by IMIT | Jan 25, 2017 | Information
Graziers to design land condition, pasture cover and productivity solutions A new multi-million dollar natural resource management program will give graziers from the Bowen, Broken and Bogie (BBB) River catchments the opportunity to say how projects to improve land...
by IMIT | Jan 11, 2017 | Information
New funding package worth $11.8 million to support cane farmers and the Reef Burdekin and Wet Tropics sugar cane farmers can bid for funding of up to $500,000 to reduce nitrogen levels in water leaving their farms and entering the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon. The...
by IMIT | Jan 10, 2017 | Information, Wetlands
New project to revitalise Horseshoe Lagoon and protect the Reef Graziers, cane farmers, and community groups came together in Giru last week to find out how a new NQ Dry Tropics project will improve the health of Horseshoe Lagoon, local wetlands and the Great Barrier...
by IMIT | Dec 12, 2016 | Information
Charters Towers workshop focuses on landscape regeneration More than 30 graziers and growers attended a two-day workshop at Wambiana Station near Charters Towers last week that focused on regenerating and restoring production landscapes. Renowned agrarian expert...
by IMIT | Dec 5, 2016 | Community Event, Wetlands
Plastic shopping bags, drinks bottles, crab pots, bicycle tyres and a bollard were just some of the items that filled more than 20 large sacks of rubbish on Saturday during a community clean up of popular fishing spot Aplins Weir. More than thirty dedicated locals...