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Rangelands

Rangeland describes land that is expansive and that hasn’t experienced a large amount of change from European settlement.

Australia’s outback is mainly rangeland country – that’s 80 per cent of our landscape – while more than 90 per cent of the area within NQ Dry Tropics is rangeland that’s privately owned or leased for cattle grazing.

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Paddock to Reef

It measures water quality.

The Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring Modelling and Reporting program monitors whether the funding improvements made by Reef Rescue and the Reef Protection Package are making significant enough improvements to our water.  

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Funding for Graziers

Water quality improvement grants

Applications are now open. Maximise your productivity with our water quality improvement grants. We can help you with funding to carry out gully and river fencing, fencing to land types and erosion control which not only improve your property but also benefit your wider community. Improving ground cover and keeping your soil on your property means your place will be more resilient during the dry season.

Funding is available for practices that reduce nutrients, sediments and pesticides leaving farms.

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Semi-rural landholders

Healthy Habitat funding and support

If you live in Black River, Hervey’s Range, Rupertswood, Jensen, Alice River, Brookhill, Oak Valley, Julago, Nome and Alligator Creek you may be eligible to receive up to $2,000 to improve your property through our Healthy Habitat project.  If you’ve already received money from the program, you will be eligible to apply again.

We will fund on-ground initiatives such as weed and pest animal management, planting of native vegetation, fire management and more. Just ask us if your activity is eligible for funding!

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Reef Plan

Improving water quality

There are a number of programs underway that are helping to make changes to the way farms are managed throughout the catchments adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef.

These initiatives are helping to reduce run-off from agricultural land into waterways that flow out into the marine environment.

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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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Funding and support

Helping you look after your backyard

NQ Dry Tropics funds a range of environmental activities within the Burdekin dry tropics region. We currently offer funding and support for the following groups:

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