8 | ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018
Achieve great things
WE greatly value working with
our corporate partners on
natural resource management
projects across the region.
These partnerships bring mutual
benefits:
• We provide expertise, advice
and community connections that
can assist our partners to meet
their strategic environmental
objectives, contractual obligations,
development approval conditions
or sustainability commitments.
• Private sector partnerships and
investment add value to our
projects.
If you are interested in supporting
natural resource management
and partnering with a proven,
professional and passionate
organisation that delivers
high-quality projects, please
contact CEO, Dr Scott Crawford, on
4799 3500.
THIS year we continued partnering with
Evolution Mining to remove aquatic
weeds from Kalamia Creek, near Ayr,
and investigate ways of turning the
harvested material into an organic
compost – benefiting productivity and
soil health on local cane farms.
The project aims to show the compost will improve soil
carbon and water storage capacity, and reduce the need
for synthetic fertilisers.
Evolution invested $200,000 under its Shared Value
program, which funds sustainable initiatives to benefit
communities.
We made this investment go further by leveraging
an additional $66,000 of in-kind support – from water
delivery provider Lower Burdekin Water ($31,000),
Burdekin Shire Council ($10,000), JCU’s water quality
research group TropWATER ($5,000), and local
landholders ($20,000).