33 BURDEKIN DRY TROPICS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN 2016-2026
Objectives
Traditional Owners have increased opportunities for connecting to country to aid the wellbeing of Indigenous people( cont.).
Traditional Owners and Indigenous peoples’ priorities and desired actions are reflected in regional NRM decisions.
Strategies
d) Establish partnerships and joint NRM initiatives between Traditional Owner groups and other organisations.
e) Develop, update and implement Indigenous land and sea management plans.
a) Work with the Traditional Owner Management Group( TOMG) to help ensure that Indigenous aspirations and priorities are reflected in regional NRM planning processes such as the:
• NRM Plan;
• Conservation Action Plan;
• Water Quality Improvement Plan;
• Reef 2050 Plan;
• Regional Pest Management Strategy;
• local government planning; and
• state government planning.
b) Develop a participation strategy for our region that identifies Indigenous land management in NRM.
Rural land managers are informed and skilled to make sustainable land management decisions. a) Promote collaboration between the agricultural, financial, environmental, government, research, education and training sectors to develop long-term, regionspecific support processes for rural communities. For example: full-time traineeships particularly for rural youth.
b) Provide land managers with on-site specific information, training and extension that supports best management practices and builds their capacity to ensure a healthy and productive way of life for their business, the community and the natural environment.
c) Design NRM education and extension programmes and actions to increase the capacity of land managers that:
• consider their wellbeing and economic pressures;
• are based on behavioral change approaches that consider their attitudes, benefits and barriers to change; and
• facilitate development of planning and risk management skills.
d) Support the promotion of sustainable land management, which is tailored to the motivations and opportunities of rural communities and links with social services and business planning. For example: succession planning is actively encouraged to ensure farms continue to be managed for productive agricultural land.
e) Support the viability of rural communities by providing physical and digital infrastructure and services.
PEOPLE CONNECTIONS