rural

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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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

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Creating a Property Management Plan

Property management plans act as business plans and are useful for keeping track of natural resources on properties, property design and management practices.

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Delbessie Ready

The Delbessie Agreement is a new arrangement of leasing land in Queensland.

Most grazing properties throughout the state are leased and the leases used to be renewed automatically every 30 years. The Queensland Government wants to reward good landholders by offering longer term leases to those who met environmental and social benchmarks.

In 2007, it signed an agreement with rural lobby group Agforce and the Australian Rainforest Conservation Society on a Hughenden property called Delbessie, cementing a new leasehold strategy.

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Groundwater

The quality and amount of groundwater in our region has been identified as an issue central to our region.

NQ Dry Tropics has been working with a number of organisations in the region to gather groundwater information.

What is groundwater?
When rain falls to the ground, the water does not stop moving. Some of it flows along the surface to streams or lakes, some of it is used by plants, some evaporates and returns to the atmosphere, and some sinks into the ground.

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Land Management

NQ Dry Tropics has a history of working with land managers.

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