Working with Queensland producers to identify how to adapt to climate change and reduce their carbon footprint, to negate the cost increases expected under a carbon economy, has been a strong focus of the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee (QMDC).

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Informative, thought-provoking, enjoyable. This is how the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee hopes participants will find a two-day Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Production forum in Goondiwindi on November 11 and 12.

Nine new Aboriginal Rangers will soon be on the ground in the Queensland Murray-Darling Basin, helping land managers protect the environment and combat pest and weed threats.

Setting up worm farms and chicken pens to help use food wastes are just two of the ideas some innovative students have come up with to help their Queensland Murray-Darling Basin schools become more environmentally sustainable.

The rabbits around Stanthorpe are in for a tough time as a project targeting their homes aims to reduce the pest animals’ impact on valuable crops and pastures.

Farmers in the Border Rivers and Moonie areas have implemented more than 66km of contour banks and 10km of waterways to help protect 1320 hectares of agricultural land.

The third-year Environmental Management and Agricultural Science students from the University of Queensland (UQ) took part in the three-day field trip to examine real life examples of landscape scale management of natural resources.

A new plan to help guide investment in activities that support the meaningful involvement of Aboriginal communities in natural resource management will soon be implemented through the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee (QMDC).

Communities along the Macintyre and Dumaresq Rivers, on the Queensland/ New South Wales border, have been working with government agencies and regional NRM bodies from both states to establish a demonstration reach project.

The project is being coordinated by the Queensland Murray-Darling Committee (QMDC) as part of the Murray Darling Basin Commission’s Native Fish Strategy, and has recently received a further $32,000 from the Commission to support the growing momentum for the reach.