Abstract What conservation could possibly become commensurate with the rates of human-induced biophysical change unfolding at the advent to the Sixth Extinction Event? Any such conservation would require time-critical interventions into both ecosystems and evolution itself, for these interventions would also require domains of risk and ethics that shatter normative understandings of conservation. Yet a line appears to have been drawn in the sand against such experimental conservation. Holding the line will retain conservation practices that are null and void against the extinction debt facing multitudes of species. Crossing the line would invoke scales of bioengineering that appear abhorrent to normative morality. This article explores the question of whether this line in the sand could, and should, be crossed through a detailed case study of current and proposed conservation for endangered Chelonia mydas sea turtles on Raine Island, a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Chelonia mydas and Raine Island are presented as synecdoche for conservation across diverse species across the world because turtles are among the most endangered of all reptiles and Raine Island is the largest and most important rookery in the world for this species. With such lines disappearing under the rising seas, the article contemplates the unthinkable questions that our current situation demands we ask, and perhaps even try to answer.
{"title":"Drawing a line in the sand: Bioengineering as conservation in the face of extinction debt","authors":"Josh Wodak","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.14","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What conservation could possibly become commensurate with the rates of human-induced biophysical change unfolding at the advent to the Sixth Extinction Event? Any such conservation would require time-critical interventions into both ecosystems and evolution itself, for these interventions would also require domains of risk and ethics that shatter normative understandings of conservation. Yet a line appears to have been drawn in the sand against such experimental conservation. Holding the line will retain conservation practices that are null and void against the extinction debt facing multitudes of species. Crossing the line would invoke scales of bioengineering that appear abhorrent to normative morality. This article explores the question of whether this line in the sand could, and should, be crossed through a detailed case study of current and proposed conservation for endangered Chelonia mydas sea turtles on Raine Island, a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Chelonia mydas and Raine Island are presented as synecdoche for conservation across diverse species across the world because turtles are among the most endangered of all reptiles and Raine Island is the largest and most important rookery in the world for this species. With such lines disappearing under the rising seas, the article contemplates the unthinkable questions that our current situation demands we ask, and perhaps even try to answer.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"169 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49383061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
My name is Leonard Andy and I’m a Djiru Traditional Owner of the Mission Beach area. Where I live today and where my Ancestors have lived is not the same place. Today the Mission Beach area has become a tourism destination and it has changed the people, our culture. Presently, there are twelve Traditional Owners living in the area, off these twelve, five are still at school.
{"title":"‘Tourist fiction’: Cassowaries in Mission Beach","authors":"L. Andy","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"My name is Leonard Andy and I’m a Djiru Traditional Owner of the Mission Beach area. Where I live today and where my Ancestors have lived is not the same place. Today the Mission Beach area has become a tourism destination and it has changed the people, our culture. Presently, there are twelve Traditional Owners living in the area, off these twelve, five are still at school.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"183 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48524519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests occupy a crucial but con fl icted space in Queensland ’ s history: once symbols of conservation triumph, they are fast becoming portents of ecological collapse. Until relatively recently, these reef and rainforest ecologies were icons of a rich natural and cultural heritage that has brought pride to Queensland and to the nation at large, while our First Nations communities can celebrate relationships to northern reefs and rainforests that span at least 60,000 years. The ancient Gondwana rainforests of the Wet Tropics match the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef, with both having been recognised for their ‘ outstanding universal value ’ in UNESCO World Heritage Listings. Stories have repeatedly celebrated their beauty and biodiversity, and their rich and complex associations with the local peoples and communities that live there. Yet those inspiring stories of the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests have now taken a dire turn as the emergence of severe threats to the health of both ecosystems threatens death and demise. The damage caused by mass coral bleaching events, acidi fi cation and super-cyclones is paralleled by deforestation, fi re and species extinctions within the rainforests. Rising land and sea temperatures are proving to be ecologically devastating for both these wondrous ecosystems and equally grim in their associated social, cultural and political rami fi cations. Yet we editors have been pleased to observe that the contributors to this special edition have still been able to fi nd some sources of inspiration and hope within these calamitous outlooks. In this of Review , invited the contributors re fl ect the Great Barrier Reef and/or Wet Tropics, their relationship with people and places nearby further a fi eld. not found the urgency of the Barrier ’ s current the contributions in that direction. interwoven rainforests is explicit in some in scholarly analyses and personal re fl ections,
