Working Wetlands help to remove pollutants
The Working Wetlands in the Burdekin Delta project, funded by the Australian Government’s Reef Trust, will use a whole-of-system ‘treatment train’ approach to restore three wetland systems, while improving water quality flowing to the Great Barrier Reef. Watercourses in the Burdekin Delta are working wetlands whose natural ecological and agricultural values are inextricably linked. They […]
Regional Pest Management Group
The cost to communities — especially in rural areas — from feral pests and weeds is enormous. In 2025, the estimated bill came in at more than $600m in Queensland. The Burdekin Dry Tropics Regional Pest Management Group (RPMG) exists to try to reduce that problem. It leads a broad range of biosecurity activities, including […]
Climate-Resilient Rangelands
The Climate-Resilient Rangelands project will build on nearly a decade of work to improve the condition and long-term resilience of landscapes in the Einasleigh Uplands near Charters Towers. The Einasleigh Uplands bioregion, spanning the north-west of the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM region, is a nationally-listed biodiversity hotspot at risk from threats including pests, weeds, wildfires […]
Climate-Ready Coastlines
The Climate-Ready Coastlines in the Lower Burdekin project will protect coastal and wetland ecosystems by reducing the threat of weeds, pests, and bushfires. Project activities will focus on improving fish migration, and the condition of wetlands, streambanks, coastal zones and beach scrub. The project will build on the achievements of previous NQ Dry Tropics projects in the […]
Gurambilbarra Town Common Wetlands project
NQ Dry Tropics is partnering with Wulgurukaba Traditional Owners and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) to restore health to a Townsville freshwater coastal wetland system popular with nature lovers, hikers, cyclists and birdos. The $1.1 million Gurambilbarra Town Common Wetlands project aims to improve the wetland system habitat for wader birds such as brolgas […]
Nurturing Northern hairy-nosed wombats project
NQ Dry Tropics leads the Nurturing Northern hairy-nosed wombat project in central Queensland aimed at preventing the extinction of the critically endangered species. To prevent its extinction, conservationists must work with the small population remaining — about 400 animals contained within the Epping Forest National Park (Scientific) near Clermont. There are also translocated starter populations […]
Bolstering the Brigalow project
Landholders in the Suttor River catchment are working with NQ Dry Tropics on brigalow conservation to protect and improve remnant patches of the Threatened Ecological Communities on their properties. Brigalow is the name for communities of the distinctive silver-leafed Acacia harpophylla that together form an open forest or woodland. Brigalow was notorious with early settlers for being […]