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Our Rivers

Removing fish barriers

Spangled PerchBarriers to fish movement represent a key threat to fish populations in our region.

Many of Australia's native freshwater fishes need to move in order to breed and survive.  Structures such as dams, weirs, causeways and road culverts can act like road blocks, preventing fishes from moving upstream. Even a small drop of 20cm over a causeway can stop fishes moving upstream.

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Belyando Basin

The Belyando basin is very large, covering just over 35,000 square kilometres.

The land is mostly used for grazing and broad acre cereal cropping. A small part of the land used for conservation purposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Rivers to Reefs

The rivers and streams of the NQ Dry Tropics region drain a tremendous diversity of tropical landscapes: semi-arid dry lands, wooded grasslands, mountainous tropical rainforests, coastal plains and wetlands.

They then flow to the Great Barrier Reef.

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