator is on limited duties while still slowly recovering from surgery.
We can handle information queries, administrative matters and long distance
diagnosis - we cannot resume in-house care until we receive enough donations
to cover wages for a part time carer (reminder: we're tax deductable).
Expressions
of interest: website developer
The most important feature of our website is the information it contains,
but web authoring has advanced so rapidly that our site seriously requires
a spit and polish. However, we have only a very small budget for this.
We want to hear from those needing happy clients for their resume and
can enhance our site with a design template, internal search engine, PayPal,
and online form. Animation and audio can be discussed but are not essential.
The work needs to be done in Dreamweaver (we will not consider migrating
to any other system at this time).
Many
wildlife diseases are also human diseases and our Curator was recently
hospitalised for two of them. Because of her concern for the impact these
diseases can have on human health, we recently issued a warning story
to make residents aware of the sorts of soil diseases that can be picked
up in your own backyard. We know these have been killing frogs and toads
(and fish) but they are seriously nasty when picked up by people, causing
debilitating infections, amputations and even death through blood poisoning.
However, the larger of the Australian media outlets we contacted refused
to run the story. We have to ask: since when does the media have the authority
to withhold warnings about human health? We believe an explanation is
in order. For more on this issue and to see the press release, click
here.
We
have seen the first local case of chytrid fungus today (April 21st) which
is much earlier than we would expect. Please see our chytrid
pages in our disease section so that you can be alert to the arrival
of chytrid in your neighbourhood. Chytrid can be cured but there is a
time limit.
the
Adopt-a-frog campaign
we need to move at least 2,000 of these cards nationwide
if we
are going to resume in-house frog treatment
!
Available
from the following businesses:
in
Port Douglas:
Port Douglas Jewelry Centre, Macrossan St,
Hipp Kids, Macrosson St.
in
Cairns:
The
Green House Environment Shop, Spence St
Enviromart, Aumuller St
Trinity Beach Bar, Grill and Convenience, on the beach
gift shop at the Flecker Botanic Gardens
the office of Steve Wettenhall, Member for Barron River
Future I.T., Anderson St
Overflow stores in Cairns and Atherton
Cairns Accident Repair, Manunda
Half Moon Bay Resort, Yorkey's Knob
Cairns Spring Works and Engineering, Portsmith
Vippiana & Associates, Earlville
Dr. Tim Carruthers, Parramatta Park
in
Brisbane:
Wendy's, Browns Plains shopping mall
in
NSW:
from the Sydney University Wildlife Society
Society of Frogs and Reptiles, Newcastle
All
Things Slimey, Tuggerah
If
you have a business and would like to help us by having some adopt-a-frog
cards available, please ring or email us. You don't have to be in Cairns
to participate - we can ship them to anywhere in Australia.
Are
you receiving nuisance emails that have our domain name as the sender?
We can assure you, they are not from us. Now that we have a broadband
account, all emails from our organisation will be from the Westnet domain.
Any email you receive with our fdrproject.org or fdrproject.org.au domain
has been "spoofed" by one of those rotten, malicious hackers
out there who have nothing better to do with their talents than cost others
time and money!
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