Projects / Programs
ABC Rural News: Doubts mount about Darwin abbatoir
Construction of the Darwin abattoir project in the Northern Territory has stalled and speculation is mounting that it may be abandoned altogether. The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) contracted Sunbuild to begin construction late last year at Livingstone, 50 kilometres south of Darwin, but the building company has since been removed from the site. (Friday, 19/04/2013)
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Management Project: Soils4Grazing
The Soils4Grazing project is a partnership between Southern Gulf Catchments NRM group and FutureBeef. The project is investigating the use of mechanical treatments to restore productive grazing land, increase vegetation cover, and promote carbon sequestration. It aims to identify the most suitable methods for different land types.
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Landcare NT: TCA funding helps production and the environment
This article, on the Landcare NT blog, outlines the Territory Conservation Agreement at Lakefield Station on the Sturt Plateau. It contains a video in which pastoralist Garry Riggs discusses the project. (Thursday, 25/10/2012)
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Qld's NRM Rumble: Improving water quality through watering points
This article, on the Qld Regional NRM Groups Collective website, details the work done by farmers in the Fitzroy Basin, the largest catchment draining to the Great Barrier Reef, to construct fences and watering points to keep cattle away from streams and creeks. (March, 2013)
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Queensland's NRM Rumble: Improving biodiversity through grazing management in the Southern Gulf region
This article, on the Qld Regional NRM Groups Collective website, details the work done by Southern Gulf Catchments with landholders to protect priority habitat areas in the Southern Gulf of Carpentaria catchments, as part of the Back on Track – Actions for Biodiversity project. (March, 2013)
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ABC Rural News: Report backs building an abattoir in north-west Queensland
A report on the feasibility of a meatworks in the Queensland's north-west has found a competing abattoir in Darwin wouldn't have a significant detrimental effect. (Friday, 05/10/2012)
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Management Project - Changing pastoral practices in the WA rangelands - implementing ESRM
Improved soil condition through improved total grazing management across 506 000ha of WA pastoral land will be achieved. This follows renewed interest by pastoralists wanting to implement their Ecologically Sustainable Rangelands Management plans since the break of a seven-year drought. This will be supported by Bestprac-style Action Learning Groups. (Text from Caring for our Country funding – accessed 23 February 2012)
People involved: Rangelands NRM Co-ordinating Group
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Management Project - Making Production and Conservation Gains Through Adaptive Grazing: Beetaloo Pilot
This project will quantify the potential for sustainably intensifying production on the NT Barkly Tablelands through adaptive grazing principles. Producer trials will be established to demonstrate practices that increase herd productivity, contribute to soil carbon sequestration, maintain productive native pasture ecosystems and increase water use efficiency. (Text from Caring for our Country funding - accessed 21 February 2012)
People involved: Barkly Landcare and Conservation Association
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Management Project - Protecting refugial Western Australian EPBC-listed Threatened species
This project will prevent population decline of five threatened species listed under the EPBC Act via the management of herbivore grazing and weed invasion. It will also improve population diversity through the translocation of some individuals. (Text from Caring for our Country funding - accessed 21 February 2012)
People involved: WA Department of Environment and Conservation
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.Link to the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation’s website. This site contains links to information about the Western Australian environment and government legislation to protect it.
Centralian Land Management Association EMU program - factsheet
A fact sheet on the Ecosystem Management Understanding (EMU) program - a whole ecosystem planning and monitoring approach to land management on pastoral properties.
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