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Q Dry Tropics is leading the Landholders
Driving Change project, a large-scale
water quality and land improvement project
that is being rolled out in the Bowen Broken
Bogie (BBB) catchment to tackle erosion and
improve land management, productivity and
reef water quality in the Burdekin region.
The project is focused
on the high-priority BBB
catchment near Bowen and
Collinsville.
It is an area which
produces almost a quarter
of the fine sediment load
that ends up on the Great
Barrier Reef.
From the very start, we
asked local graziers to get
involved and put forward
ideas about how to keep
soil on the land and to
improve productivity.
This project combines
graziers’ knowledge
with the latest scientific
research. It will trial
and develop solutions
designed to remove
the social, financial and
technical barriers to
practice change.
These could include
providing graziers with
extension support
and training, land
ways to link landholders
rehabilitation, investigating with policy makers to cut
incentives, and looking at
red tape.
Project Manager LDC Project Design Donna Turner
and CEO NQ Dry Tropics Scott Crawford at a
planning workshop.
P10 | ISSUE 1, April, 2018
ABOVE and RIGHT: Landholders’ pla
off the Landholders Driving Change