{"title":"Between pride and despair: Stories of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests","authors":"I. Mccalman, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.1","url":null,"abstract":"The Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests occupy a crucial but con fl icted space in Queensland ’ s history: once symbols of conservation triumph, they are fast becoming portents of ecological collapse. Until relatively recently, these reef and rainforest ecologies were icons of a rich natural and cultural heritage that has brought pride to Queensland and to the nation at large, while our First Nations communities can celebrate relationships to northern reefs and rainforests that span at least 60,000 years. The ancient Gondwana rainforests of the Wet Tropics match the biodiversity of the Great Barrier Reef, with both having been recognised for their ‘ outstanding universal value ’ in UNESCO World Heritage Listings. Stories have repeatedly celebrated their beauty and biodiversity, and their rich and complex associations with the local peoples and communities that live there. Yet those inspiring stories of the Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests have now taken a dire turn as the emergence of severe threats to the health of both ecosystems threatens death and demise. The damage caused by mass coral bleaching events, acidi fi cation and super-cyclones is paralleled by deforestation, fi re and species extinctions within the rainforests. Rising land and sea temperatures are proving to be ecologically devastating for both these wondrous ecosystems and equally grim in their associated social, cultural and political rami fi cations. Yet we editors have been pleased to observe that the contributors to this special edition have still been able to fi nd some sources of inspiration and hope within these calamitous outlooks. In this of Review , invited the contributors re fl ect the Great Barrier Reef and/or Wet Tropics, their relationship with people and places nearby further a fi eld. not found the urgency of the Barrier ’ s current the contributions in that direction. interwoven rainforests is explicit in some in scholarly analyses and personal re fl ections,","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"77 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47172545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Radio log 11/8/84 D5 crossing creek under Timbertop’s tree … continues to fill the creek crossing … If he continues to fill it high enough the D10 should go through. Looks like a moonscape where the dozers are working.
{"title":"The Daintree Blockade: Making (radio) waves","authors":"B. Wilkie","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.13","url":null,"abstract":"Radio log 11/8/84 D5 crossing creek under Timbertop’s tree … continues to fill the creek crossing … If he continues to fill it high enough the D10 should go through. Looks like a moonscape where the dozers are working.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"166 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42651271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Great Barrier Reef has been bleaching yet again. If the Anthropocene had a colour table, bleached coral would hold an especially recognizable place within it. By some lights, chromatic behaviour — and chromatic disaster — are best apprehended as secondary qualities, as spectacles that offer to point the discerning observer beyond the tokens of human sense and toward an object’s (or ecosystem’s) essential properties. This article asks whether it is possible, and ethically viable, to recognise corallian colour practice as having meaning in and of itself. I argue that we should recognise coral colourism as the irreducibly relational comportment of species, sunlight, salt water, sediment and so on. Contrary to some influential views, the Reef’s performances are not simply constructed by the fantasies of human spectators, but by stimulating human sensoria, they do hail us as participants in the chromatic field. Reckoning the loss of hue as a discrete catastrophe might therefore generate tools for articulating value in a manner that is not strictly constructivist, naively scientistic or reactionarily idealistic. Caring for the Reef may be, not first of all but not least of all, a caring for colour — a caring against chromatic disappearance and a caring towards chromatic repair.
{"title":"Caring for colour: Multispecies aesthetics at the Great Barrier Reef","authors":"K. Quigley","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Great Barrier Reef has been bleaching yet again. If the Anthropocene had a colour table, bleached coral would hold an especially recognizable place within it. By some lights, chromatic behaviour — and chromatic disaster — are best apprehended as secondary qualities, as spectacles that offer to point the discerning observer beyond the tokens of human sense and toward an object’s (or ecosystem’s) essential properties. This article asks whether it is possible, and ethically viable, to recognise corallian colour practice as having meaning in and of itself. I argue that we should recognise coral colourism as the irreducibly relational comportment of species, sunlight, salt water, sediment and so on. Contrary to some influential views, the Reef’s performances are not simply constructed by the fantasies of human spectators, but by stimulating human sensoria, they do hail us as participants in the chromatic field. Reckoning the loss of hue as a discrete catastrophe might therefore generate tools for articulating value in a manner that is not strictly constructivist, naively scientistic or reactionarily idealistic. Caring for the Reef may be, not first of all but not least of all, a caring for colour — a caring against chromatic disappearance and a caring towards chromatic repair.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"82 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41840320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Queensland has some 400 public museums and art galleries.1 Large or small, these are all dedicated to caring for their part of what is often called the ‘distributed national collection’ and to permanently documenting a segment of our history — social, natural or otherwise.2 Each of us who steps inside such an institution to help in this effort is liable to become lost to this world for the rest of our working life. We are all, in some sense, collectors, and we tend to be very loyal to ‘our’ subject matter.
