32 | ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018
Project partners
NQ Dry Tropics’ work during
2017-2018 was funded and
supported through a number of
government and non-government
partnerships:
Australian Government
• National Landcare Program
• Reef Program
• Reef Trust I, II, III and IV
Queensland Government
• Queensland Regional Natural Resource Management
Investment Program
• Grazing BMP (Best Management Practice)
• Reef Water Quality Program
• Burdekin Major Integrated Project (Landholders
Driving Change)
• Reef Water Quality Science Program
Other funding
• Coca Cola Foundation
• Lower Burdekin Water
• Evolution Mining
Damien Tapiolas (Tapiolas Weed
Control), left, and Adam Heap
(Glencore Australia)
Dominique Hinchliffe( Burnett-Mary Regional Group),
left, with, from left, Rodger Walker (NQ Dry Tropics), Erin
Baldwin (Fitzroy Basin Association) and NQ Dry Tropics
staffers Eilis Walker and Neil Cupples
• Lend Lease
• Burdekin Shire Council
• Townsville City Council
• Glencore
• Bendigo Bank
• CSIRO
• Central Highlands Regional Resources Use Planning
Cooperative Ltd
• Black-throated Finch Trust
NQ Dry Tropics Grazing BMP Coordinator Lisa Hutchinson, right, with, from left,
Noel Brinsmead (Agforce Queensland GIS Technical Manager), Stephanie Tudehope
(grazier, Landers Creek Station, Millaroo), Peter Webley (Department of Natural
Resources, Mines and Energy) and Mark Howard (grazier, Woontonvale Station).