The Bugle - 08 June 2007
In news this week
Regional NRM group stories
- Mapping weeds of the future
- World Environment Day – The way forward for climate change
- Mualgal elders applying for an Envirofund application
- Searching for ghosts in the Torres Straits
- Go web-surfing and visit cyberbeach in Mackay-Whitsunday
- Climate workshops chart course for changes in SEQ
- Central Queensland battles salinity problem
- JSC visits the Burdekin
- Funding to support biodiversity network
- Environmental projects funds provided by ARC Linkage program
- New chairman for Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council's Community Advisory Committee
- Queensland Government invests in a climate smart future
- Investing in healthy waterways
- Survey teams seek community help to re-discover Queensland's heritage
- QPWS steps up feral pig management
- Calliope river water plan released for public comment
- Burn offs to minimise danger
- First state-wide workshop held for NRM education
- Register for the Society for Conservation Biology conference
- 2007 Queensland Landcare Conference - Making a Difference
- Horticulture saves on water
- CRC Weed Publications Catalogue 2007 out now
- NT likely to get nuclear waste dump
- Get a job in NRM!
Regional NRM group stories
Mapping weeds of the future
MAP-based predictive modelling for infestations by two environmental weeds (lantana and blackberry) is being developed for the Condamine River catchment to assist in the development of a catchment-wide weed management program involving local government.
Condamine Alliance is investing $105,000 in the development of fine-scale mapping and the extraction of natural resource information, using the Alliance’s SPOT5 satellite imagery of the catchment, in a partnership with the University of Southern Queensland.
The university’s Spatial Analysis and Modelling Group, in the Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments, will look at the weeds’ distribution attributes and corresponding bio-physical factors, such as land disturbance, soil and bedrock geology to map infestation patterns.
Condamine Alliance’s NRM Delivery Manager Penny Hamilton said, “this project aims to enhance the catchment-wide weed management approach proposed by the Alliance, which is funding a joint weed management process for three participating shires, with the ultimate goal of integrated weed management across local government in the catchment.”
It may be difficult to identify some weed infestations from satellite imagery due to canopy cover obscuring the weed’s signature, but it is hoped some weeds are more easily identified and already have spectral signatures identified through other research.
For more information contact Penny Hamilton on 4620 0107.
World Environment Day – The way forward for climate change
Professor Robert (Bob) Miles, co-founder of the Australian National Climate Centre, was the key note speaker at a public forum addressing the Challenges of Climate Change for North Queensland.
Sponsored by Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management (BDTNRM) and hosted by Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare (CDTL), the climate change Forum addressed the local effects of climate change and how to make a difference. The Forum was held on World Environment Day, 5 June in Townsville.
Dr Scott Crawford of BDTNRM said, “Professor Miles discussed the possible effects of Climate Change on North Queensland at the River Management Workshop, hosted by BDTNRM and Alluvium Consulting Queensland, earlier this year. People attending the workshop were eager to have Professor Miles return to Townsville and speak to a broader audience. This event provides that critical opportunity.”
Chairperson of CDTL Ms Sari Mangru said, “As the largest urban Landcare group in North Queensland we believe it is essential for the greater community to have a better understanding of the likely impacts of climate change on people’s day-to-day lives and our environment. CDTLI is also interested in any adaptive measures that we, as a community, can undertake to lessen our impact on the planet.”
BDTNRM saw World Environment Day as an ideal opportunity to remind the community of ways we can tackle climate change in our own region.
For more information visit BDTNRM website, email Deb Cavanagh or phone on 4724 3544.
Mualgal elders applying for an Envirofund application
The Mualgal elders have been working with the Torres Strait region’s Regional Facilitator and Community Liaison Officer and Dr Bruno David of Monash University to develop a funding application for a project to protect rock art sites on Mua island from damage by feral pigs.
The application was submitted under the latest round of Envirofund. If successful, the project will commence in August or September of this year.
The Regional Facilitator and Community Liaison Officer has also been in contact with the Indigenous Heritage Division of the Department of Environment and Water Resources in relation to possible future support they can offer for cultural heritage protection, with surveys and regional approaches for management in Torres Strait.
