Cassowary food trees

CASSOWARY-FRIENDLY plants are growing underneath a new railway bridge near Tully, thanks to a partnership between Queensland Rail and local organisations. Cassowary food shrubs and native ground covers were planted in December at a replacement rail bridge at Big Maria Creek in the Smiths Gap area. Queensland Rail, Terrain NRM and C4 Conservation Mission Beach representatives inspected the new plantings recently at the cassowary corridor that links Mission Beach with the Atherton Tablelands rainforest.