Overview and timeline of LDC project
andholders Driving Change is one of two Major
L Barrier
Integrated projects (MIPs) recommended by the Great
reef Water Science Taskforce.
The other MIP aims to reduce nutrient and pesticide
runoff from cane and banana farms in the Wet Tropics
region.
The Queensland Government has committed $33 million
to fund the MIPs, which aim to concentrate efforts at a
catchment scale, and evaluate their effectiveness.
They are funded through the Queensland Reef Water
Quality Program.
Erosion is a big issue in the dry tropics of North
Queensland.
It causes valuable topsoil, primarily from grazing lands,
to wash downstream, carrying fine sediment particles
that reduce the amount of
light needed by coral reefs
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and seagrass to grow and thri
aims to tackle erosion and imp
productivity and reef water qu
In August 2017, Queensland
and Heritage Protection, and
and the Great Barrier Reef app
for the NQ Dry Tropics Major
It was renamed Landholders