For more information about the Land and Sea Management Unit visit the TSRA website.
Searching for ghosts in the Torres Straits
The Torres Strait Islands Marine Debris project is funded by the Natural Heritage Trust. It has two main tasks, firstly conducting aerial surveys of ghost nets, marine debris and inter-tidal areas of the Torres Strait shorelines, and secondly developing and implementing a community-based program for monitoring and clean-up activities.
This project is delivered in collaboration with the Northern Gulf Resource Management Group, through the Carpentaria Ghost Nets Program and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (Seagrass Watch), who are working with the Land and Sea Management Unit’s Regional NRM Facilitator to support ranger groups from the Kaiwalagal Region (Horn and Hammond Islands) to deliver the project.
The rangers have recently participated in training programs with Seagrass Watch Coordinator Dr Jane Mellors. The training focused on identification and monitoring techniques for sea grasses. Rangers also participated in a communication workshop through the Carpentaria Ghost Nets Program.
The winner of last years recycling and reusing ghost nets engineering competition will be visiting the Torres Strait to conduct workshops and provide assistance with community enterprise development.
For more information about the Land and Sea Management Unit visit the TSRA website.
Go web-surfing and visit cyberbeach in Mackay-Whitsunday
The Mackay Whitsunday NRM Group’s Nicola Wright is very proud of their new website.
Nicola’s concept was to use images from the region’s 250km of coastline to bring the website to life. Nicola said she wanted a wow factor for the site’s imagery so she employed the graphic designing talents of Gavin Ryan, who as a North Queenslander, knows the environment and he has captured a sense of the region's land and seascapes in the artwork for the website.
The new site creates a place on the web where the world can visit the home of this small but industrious group of NRM facilitators in central Queensland and Nicola is inviting anyone with a NRM interest to surf the new web-beachscape.
‘Cane farms with blue heelers, platypus with clean-water futures, turtles, brahmans and a ‘rogue’s gallery’ of staff and committee members all reside at http://www.mwnrm.org.au
For more information email Nicola Wright or call 4953 3864.
Climate workshops chart course for changes in SEQ
SEQ Catchments and the University of the Sunshine Coast have run three successful workshops to help enable the community to adapt to climatic changes.
SEQ Catchments CEO Simon Warner said “Adaptation to changing climatic conditions needs to be mainstreamed into local and regional decision making and planning.”
In terms of evaluating possible adaptations to climate change, one problem faced by decision makers is how to separate the risks from present, natural climatic variations and extremes from those associated with future induced changes in climate. To help solve this problem, at each of the workshops Associate Professor Richard Warrick from Waikato University successfully demonstrated the SimCLIM system which simulates both temporally and spatially the impacts of both climate variability and change.
The three workshops were conducted as a part of the SEQ Climate Change Adaptation Demonstration Project which has audited the available of SEQ data for producing meaningful projections. It has recommended finer scale Digital Elevation Models and denser rainfall and temperature measurements be sought to improve the scale of regional modelling available.
Pilot models are being run in SEQ for assessing NRM assets and risks and regional climate change adaptation knowledge will be incorporated into the review of the SEQ Regional NRM Plan.
SEQ Catchments is working with the Climate Change Centre of Excellence to co-ordinate efforts and ensure that the SEQ community is not confused by a plethora of different approaches.
For further information visit the SEQ Catchments website.
Central Queensland battles salinity problem
Central Queensland land managers, catchment groups and the Queensland Government have joined forces to fight salinity through a new assessment project.
Natural Resources and Water Minister Craig Wallace said Departmental officers, in conjunction with the Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA) and the CSIRO, were finalising a 12-month project in the Fitzroy Basin which identified areas at risk from salinity.
Department of Natural Resources and Water (NRW) Senior Land Resources Officer Bruce Forster said NRW scientists compiled a series of data sets with information on ground water levels, landform, soil, climate and existing salinity before running sophisticated models with the data to help determine areas at risk.
The FBA has a salinity program which focuses on reducing the amount of land in the Fitzroy Basin at risk from future salinity impacts and to address current salinity outbreaks. It provides a strategic and prioritised approach to managing current known outbreaks and rising groundwater, while developing the knowledge base to determine where investment in prevention will have the greatest return.
