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.
Clair Rodgers, from the Fitzroy Basin Association, said, “We’ve been focusing our work on improving the condition of remnant vegetation and increasing ground cover on stream banks and hill slopes to withstand longer dry periods and heavier rainfall.
We’ve also been working closely with landholders to improve water infiltration on cropped country, enabling higher average levels of cover and increased production during dry periods, and decreasing sediment, nutrient and chemical levels in run-off from these production areas to improve freshwater and marine ecological condition and resilience.”
The Fitzroy Basin Association has also been investigating soil and vegetation carbon sequestration opportunities for the region, with field trials, community carbon workshops, and the recent publication of ‘The Dirt’, for landholders.
