Volunteers improve waterways

Volunteers improve waterways

Volunteers improve waterways for a healthier Great Barrier Reef Community group volunteers across the Burdekin region are helping to protect the Great Barrier Reef by improving the health of local waterways through the NQ Dry Tropics’ Community Landcare Grants....
Clean Up Australia Day

Clean Up Australia Day

Community comes together for Clean Up Australia Day Recent rainfall did not dampen the spirits of one hundred community members who came together to remove 75 kg of rubbish from the Upper Ross River for Clean Up Australia Day.   The clean-up drew a crowd of...
Community improves habitat

Community improves habitat

A local project to improve endangered Beach Scrub vegetation at the Pocket along Horseshoe Bay Road in Bowen, has strengthened links between local groups, while improving important native habitat. The  joint project between NQ Dry Tropics, Whitsunday Regional Council,...
Community Landcare Grants 2015-16

Community Landcare Grants 2015-16

Community groups in the Burdekin Dry Tropics region will share just over $70,000 to deliver a range of local on-ground environmental projects, under NQ Dry Tropics’ Community Landcare Grants 2015-2016 programme. NQ Dry Tropics CEO, Dr Scott Crawford, thanked the...
Mundy Creek attracts community crowd

Mundy Creek attracts community crowd

Garbutt residents and local community groups came together on Saturday, 1 August, to link Landcare and Indigenous culture along Mundy Creek. Local Indigenous group – Grassroots Walk the Talk Collective together with Mundy Creek Environmental Arts Collective identified...