For more information visit the FBA website.
First state-wide workshop held for NRM education
Recently Far North Queensland NRM (FNQ NRM) hosted the first workshop on regional NRM environmental education initiatives and programs across Queensland.
This two day workshop supported by the Department of Natural Resources and Water was attended by 20 education officers from regional bodies, industries and state government.
Topics discussed at the workshop included the highly successful FNQ NRM’s ‘Community in the Classroom’ and the Queensland Murray Darling Committee’s ‘Discovering Landcare Forum’.
Fitzroy Basin Association’s Education Officer Glyni Cumming said “I have certainly gained a much clearer understanding that Natural Resource Management groups need to establish successful education partnerships if they wish to raise public awareness about sustainable land use with the younger generation.”
Government updates
JSC visits the Burdekin
On the 24-25 May the Joint Australian and Queensland Governments Steering Committee (JSC) met in the Burdekin Dry Tropics Region at Townsville.
After a successful meeting on the first day, the second day involved a field trip for JSC members, visiting on ground projects from across the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM (BDT NRM) region.
A highlight of the field trip was the evaluation of alternative irrigation systems for a greener future, where field trials are underway comparing three main irrigation applications: furrow, overhead low pressure and drip systems
The group also visited the Townsville Town Common to see a restoration of seasonal wetlands project which is using patch ‘burning’ or ‘burning plus grazing’ methods to decrease a weed infestation and restore the growth of wild rice and bulkura, two food species important for wetland birds.
They also saw a capacity building project for Traditional Owners to develop and continually upgrade skills to manage cultural heritage information and increase land management knowledge for NRM.
The trip was a great opportunity for BDT NRM to show the JSC their regions’ assets and the type of NRM projects they are targeting. The JSC enjoyed seeing first hand the successful projects in the region and meeting the representatives who are working towards sustainable resource management.
The JSC has two more meetings planned for this calendar year:
- Meeting 33 28-29 Aug 07 in Brisbane;
- Meeting 34 15-16 Nov 07 with a region to be selected.
The JSC members, representatives and staff express their gratitude to BDT NRM.
Funding to support biodiversity network
The Australian Government will provide $5.5 million to support the development of a national network for Australian biodiversity. The network will aim to accelerate research and discovery of Australia’s biodiversity.
The network will be led by Dr Judy West and coordinated by the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research in Canberra. Scientists, universities, museums and government agencies in the network will deliver web-based tools to provide information and assist with identification of small terrestrial mammals, reptiles, invertebrates and weeds.
The funding will be provided through the $100 million Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Program.
The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Malcolm Turnbull said the research hub could become a “global leader in delivering web-based information on taxonomy, and moving towards the creation of a ‘one stop shop’ for assessing key information on Australia’s biodiversity.”
He said it would also address the decline in Australia’s taxonomic research capacity by providing opportunities for student training and engaging early career scientists.
Please visit Environment website for the full article.
Environmental projects funds provided by ARC Linkage program
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced $60 million over five years to 217 industry-focused research projects to commence this year under the Linkage Projects funding scheme, with a significant amount of funding being directed towards environmental research.
Sixty-four collaborative research projects have been funded in the latest round. These include, weeds research to make herbicide applications more effective and research to minimise the risk of acid runoff and metal seepage into rivers and groundwater in northern Australia.
Also successful in obtaining funding was the Growing Sustainable Regions: Developing a Rural Statistical Sustainability Framework in which the Condamine Alliance is a key partner.
For the full list of projects, visit the ARC website.
New chairman for Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council's Community Advisory Committee
The Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Malcolm Turnbull, has announced Mr Lee O'Brien will be replacing Mr Myles Treseder as chairman of the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council's Community Advisory Committee
Mr O'Brien is Chairman of the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority and a member of the Australian Landcare Council and his local Landcare group (Alma Par/Pleasant Hills).
The Community Advisory Committee advises the Basin’s Ministerial Council on critical NRM issues and is an important conduit of information between the community and Ministers.
Please visit Environment website for the full article.
