For the last decade
NQ DRY TROPICS
has been working with people to
improve our environment

In the last five years
we have helped graziers install
136 watering points to
protect waterways

Improved
130,000 hectares
of grazing land in the
Burdekin region

Protected
104,000 hectares
of wildlife corridors

Improved the environmental sustainability of
40,000 hectares
of sugar, fruit and vegetable farms

Protected
25 hectares
of coastal vegetation

Reduced the use of fertiliser on
20,000 hectares of farmland near the
Great Barrier Reef

Improved
the quality of soil on
15,000 hectares
of land in the dry tropics region

We have removed barriers
to fish movement along
5,000 kilometres
of creeks and rivers

We have helped over
90 families in semi-urban areas
to protect native plants in their backyard

quality

Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan

The Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan aims to reduce the sediment and agricultural chemicals going into creeks, rivers and the ocean.

The Plan is detailed in a comprehensive book for landholders and stakeholders interested in water quality in the Burdekin. It looks at the current condition of the region’s 48 sub-catchments and the best management practices for grazing and sugar lands within these.

It also lists targets and priorities such as by 2018, 80% of sugar land has best practice herbicide management.

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Coastal Agriculture

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

Terrific response for reef money

5 March 2010

North Queensland agricultural property owners are improving the way they doing things.

One farmer is using the backyard method of composting to replace fertilisers; others are fencing off riverbanks, modifying machinery and finding unusual ways of killing weeds.

It’s all to improve the quality of water going into the Great Barrier Reef.

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Bowen Broken Bogie Basin

Resource Condition Summary

The Bowen Broken Bogie Basin is relatively small (~ 11,730 sq. km.) and covers around 9% of the BWQIP region. Common to most of the BQWIP basins, land use is dominated by grazing on natural pastures. However, approximately 24% of the land area is set aside for conservation and minimal use, most of which lies within the Broken River subcatchment.

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Explore the Catchment

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Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan Catchment Atlas

The Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan Catchment Atlas is a 148 page document that provides detailed information about the six individual basins and the 48 subcatchments found within the Burdekin dry tropics catchment region.

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