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.

The Fitzroy Basin Association has been working diligently with landholders across the region to address a range of factors impacted by, and impacting on climate change. Programs designed to increase the long-term resilience of all natural assets and systems to climate change are currently being run on a range of levels, from species to ecosystems, and paddocks to catchments.

More than 80 attendees at a lantana control field day in the Boyne Valley gained improved knowledge and skills needed to combat the weed.

A study funded by the Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA) has found dolphins along the Capricorn Coast may be in danger of disappearing from the region.

FBA’s Coastal and Marine Coordinator Shane Westley said it was the perfect opportunity to highlight the plight of the Pacific Humpback and Snubfin dolphins. The dolphins are both listed as rare under the Queensland Nature Conservation Act 1992.