Queensland Government invests in a climate smart future
Queensland's $414 million climate change strategy ClimateSmart 2050 lays out the Government's plan to lower the greenhouse gas emissions being generated by communities and industry.
This new funding brings Queensland's contribution to the fight against climate change to $1.3 billion. ($414 new money plus $300 million committed by the Queensland Government and $600 million committed by the coal industry to the Clean Coal Fund).
Premier Peter Beattie said "If the Queensland Government did not take action on greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector, Queensland would be emitting 63.7 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere by 2020.”
"By implementing this plan we project we can reduce emissions by about 34 per cent to 50.9 million tonnes by 2020,” Mr Beattie said.
The report provides assistance, targets, and a plan of action for every part of Queensland. ClimateSmart 2050 outlines a diverse range of short, medium and long term actions that the Government is committing to delivering now to make our environment cleaner.
"I would urge all Queenslanders to take the time to read the plan and to provide comment," Mr Beattie said.
The strategy can be read at the Premier's climate change website page.
Investing in healthy waterways
The Queensland Government is investing $20 million over the next four years on new initiatives to improve water quality in south-east Queensland as a contribution to south-east Queensland’s Healthy Waterways Strategy 2007-2012.
Funding will focus on practical projects to reduce rural and urban pollution, restore degraded waterways and improve waterway health into the future.
It will help to reduce the decline in water quality, reverse the rising trend of pollution reaching our waterways and combat the predicted increase in pollution that accompanies urban expansion.
By acting now it will help ensure south-east Queensland’s economy and lifestyle is not affected by declining water quality. This commitment would fund new initiatives such as practical waterway restoration projects in high-risk catchments like the Lockyer River where currently experts are working with landowners to address the key causes of pollution.
Land owners are working to stabilise erosion from stream banks, gullies and hill-slopes, and restore riparian vegetation and wetlands.
Other high-risk catchments contributing sediment and nutrient loads to Moreton Bay, such as the Bremer and Logan Rivers, will also be the focus for investment in soil erosion control, restoration of degraded waterways and sustainable land use practices.
This investment complements the SEQ Regional Water Supply Strategy, State Infrastructure Plan and Program and the SEQ Regional Natural Resource Management Plan.
For the full media article visit the Queensland Government’s media statements website.
Survey teams seek community help to re-discover Queensland's heritage
As part of a three-year, $2.7 million state wide review of heritage places being conducted in stages across all areas of Queensland the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a series of workshops in Atherton, Malanda and Milla Milla to identify and protect significant cultural heritage places in these areas.
This is an opportunity for people living in these communities to engage with heritage specialists and local government to help discover and identify their special places and nominate them for Queensland heritage listing.
Environment Minister Lindy Nelson-Carr said "locals are the experts at identifying places which may hold cultural heritage value in their area, because they have lived in or near these places, or know the stories that have been passed on from family, friends or local historians.”
The EPA survey team based in Cairns will be working in the Far North region until early 2008. Sessions in Johnstone, Cardwell, Cook, Douglas, Herberton and Mareeba will take place later in the year.
Further information regarding the state wide survey or the community sessions, can be obtained by contacting Mellissa Green at the EPA on 4046 6753.
People can also provide details of a heritage place by visiting the EPA’s website.
QPWS steps up feral pig management
The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (QPWS) is stepping up its feral pig management program with a three-month trial to remove feral pigs from the Wet Tropics area from Innisfail to Ingham.
An Expression of Interest has asked contractors to carry out the trial from 1 August until 31 October which, according to experts, is the peak time for feral pig activity.
The program is designed to capture, humanely destroy and remove pigs from the protected area estate. The additional trapping will complement feral pig management activities already undertaken by QPWS staff.
QPWS is aware of reports of increased numbers of feral pigs in some local areas and the trial control program will help to provide further data about feral pig numbers.
QPWS is committed to working in partnership with the community and it has and will continue to be, actively involved in community-based feral pig trapping programs.
QPWS recently acquired an additional 20 traps which it lends free of charge to primary producers near its estates. This is in addition to the 17 traps already available.
For the full media article visit the Queensland Government’s media statements website.
