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W

e must first teach our children to love the Earth before we

can ask them to protect it’ – the sentiment echoes the

words of David Sobel in his book Beyond Ecophobia, but

it is Aunty Dr Joan Hendricks, Quandamooka Elder and lecturer

in education, who is standing before a crowd of some 100 people

at a Wildlife Queensland Bayside Branch event, praising the

natural beauty and the rich heritage of her traditional homeland.

The many Aboriginal names applied to the greater Moreton

Bay region – Quandamooka among them – were for centuries

‘whitewashed’ over after Lt. James Cook named the place

‘Morton’s Bay’ in 1770 in honour of Lord Morton, president of the

Royal Society. The name was later recorded on local maps with a

spelling error and became Moreton Bay.

The crowd of volunteers, nature lovers, citizen scientists

and friends of Moreton Bay collectively nods along as Aunty

Dr Hendricks speaks. She knows better than anyone the value

of this habitat. Empirical evidence, sites such as the Toorbul

fish trap, and numerous middens and bora rings illustrate that

traditional owners have lived off the natural resources of the

Moreton plateau and Moreton Bay from the last ice age to the

present day. For at least 20 millennia, Indigenous kinship groups

have occupied land and sea, simultaneously adapting to and

taking custodianship of these habitats and homelands. Yet this

esteemed Quandamooka Elder is preaching to the converted.

Like her, and most of the people in the room, I’m already in awe

of Moreton Bay’s splendour, its potential, and its need for greater

protection than the established 3400 km² Moreton Bay Marine

Park (MBMP) set aside in 1992, the 11 declared Fish Habitat

Areas, and the wetlands protected under RAMSAR and other

international conventions for migratory shorebirds. Like Aunty

Dr Hendricks, I’m connected to this region, convinced of its

ecological importance, and prepared to help protect it. But there

are still others we need to convince.

In my role as a research scientist at the University of

Queensland, the values unique to Moreton Bay presented

themselves as worthy topics for my thesis. In 2015, along with

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Close to one-third of Moreton Bay

Marine Park meets at least one of the

ten criteria for World Heritage listing.

COSTING NATURE

Most of Australia’s capitals are situated next to rivers, bays, or beaches, making it easy for even the

most avowed cityslicker to explore and appreciate marine environments. For aquatic ecosystems,

however, an ever-expanding human population all too often generates problems. Environmental

planner Michael Lusis maps the values of a spectacular bayside environment on the doorstep of

Queensland’s capital and explains why it deserves better protection.

BRISBANE’S BAYSIDE

TREASURE CHEST

MORETON BAY’S BID FOR

WORLD HERITAGE LISTING

Harold Walker Jetty lapped by the waters of Moreton Bay

at Dunwich, North Stradbroke Island. Photo: Paul Welding [CC]

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