Welcome to CAFNEC Marine Response Team’s official supporter page! We will be sharing news, the latest science and everything you need to know about protecting our marine life and the activities of the CAFNEC Marine Response Team. Our fish, dolphins, dugongs, turtles and corals face a daunting range of threats but we can make a positive difference. The Marine Response Team will take proact
ive action to educate the public and decision makers and prevent threats. We will respond to existing threats by awareness raising, direct activities to protect and restore threatened habitat and facilitating community involvement in decision making. We are hands on and seek to build a fun and dynamic team of like minded people who are prepared to give their time and help others to take action for our sea life. This page is for you, our supporters, and we encourage open and constructive participation but please keep it clean. Remember the diversity we have in our group means our page is read and used by all kinds of people, including young families. Before posting something, please consider the impact that your comments may have on others, or their interests. Comments that will be removed and may see you banned from the page include any post that is in breach of our guiding principles of politeness, respect, safety, non-commerciality, confidentiality and legal compliance. CAFNEC Marine Response Team will be the sole determiner of whether a post, or user, should be removed from the page. If removed from the site, CAFNEC Marine Response Team is under no obligation to provide justification. If a post or user is removed for any reason other than a breach of non-commerciality, we will endeavour to contact the poster concerned, and will identify the reason for the removal. CAFNEC Marine Response Team does not have any obligation to respond to posts and messages, although we will endeavour to do so where a response is appropriate and necessary. Finally, while we always endeavour to share content from credible/reputable sources, the appearance of external links on this page does not constitute official endorsement on behalf of the CAFNEC Marine Team or our team members. Now that you’ve read the boring bit, head to our timeline to check up on what’s been happening recently. Remember, this is your page, so be sure to let us know if you want to see more (or less) of anything! The best way to do this is with a like or a share :-)
Want to know more? We recommend reading our full posting guidelines below before posting or commenting on our site. Hope you enjoy our page! From the CAFNEC Marine Response Team
Meeting details - ALL WELCOME
Meetings: Fortnightly Tuesdays 5.30-7.30.
27-27 Greenslopes St Manunda. Meeting dates coming up:
Tues 11 April 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Tues 25th April 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Tues 9th May 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Tues 23rd May 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Tues 6th May 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Tues 20th June 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Tuesday 4th July 5.30 - 7.30 pm.. and so on : )
POSTING GUIDELINES
We recommend all users read these guidelines prior to posting or commenting on our site. This page is for all who are involved, or interested in, the work of the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) Marine Response Team.
---Consider the impact of what you post---
We encourage all our volunteers and supporters to participate on our page however before posting something, please consider the impact that your posting may have on others – for example, CAFNEC Marine Team members and supporters – and on the team’s reputation and brand, and its obligations to individuals, to partner organisations and to the community at large.
---Our guiding principles---
Accordingly, in order to make this page a resource that we can all be proud of and we can all benefit from, we ask that those who post on our page be self-moderating and respectful of the guiding principles of politeness, respect, safety, non-commerciality, confidentiality and legal compliance. The goal of our social media strategy is to offer Cairns and Far North communities the opportunity to learn about, and become involved in the conservation of, our local marine environment. Please remember our team members are people too, who are certainly not perfect and who do sometimes make mistakes. Let's stay focused on working together and continually improving our approach and resources to achieve better conservation outcomes for the local marine environment.
---Views expressed on our page---
In providing this platform for the exchange of information and opinions, CAFNEC Marine Response Team is not explicitly or implicitly endorsing the views expressed in posts on this page, nor does the organisation have any responsibility or accountability for such material. CAFNEC Marine Response Team does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the information that appears on this page, and any reliance our readers place on it is strictly at their own risk.
---Non-compliant postings: our duty---
We have a duty to ensure that this page is at all times a safe, encouraging and compliant environment. CAFENC Marine Response Team operates a moderation policy to ensure that comments are appropriate and not harmful to others and to the interests of others. CAFNEC Marine Response Team reserves the right to remove by hiding or deleting:
• unauthorised posts which advertise non-CAFNEC products, services or events, (see below);
• posts which include obscene, indecent, offensive, harassing, threatening or vilifying content or language;
• posts which include gratuitously explicit content;
• posts which include personal information that may infringe the privacy or safety of individuals;
• posts which are explicitly commercial in nature, in that they promote businesses or money-making ventures unrelated to the organisation;
• posts which are non-constructive or excessively critical of service users, team members, CAFNEC or related Government policy;
• posts which may be defamatory or which may create significant risk for individuals or for the organisation as a whole;
• posts which are in violation of law, including libel, or which condone or encourage illegal activity, or which infringe copyright, or constitute a contempt of court, or which breach a court order (including suppression order), or are otherwise unlawful;
• posts which may contain content – text or images or video material – which is not their own property and is not “labelled for non-commercial reuse” or otherwise identified as being re-useable on a rights-free basis
• and posts which for any other reasons may be deemed illegal, inappropriate or harmful to individuals or to the organisation. Response and removal
CAFNEC Marine Response Team does not have any obligation to respond to posts and messages, although we will endeavour to do so where a response is appropriate and necessary. CAFNEC Marine Response Team will be the sole determiner of whether a post should be removed. If a post is removed for any reason other than that it represents or contains advertising, we will endeavour to contact the poster concerned, and will identify the reason for the removal of their post.
---Advertising requests---
If you wish to post information on the CAFNEC Marine Response Team page about a product, service or event that you consider may be of interest to our readers, and you are satisfied that your material is compliant with Facebook’s published advertising guidelines, please message us, using the ‘Message’ button on the right-hand side of our timeline header. Please note that CAFNEC Marine Response Team will not be under any obligation to respond to such messages nor to give explanation for approving or failing to approve a requested posting.
---Thank you---
Thank you for making the time and effort to read our posting guidelines. From the CAFNEC Marine Response Team
