Project Title: Designing Incentives for
Achieving Biodiveristy Targets in the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM
Region with specific emphasis on the Bowen Broken and Bogie River
subcatchments
Project Collaborators: River Consulting Pty
Ltd, CSIRO & ACTFR
Description: The Bowen, Broken and Bogie river
catchments contain eleven highly significant areas of remnant
vegetation within the Northern Brigalow Belt as well as several
wetland areas that meet the criteria for Wetlands of National
Significance. These areas are not formally protected and
maintenance of their ecological integrity thus relies on on-farm
conservation. The areas are part of the State's leasehold estate
and thus part of working cattle stations. Grazing enterprises are
under various pressures to intensity production, which poses a
major threat to biodiversity conservation. Farm debt has been
identified as a key driver of intensification.
The project will be working with landholders in the Bowen,
Broken and Bogie river catchments to develop incentives focused on
achieving biodiversity conservation outcomes.
The landholders in these sub-catchments stood out (on the basis
of a 2003 landholder survey) from other regions within the Burdekin
Dry Tropics Region as being interested in innovative incentives and
open to novel approaches, including
debt-for-conservation-swaps.
Project Service Provider: Romy Greiner, River
Consulting Pty Ltd
Funding: $192,532
Project Identification Number: BC002
For more information contact Kate Masters,
kate.masters@bdtnrm.org.au