The Toolkit will assist teachers and schools across Australia to access national, state, territory, regional and urban water resources.

A first-stop shop for Queensland wetland information, maintained by Queensland's Enviornmental Protection Agency (DERM).  Includes facts and figures, how to manage wetlands, maps and data, science and research and monitoring.

WIC allows for the capture and storage of data relating to the following themes:

• Core survey data and wetland attributes (e.g. date, time, location etc)
• Geology and soils
• Fauna
• Flora (structure and floristics)
• Water quality and
• Coastal bird surveys

For more information visit the Queensland Government Department of Environment and Resource Management's WetlandInfo page.

Wetlands International is a global organisation that woks to sustain and restore wetlands and their resourcs for people and biodiversity.

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.

The Queensland Landcare Conference runs from Thursday 15 to Saturday 17 October 2009 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.

The Conference Program consists of plenary sessions with keynote presentations by well known industry representatives, field trips and has an extensive social program designed to incorporate everything the conference theme entails: Legends, Larrikins and Landcare.

We look forward to your participation and contribution to Landcare in Longreach.

For more information visit the conference website at www.iceaustralia.com/qldlandcare09/

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