Water Quality and Sugar

NQ Dry Tropics has a number of publications to help cane farmers improve water quality on their farms.

Reef Rescue ABCD Framework Brochure - Sugar

Driving on beaches is a popular activity in north Queensland for boaties, swimmers, and explorers.

Beaches in the Burdekin and Townsville regions are under increasing pressure from vehicle use.

Public safety concerns are also rising.

NQ Dry Tropics as a member of The Coastal Vehicle Management Steering Committee is working to reduce the impacts of vehicles on our beaches.

Animals

Coastal Birds of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

Freshwater Fishes of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

What am I, Native Frog or Cane Toad?

Woodland Birds of the Burdekin Dry Tropics

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Annual Report 2009/2010

Annual Community Report 2008/2009

The Suttor basin is a medium-sized basin, comprising just over 18,000 square kilometres.

The land is mostly used for grazing with a small proportion used for broad acre cereal cropping. Less than 1 per cent is used for conservation purposes.

The Cape Campaspe Basin is a medium sized basin and covers just over 20,000 square kilometres.

The land is mostly used for grazing, with just under a fifth set aside for conservation and minimal use – mostly as native vegetation.

Cape Campaspe Basin waterways are generally dry and sandy, with few permanent water bodies.

The Bowen Broken Bogie Basin is relatively small, covering just under 12,000 square kilometres.

The land is mostly used for grazing, with about a quarter used for conservation and minimal use. Most of this lies in the Broken River subcatchment.

In this Basin, waterways vary between largely sandy, dry short-lived creek systems to permanently flowing clear-water rivers and creeks that originate in mountain rainforest.

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.

The Lower Burdekin Basin is relatively small, covering just under 10,000 square kilometres.

The land is mostly used for grazing with about 12 per cent used for intensive agriculture such as irrigated sugar production. Another 9 per cent is used for conservation purposes.

The Upper Burdekin Basin is the largest in the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM region. It comprises over 40,000 square kilometres.

The land is mostly used for grazing with just over ten per cent used for conservation purposes. There are many abandoned and operational mines in this basin.

Waterways vary between largely sandy, dry short-lived creek systems to permanently flowing clear-water rivers and creeks that originate in mountain rainforest.