by IMIT | Jul 20, 2017 | Information
NQ Dry Tropics has been working with enthusiastic volunteers to clean up and restore beach scrubs, one of our most important coastal communities. More than 40 hectares of weeds, including Weeds of National Significance, lantana, prickly pear and rubber vine has been...
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 8, 2017 | Information
Twenty-one local graziers will be recognised for setting the benchmark for industry this month when they receive their Grazing BMP accredited producer certificates at a gala dinner held in Townsville. The event marks the largest number of producers to be presented...
