Voice of the Regions - July 2008
Across the regions
Learning indigenous skills to manage our landscape
Dreams of Queensland's indigenous elders to have their traditional knowledge recognised and preserved have been realised in the wrap up of the Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways (TKRP) project last month. The project received funding of $1 million from the federal and Queensland governments, and produced a number of digital video case studies... more
Cross-regional project enhancing biodiversity hotspots
A new cross-regional project Enhancing Biodiversity Hotspots Along Western Queensland Stock Routes has been launched as part of the initiative 'Back on Track' - species prioritisation framework, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Australian Government... more
Qld NRM leaders awarded with honours
Awarded with an Order of Australia medal on the Queen's birthday last month, Mike Berwick has been honoured for his tireless service to conservation and the environment... more
Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
Cottoning on to chemical control in Burdekin catchment
It all started back in December last year when Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM announced results of its intensive five-year water quality project in the Burdekin catchment... more
Tender care for land helps Reef
A new tender scheme is underway for cane growers and graziers in Queensland's lower Burdekin region. The Lower Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Tender aims to reduce sediments, nitrogen and pesticides entering waterways... more
Burnett Mary Regional Group
War waged against water weed
From South America to CSIRO laboratories in Brisbane, and at selected locations around Australia including Lake Macdonald near Cooroy, continuing the war against one of Australia's worst water weeds is well under way, with encouraging signs emerging from a research project into the aquatic weed, cabomba (Cabomba caroliniana)... more
Ambitious Cooloola Coast mapping project finalised
After two years and five project officers, Cooloola Coastcare Association Inc (CCAI) has finalised its very ambitious Cooloola Coast Mapping Project funded by the Burnett Mary Regional Group... more
Condamine Alliance
Drum-beat of progress sounds for ancient site
For several thousand years Aboriginal tribes from as far away as northern New South Wales and Central Queensland accepted invitations from the Jarowair people to take part in the triennial Bunya Nut harvest at the Bunya Mountains north of Dalby in the Condamine catchment... more
Volunteers take a break from the office to help the environment
Volunteers from the Suncorp Metway call centre in Toowoomba swapped their phones for a motorised dntre in Toowoomba swapped their phones for a motorised digger and a Pottiputki (a hand-held device used to plant seedlings) to help out with revegetation work at Passmore Reserve, near Clifton... more
Model makeover for Bowenville retreat
Regular visitors to Bowenville Reserve, a popular fishing spot on Oakey Creek, may not recognise the place.
It has been transformed with newly planted native tree seedlings and the erection of barriers to keep campers away from the banks, as well as snags placed in the river for fish habitat, and interpretive signs explaining all the work... more
Desert Channels Queensland
Pest manager infestation in Port Augusta
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) was recently represented in Port Augusta at the Rangelends Pest Management Forum, hosted by the South Australian Arid Lands Board... more
Desert Uplands Committee
Peter Andrews field day a success
On 28 May the Desert Uplands brought Peter Andrews to the region for a field day on 'natural sequence farming' at Lake Dunn Recreation Club, Aramac... more
Fitzroy Basin Association
Gladstone area in good hands as resource group grows
The Gladstone region's environment is in good hands with two new staff boosting the capacity of the area's NRM group... more
Forum a time to reflect on flooding
The Fitzroy Flood Forum, from 5 to 7 August, will offer a chance to reflect and discuss how flooding in early 2008 affected the Fitzroy Basin region... more
Queensland Murray-Darling Committee
Halting the decline of river health
Data from the Murray-Darling Basin Commission's State of the Rivers Audit has found the Condamine-Balonne and Border Rivers catchments to be in moderate health... more
Studying an icon: the Murray cod
Anglers from along the New South Wales/Queensland border, east of Goondiwindi, have been studying the optimal stocking rates for the Murray cod, which is listed as vulnerable under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act... more
Southern Gulf Catchments
Southern Gulf Catchments goes native
Southern Gulf Catchments (SGC) is demonstrating an easy step businesses can take to help reduce their carbon footprint. SGC has transformed their front yard into a native garden and has reduced paper waste from their office and a local grocery store to do it... more
TopLast updated 23 July 2008