The Bugle - 18 March 2005
In news this week
- 2005 Community Activity Grants winners
- QFF and RGC climate change forum update
- National Landcare Program (NLP) workshop
2005 Community Activity Grants winners
44 Queensland community groups have been successful in gaining a share in the 2005 Community Natural Resource Awareness Activity Grants. The successful groups are spread through out Queensland - from as far west as Mount Isa down to Tenterfield on the Queensland/New South Wales border - the distribution of the successful groups per region are listed below:
- Burdekin Dry Tropics - 4
- Burnett Mary - 5
- Condamine Alliance - 5
- Fitzroy Basin - 2
- FNQ NRM (Wet Tropics) - 4
- Mackay Whitsunday - 2
- Queensland Murray Darling - 4
- South East Queensland - 16
- Southern Gulf Catchments - 1
- South West NRM - 1
The theme for this year's grants program is Bridging our Communities-Water for Life and was influenced by the United Nations' declaration of the International Decade of Water from 2005-2015. Groups applying for the Grants were asked to center their projects around this theme, allowing them to concentrate on water concerns and activities in their communities and to increase people's understanding of the urgent need to use water more efficiently. The projects will be conducted by the end May this year, with the majority occurring during Queensland Resources Week from 22-29 May.
For more information on the grants, contact the grants coordinator on 3239 3860.
QFF and RGC climate change forum update
Registrations are still being taken for the Acclimatising Agriculture for Climate Change: Minimising risks and maximising opportunities forum being held in Brisbane on 8 April. The forum will be co-hosted by the Queensland Farmers' Federation (QFF) and the Regional Groups Collective (RGC) and will explore a range of issues faced by the agricultural sector in responding and adapting to climate change.
Further information on the forum is available from Doug Parsons, RGC, on 3211 4412. For a more detailed agenda please contact Nigel Kimball, QFF, on 3837 4747.
National Landcare Program (NLP) workshop
NLP facilitators, Australian and Queensland (from Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries and Natural Resources and Mines) Government and the RGC and Queensland Water and Land Carers representatives will meet in Brisbane on 31 March and 1 April 2005 for a National Landcare Program Community Support Facilitators workshop.
The objectives for the two-day workshop will include how to provide better service to our landcare and sustainable agriculture volunteer groups and to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of NLP in Queensland.
For more information contact Tony McKew, Queensland State Landcare Coordinator, on 3620 3807.
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Last updated 23 January 2008