Voice of the Regions
April 2006
Welcome to the Voice of the Regions.
Each month, the Voice lets Queensland's regional NRM bodies tell their own stories in their own voice.
Thank you to those regions who contributed this month.
Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
Pelican 1 sets sail
Pelican 1 sailed from Bundaberg on March 6 for a five-week scientific expedition...more.
Documenting Cyclone Larry's impact
Far North Queensland has suffered a beating and Cyclone Larry has seriously affected FNQ NRM's projects and activities throughout the region...more.
Volunteers catch first wet
Around 30 volunteers and staff from the Australian Centre for Tropical Freshwater Research were busy on Australia Day sampling major waterways in the Lower Burdekin...more.
SPIRALing up
Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM, with funding from the Australian Government National Landcare Program and working closely with the Dalrymple Landcare Committee, is funding the Strategic Partnerships Incentives for Revitalising Active Landcare (SPIRAL)...more.
SPOT 5 is spot on!
Over the next six months, Doug Willis will lead a project to collect SPOT 5 coverage for the entire Burdekin Region...more.
Meet Ian Dight and Paul Wuth
Dr Ian Dight is responsible for the Coastal Catchments Initiative, a $1.75 million program designed to improve the quality of the water within the catchments draining into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon...more.
Burnett Mary Regional Group
Forum tackles climate change
What the future holds for the changing climate of the Burnett Mary Region and how it will affect primary producers were some of the big questions posed during the Inland Climate Change Forum in March...more.
Desert Channels Queensland
Indigenous cultural heritage
The protection, restoration and management of significant Indigenous sites in the region has the strong support of Desert Channels Queensland with the release of $150,000 under its Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program...more.
Making good investments
Desert Channels Queensland continues to make good investments in the region by channelling money directly to land-managers from the Australian Government's Natural Heritage Trust...more.
More money for the West
Land managers are eligible to apply for $300,000 in the latest round of National Landcare Community Support announced by Desert Channels Queensland this week...more.
Fitzroy Basin Association
Community takes on the mountain - and wins!
Years of pushing the issue of acid mine drainage and the threat of pit overflow at the abandoned Mt Morgan minesite have paid off...more.
FNQ NRM
Funds Flow to Farmers
Farmers in the Tully district can apply for up to $20,000 to adopt farm management practices that improve water quality...more.
Mackay Whitsunday NRM
Mangrove health report released
A comprehensive report released in the Mackay Whitsunday region this week provides a better understanding of the health of the mangroves in the Bassett Basin...more.
Queensland Landcare Foundation
Conference returns to Brisbane after 17 years
The first Queensland Landcare conference was held in Brisbane in 1990. Since that time the event has travelled around Queensland giving Landcare organisations the opportunity to showcase their regions, their projects and their hospitality...more.
Queensland Murray-Darling Committee
Educating for the future
Creating a butterfly garden, designing and building a frog habitat pond, monitoring the health of a river, saving a threatened species; this doesn’t sound like school!...more.
New system saves water
It may not have been a change that John Turrisi wanted to make, but with a dry run of years and insufficient water in the dams, converting from overhead sprinklers to subsurface drip irrigation was a change he says he had to make...more.
SEQ Catchments
$8.4 million boost to SEQ natural resources
The natural resources that all south-east Queenslanders depend upon for their quality of life received an $8.4 million with the announcement of the South East Queensland Regional Investment Strategy for Natural Resource Management...more.
South West NRM
Indigenous group leads the way in NRM
South West NRM is leading the way as a regional natural resource management body by effectively engaging Indigenous stakeholders...more.
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Last updated 05 May 2006