Reducing streambank erosion – Mackay Whitsunday

by Samantha Morris | Oct 8, 2024 | Nature Positive, News

A six-year Reef program, which ran until 2023, successfully combated stream bank erosion in the Mackay Whitsunday region. This program, in partnership with 31 agricultural properties, coordinated by regional NRM organisation Reef Catchments, managed to significantly...

Lower Burdekin cane growers improve Great Barrier Reef water quality

by Samantha Morris | Oct 8, 2024 | Nature Positive, News

More than 100 cane growers have been engaged by regional NRM organisation NQ Dry Tropics to positively impact water quality flowing to the great barrier reef. Through improved irrigation, nutrient and pesticide management and widespread practice change, four on-ground...

Protecting the Great Barrier Reef by reducing soil loss

by Samantha Morris | Sep 5, 2024 | Nature Positive, News, Nurturing Nature Cultivating Culture

Completed in June, 2024 with nearly $20 million invested through the Reef Trust Partnership, the Fitzroy Water Quality Program had an ambitious goal: to prevent 50,000 tonnes of fine sediment from the Fitzroy River Basin entering the Reef’s waters every year. A series...

Delivering outcomes for the Great Barrier Reef

by Samantha Morris | Mar 12, 2024 | Impact, News, Nurturing Nature Cultivating Culture

Thanks to the support of the Australian Government’s Reef Trust VII project, Reef Catchments supported 30 graziers to reduce erosion and improve the condition of soil and vegetation connectivity which in turn reduced the loss of fine sediments from grazing land...

Century-old cattle station works improve pastures as well as Reef

by Samantha Morris | Feb 27, 2024 | News, Nurturing Nature Cultivating Culture

Minnamoolka Station, at the headwaters of the Herbert and Burdekin rivers, is undergoing changes to improve cattle production, the land, and the water flowing to the Great Barrier Reef. Landholders Margie Atkinson and Greg Jenkins say it is never too late for fresh...