INCENTIVE TYPE INCENTIVE NAME ORGANISER / GOVERNMENT
BRIEF SUMMARY
( GL); People and Business( PB); Animal Production( AP); and Animal Health and Welfare( AH). Assessment done via workshop, or one on one with facilitator, or on-line. 2) An accreditation system ratified by Industry Auditor with periodic external audits that confirms the ethical, equitable and environmental credentials of graziers. 3) Workshops and events e. g. Women in Grazing Bus Tour. BENEFITS: 1) Technical capacity building and learning support is offered along with help to develop action plan to rectify below standard practices as required. Thus, providing access to information and support 2) A graziers’ accreditation will provide confidence that their performance is endorsed, scientifically robust and recognised. Also, the accreditation is designed to provide graziers, the supply chain, government stakeholders and the wider community confidence that industry best management practice standards are being adhered to.
ELIGIBILITY AND FURTHER DETAILS
Information source |
Future Beef |
Collaboration between MLA and |
� Source of information for graziers. Information for the beef industry in northern Australia, includes links to many other websites relevant to beef produces. Seeks |
the governments of QLD, NT and WA. |
to provide the north Australian beef industry with key information and tools to assist with making on-farm changes that improve business performance. |
� https:// futurebeef. com. au /
Funding program |
Nature Assist |
QLD Gov: Dept of Environment and Heritage Protection |
� Aims to formally protect significant conservation values on land / properties selected for their significant conservation values, connectivity and their predicted resilience to a changing climate, and enhance the resilience of the property. Provides funding for projects likely to deliver conservation outcomes as well as benefits to sustainable production.
� Can provide funding for project with clear conservation outcome, enhancing the resilience and sustainable management of a property. In many cases, projects are likely to deliver conservation outcomes as well as benefits to sustainable production. The types of activities favoured include: reducing the impacts of stock and pest animals on environmentally sensitive areas such as vine thickets, watercourses and wetlands by managing access. Examples of activities funded in previous rounds include: establishing artificial watering points away from natural springs or watercourses, erecting fencing to manage stock access, and excluding and controlling pest animals stabilising soils, improving water quality or increasing the value of wildlife habitat integrating the management of pest plants, pest animals and fire. Note: nature refuge agreement can be negotiated to allow for continuing use of the land resulting in both ecological and economic sustainability. Tax relief in form of conservation covenants also likely to be available.
� Property must be identified as being in a priority investment area and landholder must be willing to sign a Nature Refuge Agreement( which is negotiated between EHP and the landholder; provides framework for sustainably managing a nature refuge and protecting its significant values; tailored to suit the landholder’ s management needs; able to be negotiated with owners of freehold land, leaseholders of State land, government corporations that are separate legal entities from the QLD Government, local governments, private companies and nature conservancies; able to be negotiated over the whole or a portion of the property, depending on the conservation values and the landholder’ s wishes; perpetual, registrable on title and binds successive owners or lessees of the land).
� https:// www. ehp. qld. gov. au / ecosystems / naturerefuges / natureassist /; https:// www. ehp. qld. gov. a u / ecosystems / naturerefuges / the _ nature _ refuges _ program. html
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