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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
