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 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...
by IMIT | Dec 1, 2016 | Information, Wetlands
A much-needed culvert upgrade is underway at Lilliesmere Lagoon, which could increase fish stocks by supporting them to breed, and also help deliver irrigation water to farmers more efficiently. NQ Dry Tropics is working with Lower Burdekin Water to install fishways...
by IMIT | Nov 7, 2016 | Information, Wetlands
Community groups in the Burdekin Dry Tropics region will share in over $110,000 to deliver a range of local on-ground environmental projects under the 2016-2017 NQ Dry Tropics Community Landcare Grants Programme. NQ Dry Tropics CEO, Dr Scott Crawford, thanked the...
by IMIT | Nov 4, 2016 | Community Event, Wetlands
Forty volunteers collect 50kg rubbish in two hours in Great Northern Clean Up A microphone, a basketball, a dozen thongs, and a seemingly endless number of plastic bottles and cigarette butts – these are examples of just some of the rubbish found and removed from the...
by IMIT | Aug 5, 2016 | Community Event, Wetlands
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....
