Dec 2008 Creating Free Passage for Fish at Rita Island
Construction of a rock ramp fishway is currently underway to enhance migration of native fish within the Burdekin
Anabranch. The fishway is a culmination of work by the North Burdekin Water Board, State Government, private
consultants and non-government organisations who have joined together over the past year to address fish passage
in the lower Burdekin. [pdf 108.1 kb]
Dec 2008 Community Coastcare Grants Awarded
The region has received over $820,000 as part of the federal Government’s Caring for our Country Community Coastcare programme.
It brings the total of recently-announced Commonwealth funding to over $5.5 million to deliver natural resource management outcomes in the Burdekin Dry Tropics region, including over $3 million for the Reef Rescue project and almost $2 million in Open Grants funding.
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Nov 2008 Almost $1.3 million Announced for our Region
The Burdekin Dry Tropics region has been awarded almost $1.3 million by the Australian Government to carry out a number of major projects for our region. [doc 317.0 kb]
Nov 2008 Beaches Get a Facelift
Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management (BDTNRM) has teamed up with Townsville City Council to improve our spectacular coastal areas. The beaches at Ollera and Surveyor Creeks and Rowes Bay were the recipients of restoration project worth close to one hundred thousand dollars. [doc 307.0 kb]
Nov 2008 Funds flow to Rescue Reef
Expressions of Interest are now being sought from farmers, graziers and landholders in the Burdekin Dry Tropics region who are interested in participating in the Australian Government’s voluntary Reef Rescue Program.
This follows the recent announcement of $23 million allocated under the Reef Rescue program to regional and industry bodies throughout Queensland to help improve the quality of runoff entering the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
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Nov 2008 Well Positioned for the Future
At the Burdekin Dry Tropics Annual General Meeting today the Chairman of the Board, Mark Stoneman, spoke about a number of changes that have impacted on the region during 2007/2008, and how Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM is positioning itself to best meet those changes. [doc 199.0 kb]
March 2008 Profitable Burdekin Beef
Imagine 10 years ago (or even two) neighboring graziers sitting around a table not merely discussing their financial
details, but scrutinizing their intimate banking and financial statements as well.
While cattlemen from older generations might not believe, and scoff at the thought, such was the case last week in
Charters Towers. Where 25 such cattle graziers, from all parts of the district met, not merely to discuss their relative finances, but to compare management strategies and be briefed by a team of modern day experts of the rapidly changing beef growing industry. [pdf 205.4 kb]
February 2008 Landscape Linkages
An innovative pilot scheme financed by Townsville based Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM to entice land owners in the
Southern Desert Uplands to manage their land with native vegetation and at the same time conserve wild life in their
pastures, is being hailed a great success. [pdf 143.0 kb]
April 2008 Finance Expert Joins BDTNRM Board
Cris Dall’ Osto is a prominent figure around the Herbert region and Townsville, well known as a conservative, quick thinking advisor on matters monetary. And it was obviously for these reasons he was invited to the Board of Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM. [pdf 278.3 kb]
April 2008 Water Quality Improvement Tender
BURDEKIN Dry Tropics NRM is offering Burdekin cane growers and graziers a total of $605,000 in a unique type of incentive scheme designed to improve water quality on their properties. [pdf 193.9 kb]
June 2008 BDTNRM invests in nature refuges
June 2008 Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM, the Environmental Protection Agency and landholders in the Jericho, Bowen and Townsville Shires are joining forces to link environmental needs with sustainable land management practices, making Nature Refuges an important part of their business strategy. [pdf 212.6 kb]
June 2008 Getting chinee apple under control
June 2008 THERE is a way to get rid of the chinee apple weed without ruining native vegetation and WetlandCare Australia wants to show landowners how. [pdf 211.5 kb]
June 2008 Spray workshops a success
June 2008 - IT ALL started back in December last year when the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM announced results of its intensive five year water quality project in the Burdekin catchment [pdf 280.4 kb]
May 2008 Pixel Project
May 2008 - The Water Quality Pixel Project, a program that encourages land holders in the lower Burdekin to continually test their runoff as well as their ground water with a unique testing kit, has revealed some interesting - and in some cases surprising results. [pdf 202.8 kb]
May 2008 Quoll Project opens in North Queensland
28 May 2008 - The Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (Wildlife Queensland) congratulates the Townsville City Council and Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management Group on supporting the establishment of the Quoll Seekers Network in Townsville – the network’s first venture into North Queensland. [pdf 119.9 kb]
May 2008 Australian Federal Government Budget
Detailed are the press releases for the Minister for Climate Change and Water the Hon Penny Wong and the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett AM MP.
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May 2008 Grader Grass Field Days
May 2008 - NORTH Queensland Graziers and land maangers wanting to protect their native pastures and keep their animals productive are invited to a grader grass field day at Undara in June 2008. [pdf 51.4 kb]
May 2008 Tilapia the cane toad of the northern waterways
Environmentalists from across North Queensland will meet in Cairns on Wednesday to discuss strategies to combat the incredibly invasive Tilapia that now totally dominates our waterways and threatens to invade the entire Gulf of Carpentaria and even the Northern Territory. [pdf 261.1 kb]
April 2008 Tide comes in for Burdekin Fish
21 April 2008 - BURDEKIN Dry Tropics NRM and Ocean Watch Australia have launched a six pronged attack to enhance the sustainability of fish species in the region. [pdf 231.3 kb]
April 2008 Local voice joins Australian Rural Leadership program
21 April 2008 - To those who know him, there was no real surprise that Burdekin Dry Tropics Aboriginal Land Management facilitator Sam Savage was chosen to join 34 other young leaders from all over the nation to join in this year’s prestigious internationally respected Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP). [pdf 265.9 kb]
April 2008 Bill Sperring joins BDTNRM Board
April 2008 - A former Townsville High principal once described by Tony Mooney as having dynamic leadership
qualities is the new member on the board of Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM.
Bill Sperring, who retired after 19 years in December 2007, has pledged to offer the same qualities to his
new appointment in the non for profit natural resource management operation - that has become widely
recognized and known simply at Burdekin Dry Tropics - or even more simply as BDT. [pdf 209.6 kb]
March 2008 International Volunteers Clean up Burdekin Beaches
26 March 2008 - Six overseas members of the Better Earth organization will join forces with local members of
the Burdekin coast care group this weekend to wipe out the dreaded Singapore Daisy and
replace the old wooden sand ladder with plastic bollards at Alva Beach. [pdf 239.0 kb]
March 2008 From Cane farm to the Cattle station
18 March 2008 - Cattle cockie cum diesel fitter Steve Musson calls it a reverse sea change - “ and the best thing I‘ve ever done.’’
Steve sold his cane farm and engineering business at Gargett, a tiny township in the rich Pioneer Valley of Mackay,
and bought a tired old cattle station at Barcaldine eight years ago. [pdf 194.3 kb]
March 2008 Breeder nutrition the key to success
3 March 2008 - The three key factors that drive the economics of a successful breeding enterprise are; fertility, weaner weight for
age, and identification and marketing of "e;slow performers"e;. [pdf 212.1 kb]
February 2008 Profitable Beef Workshop in Charters Towers
26 February 2008 - Three beef producer teams in the Burdekin Catchment of north Queensland are meeting in Charters Towers this
week to discuss how they are using a whole of business systems approach to improve their environmental sustainability and profitability at the same time. [pdf 151.8 kb]
