CONTENTS
Learning hub to trial new approaches
Learning hub springs to life after ripper rain
Grazier lends nature a hand with his dozer
New life for eroding gully
Water monitoring delivers crystal clear message
Successful collaborative partnerships
Peer to peer learning
Scottville mob
Collective wisdom a fount of knowledge
Normanby bunch
Eungella push
Graziers scratch below the surface for answers
Regulation: stakeholders get a say
Reef protection regulations
The foundation is complete, it’s time to accelerate
BBB grazing support
Landscape remediation
Looking beyond the project
Influencing other land managers
Glencore supports remediation efforts
Finding common ground
Region’s first community washdown facilit
Weed prevention is everyone’s business
Grader workshops for soil conservation
Policy engagement
Bringing graziers and government to the table
Reef regulations
Policy roundtable
Exploring new incentives
Incentives to knock down barriers
Monitoring and evaluation
Governance
A new way of managing natural resources
The LDC model - doing things differently and
getting results
LDC’s delivery partners and collaborators
To help achieve these targets, the Great Barrier Reef (GBR)
Water Science Taskforce recommended the implementation
of two Major Integrated Projects (MIPs) — one in the
Burdekin Dry Tropics, and the other in the Wet Tropics.
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The Burdekin MIP, known as Landholders Driving Change
(LDC), is piloting land management and repair approaches
at a catchment scale, and evaluating their effectiveness in
improving water quality and long-term sustainable land
management.
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The Queensland and Australian governments’ Reef 2050
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catchments by 2025.
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LDC is concentrating efforts in the Bowen, Broken, Bogie
(BBB) catchment, near Bowen and Collinsville. The BBB
produces almost a quarter of the total fine sediment load
that ends up in the GBR lagoon. About 65 per cent of fine
sediment comes from gully erosion.
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Cover image: Shane and Rebecca Lathwell and their sons, of
Havilah Station near Collinsville.
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