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Water monitoring group
he LDC has set up a Community Water
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Quality Monitoring Group, comprised of
local graziers.
These graziers will undertake water sampling
training in mid-September by TropWater.
The Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic
Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) is Australia’s
premier tropical aquatic research group and is
hosted by James Cook University.
Suite of training opportunities for graziers
HE LDC team has put together
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a suite of training opportunities
that could be useful for graziers in
the BBB.
It is not a complete list, and if you’re
interested in a particular area of
training, and it doesn’t appear here,
please contact the Bowen-based
grazing team.
Get on top of pigs
he LDC project will match
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landholders’ contributions towards
the cost of the aerial control of feral
pigs in the Whitsunday region.
For every landholder who pays the
$200 contribution to the Whitsunday
Regional Council’s 2018/19 annual
feral animal program, LDC will match
it.
Five activity areas in the LDC project
are five activity areas in the
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Landholders Driving Change Project:
l BBB Grazier Support;
l Landscape Remediation;
l Influencing Other Land Managers;
l Exploring New Incentives, and;
l Policy Engagement.
LANDHOLDERS
DRIVING CHANGE
BURDEKIN MAJOR INTEGRATED PROJECT
Grit, Issue 4, September, 2018 | P3