the campaign that saved shelburne bay from sand mining...
 
  Tannin stained creek, Shelburne Bay hinterlands  


View maps of the Cape York Peninsula area and the Shelburne Bay region. Click here ...
The conservation significance of Shelburne Bay has been recognised for more than 25 years. Read more...

Wilderness Society welcomes Beattie's no - mining at Shelburne Bay decision. See the latest...

Urge the Queensland Premier to cancel the mining leases that threaten Shelburne Bay.
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Video - Geoff Spanner, Slide images - Kerry Trapnell, Geoff Spanner, Alec Marr


Wilderness Society - Australia Queensland Conservation Council
Australian Conservation Foundation Cairns & Far North Environment Centre

 
 
View from the Coral Sea

 


Protecting the environment and recognising native title rights are the
keys to the future of Shelburne Bay.

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Three generations of Pascoes

 


The Shelburne Bay region is part of the traditional homelands of the Wuthathi people.
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Cape Flattery sand mine, southern Cape York  
Proposals to sandmine the dunefields of Shelburne have proven to be decisive in the history of the region.
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