Voice of the Regions - September 2009
Burnett Mary Regional Group
National tree day grows to new heights
This year’s National Tree Day saw students from St Josephs Primary School and Bundaberg High helping to plant 2500 native wetland species to create a buffer along sections of Saltwater Creek. Friday 31 July was Planet Ark’s National Schools Tree Day and students took part in a whole of Australia effort that has seen more than 13.4 million native trees and shrubs planted around Australia...read more
Desert Channels Queensland
DCQ recieves multiple Landcare awards
Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) has continued its enviable record of being a champion of Landcare with recognition at the Queensland Landcare Awards ceremony at Government House on the first day of spring...read more
Fitzroy Basin Association
Kids learn about catchment care
Around 40 Stanwell State School students learnt about catchments and how to take care of them during a visit from the Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA) recently...read more
Northern Gulf Resource Management Group
Flooding creates 'exceptional circumstances' claims in the Northern Gulf
The results of extraordinary flooding in north-west Queensland last summer, has prompted the Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (NGRMG) to request 'exceptional circumstances' funding for families in the flooded region...read more
NQ Dry Tropics
Protecting our fish for the future
NQ Dry Tropics has continued its work on helping to maintain fish numbers in the region by constructing two more fish ways on Hazelwood and Exe Creeks in the Bowen-Broken region...read more
Queensland Murray-Darling Committee
Ballandean embraces energy saving ideas
Saving energy and money was the focus of a community information night at Ballandean Community Hall in mid August, run jointly by the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee (QMDC) and the Ballandean State School...read more
Carp busters were out in force in Mungindi
Anglers around Mungindi were readying their lines and tackle boxes in preparation for the annual 'Carp Busters' competition last weekend. Hosted by the Mungindi Fishing Club, 130 anglers attended this community event...read more
Reef Catchments
Best Practice Fire Management Guidelines for the Central Queensland Coast released
Reef Catchments is pleased to announce the official release of the Best Practice Fire Management Guidelines for the Central Queensland Coast...read more
Corporate volunteers help to protect coast
One hundred native seedlings have been planted in the Slade Point Reserve through a partnership between Reef Catchments, ANZ and Mackay Regional Council...read more
SEQ Catchments
Efforts to preserve endangered butterfly going vine
Three months after SEQ Catchments and Energex joined forces to help preserve the threatened Richmond Birdwing Butterfly, one of Australia’s largest and most spectacular native butterflies, more than 300 vines have been potted in the first stage to restore the butterfly’s food source....read more
Southern Gulf Catchments
2009 AGM to be held in Hughenden
Southern Gulf Catchments are taking their Annual General Meeting to Hughenden this year...read more
Terrain
Lifting the bar on reef water quality
Recently, in the far north, the reef water quality debate was back on the agenda after the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Reef Team, led by Nick Heath, spent a week in Cairns meeting with farmers and tourism operators to discuss the future of the reef...read more
Eureka with carbon
Terrain NRM was a finalist for the prestigious Eureka Prize for science and innovation under ‘Innovative Solutions to Climate Change’ for its ground-breaking work in developing the Degree Celsius landscape-scale carbon sink initiative...read more
Torres Strait
Living with climate change
The implications of climate change on the iconic Torres Strait Island ecosystems could see whole islands inundated by rising water levels, the Torres Strait Regional Authority has warned...read more
Last updated 15 September 2009