Calliope river water plan released for public comment
The Calliope River Basin Draft Resource Operations Plan has been released for public comment and the plan is a major step forward in ensuring the future sustainable allocation and management of water resources in the Calliope area.
The release of the draft Resource Operations Plan is the first phase in implementing the Calliope River Basin Water Resource Plan, which was finalised in December 2006.
The draft plan proposes that 5,000 megalitres of unallocated water will be made available for all purposes in the Calliope River Basin and an additional 500 megalitres of unallocated water for town water supplies.
Department of Natural Resources and Water (NRW) Director-General Scott Spencer said the plan would also implement metering arrangements to measure the volumes taken under water licences within the plan area.
Further information on the draft plan can be found on the NRW website or by calling the Rockhampton office on 1800 822 100.
Burn offs to minimise danger
State and local government agencies will join forces over the coming weeks for hazard-reduction burning on unallocated state land.
The Department of Natural Resources and Water (NRW) is working with local councils and the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service to organise burns as part of its pro-active approach to fire management.
Minister for Natural Resources and Water, Craig Wallace, said the primary purpose of planned burns was to reduce large quantities of dry grass and to minimise the risk of wildfires.
“Weather wise, this is a perfect time to start these operations, the cool overnight temperatures produce enough dew to dampen the ground and retard fire spread," Mr Wallace said.
The project co-ordinator advises residents with respiratory problems to take adequate precautions.
Residents bordering state land as well as others who may be affected by smoke from the hazard-reduction burns will be notified. Fire crews will try hard to minimise the inconvenience, but in the end this program is essential.
This is a proactive way of reducing the risk wildfires pose to our communities and infrastructure.
Reef updates
New study shows farming impacts on reef health
Oceanographer Dr Guy Marion says Queensland’s coastline is one of the most intensively farmed regions bordering a coral reef and a new study shows farming in coastal areas near the Great Barrier Reef has killed off inshore reefs and boosted algal growth.
Dr Guy Marion of the University of Queensland is the research team spokesman for the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS).
Dr Marion's team tested coral core samples from the Mackay area for sediments and nutrients. The samples taken from hundreds of years of coral growth showed two major impacts, one corresponding with land clearing for cane farming in the late 19th century and a second corresponding with a jump in the use of fertilisers in the mid-20th century. The samples also showed that periodic flooding and cyclones had an effect on the reef.
Dr Marion said widespread areas of inshore reefs were either dying or covered in algae, indicating a chronic excess of nutrients and a large increase in fertiliser derived nutrients. One way to halt the damage is to allow vegetation to regrow along river banks and to keep areas of rainforest between cane farms.
This study had implications for Australia and other parts of the world, Dr Marion concluded.
To learn what is being done to hault and reverse the flow of sediments, nutrients and chemicals into the Great bariier Reef lagoon, visit the Reef Plan website.
Divers to monitor the Reef
Dive tourism operators will play a greater role in protecting the Great Barrier Reef by monitoring its health. In a program called Eye on the Reef, operators from Cairns, Port Douglas and the Whitsundays will check climate change, spawning activity and coral diseases and bleaching.
"The Great Barrier Reef is the best-managed coral reef in the world but it's under threat from many pressures, climate change included," Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said while launching the project in Cairns.
For the past 10 years a handful of dive operators in Cairns and Port Douglas have been involved in a trial of the program, collecting and logging data each time they visit a reef.
Mr Turnbull announced the expanded project would involve 40 tourism operators.
The data collected will be passed on to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and used by researchers at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, James Cook University and University of Queensland.
Please visit Environment website for the full article
Natural resources news
Register for the Society for Conservation Biology conference
Registrations are now open for the inaugural conference of the Australasian section of the Society for Conservation Biology. The conference will be held from 10 to 12 July at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
An exciting range of keynote speakers for the conference include Professor Michael E. Soulé, Professor Mike Archer, Dr Peter Brussard and Professor Stuart Bunn.
The conference will be divided into five major themes: challenges for the Australasian/Pacific Region; managing threatening process; case studies of conservation in action; conservation science and policy; and conservation science and the community.
