by IMIT | Jul 12, 2017 | Information, Wetlands
A recently-completed NQ Dry Tropics project focused on cane farms in the Lower Burdekin has shown that productivity and environmental benefits can go hand-in-hand. The Queensland Government-funded Landscape Resilience project used monitoring techniques to provide...
by IMIT | Jul 7, 2017 | Information
Determined to embrace positive management practice change, Kale and Karin Robinson, of Hillsborough Station, are working to improve pasture on their Ravenswood grazing property to achieve a sustainable and profitable enterprise. Since taking over the property two...
by IMIT | Jun 29, 2017 | Information
Burdekin sugar cane growers are finding innovative ways to improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef by minimising water run-off from their properties. The Burdekin is the engine room of Queensland’s sugar industry, producing between 8-9 million tonnes of sugar...
by IMIT | Jun 23, 2017 | Information
A member of NQ Dry Tropics’ Landholders Driving Change project team has described how graziers’ ideas are being developed into a program of actions to tackle gully erosion and improve land management practices. Jane Waterhouse, a water quality scientist at James Cook...
by IMIT | Jun 21, 2017 | Community Event
Cool lesson on ‘cool burns’ at workshop Residents and landholders of the Woodstock/Majors Creek region received a cool lesson on cool burns at a “Fire as a Tool for Conservation and Land Management” workshop held on Saturday. Workshop organiser, NQ Dry Tropics project...