Books & Research Papers
The Coral Dredgers
Queensland Cement and Lime Company and the Mining of Moreton Bay, 1931–1997 – John G. Butcher
In the early 1900s the Queensland Cement and Lime Company pioneered the production of Portland cement in Queensland. Initially, it obtained the calcium carbonate it needed to make the cement from a limestone quarry in southern Queensland, but in the 1930s it turned instead to Moreton Bay’s coral reefs. For more than six decades, right up to 1997, QCL dredged coral from various reefs and carried the coral up the Brisbane River to a wharf near the company’s factory at Darra. By the 1990s it had removed nearly all the reefs around Mud Island and along the eastern side of St Helena Island and had consumed much of the reef at Empire Point. What prompted QCL to make the switch from rock limestone to coral? How did the company come to devour so much of the bay’s coral? And what finally brought coral dredging to an end? These are the questions The Coral Dredgers sets out to answer.
Moreton Bay Quandamooka & Catchment: Past, present, and future
This book was generously gifted to The Moreton Bay Foundation by the independent group of scientists, consultants and industry experts who organised and presented the Moreton Bay Quandamooka & Catchment Forum. It is an expansion of the research presented at the Forum and includes the latest updates available at the time of publication.
This book is dedicated to the future stewards of Moreton Bay Quandamooka and the lands and waterways of its catchment.
A Nature Guide to North Stradbroke Island Minjerribah
This guidebook provides a comprehensive introduction to the island’s unique wildlife and ecology. Beautifully illustrated with over 700 photographs, the nature guide has been compiled as a community project by members of the Friends of Stradbroke Island, a non-profit community group, dedicated to protecting the island’s unique fragile environment. Many people—FOSI members, bushwalkers, bird watchers, photographers, expert ecologists, island lovers and Traditional Owners—have given freely of their time and expertise to the book.