BDTNRM invests in nature refuges
Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM, the Environmental Protection Agency and landholders in the Jericho, Bowen and Townsville Shires are joining forces to link environmental needs with sustainable land management practices, making Nature Refuges an important part of their business strategy. [pdf 212.6 kb]
Spray workshops a success
June 2008 - IT ALL started back in December last year when the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM announced results of its intensive five year water quality project in the Burdekin catchment [pdf 280.4 kb]
Pixel Project
May 2008 - The Water Quality Pixel Project, a program that encourages land holders in the lower Burdekin to continually test their runoff as well as their ground water with a unique testing kit, has revealed some interesting - and in some cases surprising results. [pdf 202.8 kb]
Tilapia the cane toad of the northern waterways
Environmentalists from across North Queensland are meeting in Cairns today (Wednesday May 21) to discuss strategies to combat the incredibly invasive Tilapia that now totally dominates our waterways and threatens to invade the entire Gulf of Carpentaria and even the Northern Territory. [pdf 261.1 kb]
Tide comes in for Burdekin Fish
21 April 2008 - BURDEKIN Dry Tropics NRM and Ocean Watch Australia have launched a six pronged attack to enhance the sustainability of fish species in the region. [pdf 231.3 kb]
Local voice joins Australian Rural Leadership program
21 April 2008 - To those who know him, there was no real surprise that Burdekin Dry Tropics Aboriginal Land Management facilitator Sam Savage was chosen to join 34 other young leaders from all over the nation to join in this year’s prestigious internationally respected Australian Rural Leadership Program (ARLP). [pdf 265.9 kb]
Finance Expert joins BDTNRM Board of Directors
14 April 2008 - Cris Dall’ Osto is a prominent figure around the Herbert region and Townsville, well known for a lifelong association with figures - of the dollars and cents variety that is. [pdf 278.3 kb]
International Volunteers Clean up Burdekin Beaches
26 March 2008 - Six overseas members of the Better Earth organization will join forces with local members of
the Burdekin coast care group this weekend to wipe out the dreaded Singapore Daisy and
replace the old wooden sand ladder with plastic bollards at Alva Beach. [pdf 239.0 kb]
From Cane farm to the Cattle station
18 March 2008 - Cattle cockie cum diesel fitter Steve Musson calls it a reverse sea change - “ and the best thing I‘ve ever done.’’
Steve sold his cane farm and engineering business at Gargett, a tiny township in the rich Pioneer Valley of Mackay,
and bought a tired old cattle station at Barcaldine eight years ago. [pdf 194.3 kb]
Improving Burdekin Beef Profits
4 March 2008 - Imagine 10 years ago (or even two) neighboring graziers sitting around a table not merely discussing their financial details, but scrutinizing their intimate banking and financial statements as well. While cattlemen from older generations might not believe, and scoff at the thought, such was the case last week in Charters Towers. Where 25 such cattle graziers, from all parts of the district met, not merely to discuss their relative
finances, but to compare management strategies and be briefed by a team of modern day experts of the rapidly
changing beef growing industry. [pdf 205.4 kb]
Landscape Linkages revitalizes the Desert Uplands - By Terry Butts
5 February 2008 - An innovative scheme, financed by Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM to entice land owners in the southern Desert
Uplands to revitalize their land with native vegetation and at the same time conserve wild life in their pastures, is
being hailed a success. [pdf 98.2 kb]
Mr. Mark Stoneman Media Release Oct 2007
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Mr. Kevin Mann joins BDTNRM Board
August 2007 - The Townsville based Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management recently appointed high profile Home
Hill canegrower Kevin Mann to its eleven-member board. It is an interesting appointment and comes at a time when
scientists and land users are sometimes (if not often) in disagreement about modern land management techniques. [pdf 200.8 kb]
Fishways - By Terry Butts
August 2007 - An ambitious, unique and expensive project to have millions of Barramundi and other fresh water fish swimming the
boundaries of the Bountiful Burdekin is at an advanced stage, and according to experts, the signs are promising to
say the least. [pdf 194.4 kb]
Fixing the Broken River - By Terry Butts
August 2007 - The Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management (BDTNRM) and sister organization the Mackay Whitsunday NRM are working closely on a project to clean up one of Queensland’s best-known habitats for our platypus- the aptly named Broken River at Eungella in the Mackay Highlands. [pdf 202.5 kb]
Changing Places - By Terry Butts
28 July 2007 - Until recent times the subject of global warming has been dismissed by the rank and file as some form of greenie
gobbledegook. Even scare mongering. Proportionately very few of us wanted to know. Simply didn’t care. But, just like the weather, that perception has changed. Quite dramatically too. In fact the subject of climate change
has spread through the local community like a whiplash, according to Paul Wuth who is in charge of the key climate
change project being undertaken quite seriously by Burdekin Dry Tropics Natural Resource Management [pdf 133.3 kb]