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Presentations from Reef Showcase now available

 Presentations delivered at the Inaugural Reef Rescue Showcase held last month in Cairns are now available. The presentations include:

  • A focus on best-practice science and engagement | NQ Dry Tropics
  • Strong partnerships and sound delivery model engaging cane growers in the Lower Burdekin | NQ Dry Tropics
  • An overview of Reef Rescue | Mike Berwick
  • Partnerships for Practice Change | Fitzroy Basin Association
  • Grains BMP program - boosting productivity and reef water quality | Grains BMP officers and participants
  • What we understand and what we need to understand better: the change in research focus | Hugh Yorkston, GBRMPA
  • Underpinning science to target improved practice change | Fitzroy Basin Association
  • Industry-wide Reef Rescue projects - big picture projects helping out regional growers and graziers
  • Milking the P's to change: powerful partnerships using performing programs, precision planning and proven practices | Rick Kowitz, Queensland Dairyfarmers' Organisation
  • Horticulture: in partnership with the Reef | Growcom
  • Healthy Country: managing the land for healthy waterways - a case study from SEQ | SEQ Catchments
  • Reef Rescue success in the Wet Tropics | Terrain

Reef Rescue: fact sheet and newsletter

Two new Reef Rescue publications will be available in March, helping to spread the word about the unique Queensland program. A fact sheet provides an overview of the program, the role of industry and regional NRM groups and how funding can be accessed by land managers across reef catchments. A new quarterly newsletter provides industry and regional groups with an avenue for sharing news about how their work is contributing to improving the water quality of the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. The first newsletter features stories about a new DVD produced by CANEGROWERS, managing for fire across Cape York and how Reef Rescue has given new graziers a hand in the NQ Dry Tropics region. Both publications, produced in partnership by Queensland Farmers Federation and Queensland Regional NRM Groups Collective are available online at www.rgc.org.au from 10 March 2010 or by contacting Lane Pilon on 07 4699 5000. The deadline for the next edition of the newsletter is Tuesday 30 April and contributions can be sent to sam@wombatcreative.com.au.

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Fitzroy Basin: Preserving culture and nature at ‘Gawula’

GPS training for indigenous land managers is helping guide better management of a significant site in Central Queensland.
 
Fitzroy Basin Association Inc and Fitzroy Basin Elders Committee supported six people identified by the Gawula Aboriginal Land Trust Committee to undertake GPS training. These participants will put their new skills to use conducting a cultural heritage survey of Gawula, a parcel of land on the Central Queensland coast managed by the Trust, which will support the development of a cultural heritage plan.
 
Trust Chairperson, Sally Vea Vea, said that the training and cultural heritage plan would build on an existing natural resource management plan developed by the Trust for Gawula, which was launched in early 2009. She said the Trust was committed to maintaining the natural values and environmental sustainability of Gawula. 
 

Volunteers needed: oil spill clean-up on target

Seven kilometres off the coast of Queensland on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, the Pacific Adventurer was battered by the tail end of Cyclone Hamish. Suffering two punctures to the hull, the vessel leaked around 270 tonnes of heavy fuel oil, and five hours later the oil was washing ashore on Moreton Island and some of the beaches on the Sunshine Coast.
 
It has been referred to as one of Australia’s worst oil spills and prompted a huge clean-up operation involving Maritime Safety Queensland, the Department of Environment and Resource Management, and SEQ Catchments.
 

Where not to dump your pet fish!

From little things, big things grow and the same applies to pests! In the case of pest fish, what may have started as a misguided act can sometimes spell disaster for our local waterways and precious freshwater biodiversity. 
 
So what do you do when your fish gets sick, is too big for your aquarium tank or fish pond or you just don’t want it anymore? 
 
The answer is not to flush it down the toilet – however apt a ‘watery grave’ may appear and definitely not to release it into your local waterway or dam.
 
Last week an Oscar, which is a species of aquarium fish from the Cichlid family from South America was found in Lake Gregory (the Isis Balancing Storage). The fish was a shock discovery for local stocking enthusiasts and was in very poor condition, luckily making it easy to catch and remove. 
 
“We couldn’t believe that someone could have been so thoughtless,” said Rob Sewell, President of the Bundaberg Sportfishing Club, adding “Over the years, our fish stocking committee have released over 300,000 fingerlings in Lake Gregory, so we were shocked that an act like that could put all our efforts in jeopardy.”
 

Adaptive Capacity in Coastal Communities

Start Date: 
17/11/2009
End Date: 
17/11/2009

The National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility is holding the last of the NCCARF Seminar Series event for 2009: 'Enhancing Adaptive Capacity in Coastal Communities'  with guest speaker Professor Tim Smith  Director of the Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast.

This will be particularly relevant for people working or studying climate change, environmental/coastal planning, emergency management, public health or community services, among others.  

This event will be held Tues 17 November at Griffith University South Bank QCA Theatre, Brisbane (s05_2.04) at  4-5pm  followed by Christmas drinks and networking.

RSVPs are essential to Kerry Fitzgerald on  k.fitzgerald@griffith.edu.au

Location

QLD

Great Barrier Reef Workshop:

Start Date: 
09/11/2009
End Date: 
10/11/2009

Understanding the impact of herbicides on the Great Barrier Reef  The issues, the science, the on‐ground practice and the future
 

CANEGROWERS is hosting a workshop to better understand the impact of herbicides on the Great Barrier Reef and how to  best balance reef health with sugar production.  

The facilitated workshop will focus on herbicides and water quality to:
• Identify an approach on how best to balance reef health with  sugar production 

• Provide an opportunity to share expert knowledge among participants 

• Develop a better understanding of the on‐ground, scientific and regulatory settings

See the attached flyer for more information.
 

Location

QLD

Queensland Landcare Conference

Start Date: 
15/10/2009
End Date: 
17/10/2009

The Queensland Landcare Conference will run from Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 October 2009 in Longreach and will showcase land and water management practices involving everything from water wise gardens, the control of woody and exotic weeds, to feral animal control and the rehabilitation of our natural water courses.

Registrations have now closed.

For further details see www.iceaustralia.com/qldlandcare09/
 

Location

QLD
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