Contact us
Office Location:
2 McIlwraith St, Townsville
Mailing Address:
PO Box 1466 Townsville 4810
Contact Information:
Phone: 07 4724 3544
Email: info@nqdrytropics.com.au
Website: http://www.nqdrytropics.com.au/
Our region
See the full topography of our amazing region.
NQ Dry Tropics is a community based, not-for-profit company. We aim to facilitate the improvement of land and water management practices.
NQ Dry Tropics is the designated regional body for the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM region. The region covers an area of 140,000 square kilometres with about 210,000 residents. The majority of those people live in Townsville (over 160,000) and other rural centres such as Charters Towers, Ayr, Home Hill, Bowen, the lower Burdekin towns, Collinsville, as well as the Alpha and Clermont districts. Away from the major centres the region is very sparsely populated.
The region extends into marine waters and includes Magnetic Island and the Palm Islands.
At present there are five subregions within the region. These sub-regions are mostly defined by sub-catchment areas and are distinct in environmental, economic and social characteristics and have issues specific to these characteristics. They are:
- Townsville Coastal Plains;
- Lower Burdekin-Bowen Floodplains;
- Burdekin Rangelands;
- Belyando-Suttor/Bowen-Broken;
- Eastern Desert Uplands.
There are three bioregions including the Einasleigh Uplands, the Desert Uplands and, the Brigalow Belt North.
Approximately 5 per cent of the population in the region is Indigenous. It includes the largest Torres Strait Islanders population outside of the Torres Strait, located primarily in the Townsville area.
Local Government
The Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM region covers all or part of twelve local government jurisdictions.
- Barcaldine Regional Council
- Burdekin Shire Council
- Charters Towers Regional Council
- Etheridge Shire Council
- Flinders Shire Council
- Hinchinbrook Shire Council
- Isaac Regional Council
- Mackay Regional Council
- Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council
- Tablelands Regional Council
- Townsville City Council
- Whitsunday Regional Council