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It is heartening to see that so many of the scholarly and personal contributions of our special issue should have addressed the complex collisions between culture and nature manifested today within Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforest World Heritage Areas.
{"title":"Epilogue: A reflection on the role of tourism within vulnerable biodiverse reef and rainforest regions – a case-study from Mission Beach and the Cassowary Coast","authors":"I. Mccalman","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.15","url":null,"abstract":"It is heartening to see that so many of the scholarly and personal contributions of our special issue should have addressed the complex collisions between culture and nature manifested today within Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforest World Heritage Areas.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"187 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41815468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract In the early twentieth century, great delight in the unique tropical beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, coupled with an opportunistic spirit for commercial development, inspired the commission of eye-catching posters and advertisements by Australian tourist organisations. The aim of this article is to discuss a pictorial device that developed alongside the rise of modern tourist advertising images of Great Barrier Reef – a split-level viewpoint that approximates the effect of looking at the Reef through the glass sides of an aquarium. Building on my earlier research published in 2019 on wildlife photography and the construction of the Great Barrier Reef as a modern visual spectacle, and combining art history with environmental history, this article also turns to coloured advertising lithographs. It argues that split-level visualisations separate human from non-human and elevate the idea of human superiority. With the Great Barrier Reef facing unprecedented ecological pressures, the historical images at the centre of this article are instructive for understanding the deleterious effects of anthropogenic impact, as well as early twentieth-century attitudes towards human–non-human relations.
{"title":"Aquariums and human–animal relations at the Great Barrier Reef","authors":"A. Elias","doi":"10.1017/qre.2022.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2022.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the early twentieth century, great delight in the unique tropical beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, coupled with an opportunistic spirit for commercial development, inspired the commission of eye-catching posters and advertisements by Australian tourist organisations. The aim of this article is to discuss a pictorial device that developed alongside the rise of modern tourist advertising images of Great Barrier Reef – a split-level viewpoint that approximates the effect of looking at the Reef through the glass sides of an aquarium. Building on my earlier research published in 2019 on wildlife photography and the construction of the Great Barrier Reef as a modern visual spectacle, and combining art history with environmental history, this article also turns to coloured advertising lithographs. It argues that split-level visualisations separate human from non-human and elevate the idea of human superiority. With the Great Barrier Reef facing unprecedented ecological pressures, the historical images at the centre of this article are instructive for understanding the deleterious effects of anthropogenic impact, as well as early twentieth-century attitudes towards human–non-human relations.","PeriodicalId":41491,"journal":{"name":"Queensland Review","volume":"28 1","pages":"98 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46732774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Great Barrier Reef is inscribed on the World Heritage List for its natural values, including an abundance of marine life and extraordinary aesthetic qualities. These and the enormous scale of the Reef make it unique and a place of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’. In the twentieth century, protection of the Great Barrier Reef shifted from limiting mechanical and physical impacts on coral reefs to managing agricultural runoff from adjacent mainland to minimise environmental impacts. By the early twenty-first century, it was apparent that threats to the Great Barrier Reef were no longer a local issue. Global warming, more frequent extreme weather events and increased ocean temperatures have destroyed vast swathes of coral reefs. Conservation scientists have begun trialling radical new methods of reseeding areas of bleached coral and creating more resilient coral species. The future of the Great Barrier Reef may depend on genetically engineered corals, and reefs that are seeded, weeded and cultured. This article asks whether the Great Barrier Reef can remain a natural World Heritage site or whether it might become World Heritage in Danger as its naturalness is questioned.
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