For more information visit the biodiversity 2007 website.
2007 Queensland Landcare Conference - Making a Difference
22 – 25 August - Mackay
More than 300 people are expected to attend the eighteenth annual Queensland Landcare Conference, to be held in Mackay. With more than 35 speakers, five plenary sessions, concurrent workshops and seven field trips on offer, the program is diverse and action-packed. Program highlights include:
- Managing erosion in streams and gullies
- Reducing the impacts of urban development
- Local government successes and challenges
- Looking after Great Barrier Reef ecosystems
- Ameliorating the effects of climate change with soil carbon
- Lantana, a message of hope
- Art and the environment
- Mound spring management and associated biodiversity benefits
- Bobbie Brazil, Chair Land and Water Australia
- Compost tea: does it make a difference
- Eight million ute loads of dirt (Fitzroy Basin)
- Tourism and Landcare – working together
- Using urban compost to benefit rural communities
- Weed management agreements in the Burdekin
- New models for Indigenous land management
- Managing nutrients for water quality.
Early bird registrations close 30 June 2007. Modest subsidies are available to assist people traveling from remote and regional parts of Queensland. A full program and registration package is available online on the Landcare conference website.
Horticulture saves on water
Horticulture organisation Growcom has thanked horticulture growers who have been involved in the Water for Profit program which has notched up about $250 million in water savings and increases in productivity since it began in 1999.
Growcom Water Use Efficiency Coordinator Scott Wallace announced the program which aims to assist horticulture producers to maximise farm water use efficiency and said it would be extended under the Rural Water Use Efficiency (RWUE) Stage III program for another two years, funded by the Blueprint for the Bush.
Mr Wallace said since 2004, the start of RWUE Stage II, the Water for Profit Program had achieved 100 per cent awareness of the program through general information output and invitations to workshops and field days and gains of more than $51 million attributed to water savings and increases in productivity.
"Growers' involvement in workshops, field days and on farm trials has provided a valuable contribution to the industry's increasing level of knowledge and understanding of water use efficiency, and has seen positive outcomes achieved through on-farm practice changes," Mr Wallace said.
For the full media statement visit the Growcom website.
CRC Weed Publications Catalogue 2007 out now
Researchers, educators and advisors across Australia have combined their efforts to develop and deliver weed management information, skills and resources to the community.
These publications include information in books, factsheets, school resources, teaching resources, technical publications, weed management guides, weed watch newsletter and workshop proceedings.
These resources are available for the local community, trainers and students, advisors, industry, land managers and government.
Visit the CRC Weeds website for more information.
NT likely to get nuclear waste dump
It appears likely that Australia's first national nuclear waste dump will be situated at a remote Northern Territory community, after the area's Aboriginal elders accepted $12 million from the federal government in return for a 200 year lease.
Muckaty Station is 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek and is owned by the 70-member Ngapa clan, after it was handed back in 1995 as part of the Native Title process.
The agreement will allow the federal government to use the Ngapa clan's land for up to 200 years to store nuclear waste from all the states and territories. The deal includes an $11 million charitable trust and a $1 million education scholarship.
As yet, it has not been determined whether the site is suitable to store nuclear waste.
The federal government has said a nuclear dump facility would be operational within five years, once a preferred site is established and subjected to environmental impact assessment and nuclear regulatory licensing processes.
Please visit Education, Science and training website for the full article.
Get a job in NRM!
Are you interested in working with Queensland's regional natural resource management bodies? Then head to the Regional Groups' Collective website where current job opportunities are now available. Be sure to check back regularly to ensure you don't miss out on the job of a lifetime!
Here's a sample of what's on offer:
Group: SEQ Catchments
Location: Pine and Pumicestone sub-region
Title: Community Partnerships Manager
Contact 3816 9711 for an application package.
Enquiries should be directed to Andrew Davidson on 3503 1413.
Closing date: 5pm, 15 June.
Thought for the week
The are only two ways to handle tense situations: you can change them, or you can change the way you look at them. There is enlightenment to be had in changing the way you look at things.
"The Little Book Of Calm" by Paul Wilson (1996)
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Last updated 21 January 2009