NQ Dry Tropics is supporting cane farmers’ involvement in Project Catalyst. The Project is about helping progressive farmers who are developing practices that improve the quality of water leaving farms.
Project Catalyst was born in the Mackay Whitsundays area by natural resource management group Reef Catchments and has expanded into north Queensland with the support of NQ Dry Tropics.
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.
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 black throated finch Poephila cincta was once distributed from northern New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula. These finches live in grassy woodlands dominated by eucalypts, melaleucas or acacias near water. They mostly eat seeds of grasses, and now survive principally on grazing lands where they build grass nests on branches and in hollows of trees.
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.
A group established by natural resource management body NQ Dry Tropics is helping to reduce the risks 4WDs, quad bikes and motorbikes pose to beach users, cultural sites and plants and animals.
Environmental impact and land management issues in central Queensland will be better represented thanks to a new addition to the local natural resource management group, NQ Dry Tropics.
Grazier Bruce Cobb has been appointed to the NQ Dry Tropics board to represent the Belyando Suttor region.
Bruce and his wife Samantha own a property called Mellaluka, 150 kilometres north west of Clermont. He is particularly interested in the development of mining in the area and how it will influence grazing and the community.
NQ Dry Tropics is supporting cane farmers’ involvement in Project Catalyst. The Project is about helping progressive farmers who are developing practices that improve the quality of water leaving farms.
The black throated finch Poephila cincta was once distributed from northern New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula. These finches live in grassy woodlands dominated by eucalypts, melaleucas or acacias near water. They mostly eat seeds of grasses, and now survive principally on grazing lands where they build grass nests on branches and in hollows of trees.
