Wet Tropics

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Qld's NRM Rumble: Fire management on track for endangered mahogany glider

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http://www.rgc.org.au/fire-management-on-track-for-endangered-mahogany-glider/?utm_source=Queensland+Regional+NRM+Group%27s+Collective&utm_campaign=c7db4b4da5-Queensland_s_NRM_Rumble_October_201210_22_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_23f30f7312-c7db4b4da5-6208301
This article, on the Qld Regional NRM Groups Collective website, discusses a project to enhance the habitat of the threatened Mahogany Glider through appropriate fire management. (May 2013)

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Terrain NRM eNews: Wet Tropics dairy farmers improve off-farm impacts

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http://www.terrain.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1364:dairy-farms-improving-off-farm-impacts&catid=28:reef-rescue-latest-news&Itemid=186&acm=800_105
The Queensland Dairyfarmers' Organisation (QDO) has released a series of short films on Reef Rescue Water Quality Incentive Grant (WQIG) projects that have taken place on dairy farms in the Wet Tropics region. This page contains links to the films. (April/May, 2013)

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Terrain NRM eNews: Leading Wet Tropics farmers recognised by Reef Rescue Awards

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http://www.terrain.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1380:leading-wet-tropics-farmers-recognised-by-reef-rescue-awards&catid=3:news&Itemid=152&acm=800_105
After a successful five years of the Federal Government Reef Rescue initiative, some of the Wet Tropic's leading land managers are being recognised for their best practice achievements with nominations for the inaugural Reef Rescue Awards. (April/May 2013)

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Terrain NRM eNews: Cyclone documentary available to Yasi-affected community

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http://www.terrain.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1375:cyclone-documentary-available-to-yasi-affected-community&catid=3:news&Itemid=152&acm=800_105
In 2012 Terrain NRM officially launched the Living in Cyclone Country: What We Learnt From Yasi documentary.The DVD shows how both community groups and government agencies worked to assist affected wildlife, specifically the endangered cassowary and mahogany glider species, both of which suffered from significant habitat destruction. (April/May 2013)

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Qld's NRM Rumble: Wet Tropics endangered species gets an $825k boost

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http://www.rgc.org.au/wet-tropics-endangered-species-gets-an-825k-boost/?utm_source=Queensland+Regional+NRM+Group%27s+Collective&utm_campaign=8e1d6ac80f-Queensland_s_NRM_Rumble_October_201210_22_2012&utm_medium=email
This article, on the Qld Regional NRM Groups Collective website, outlines the recently funded project, Building Resilience for Cassowary, Mahogany Glider and Littoral Rainforest. The project will increase and improve habitat by supporting on-ground action including revegetation, weed and pig control, fire management and fencing. (March, 2013)

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Terrain NRM eNews: Small wetlands make for big gains

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http://www.terrain.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1261:small-wetlands-make-for-big-gains&catid=3:news&Itemid=152
A Mossman landholder plans on keeping his sediment and nutrients in the upcoming wet season with help from a number of partners. Not only has he constructed a wetland on his property, but seeks to link important habitat corridors from the hills to the coast. (November, 2012)

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Terrain NRM eNews: River neck protection

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http://www.terrain.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1264:stopping-a-break-in-the-bend&catid=3:news&Itemid=152
The North Johnstone River is threatening to change course across a narrow neck of land on the Hanrahan's Farm near Malanda potentially affecting water quality and availability of productive land over a large area. A low cost solution is being attempted to tackle what could be a large and expensive problem. (November 2012)

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Terrain NRM eNews: On a dune to recovery

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http://www.terrain.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1263:on-a-dune-to-recovery&catid=4:media-releases&Itemid=124
Over 300 volunteers have been helping revegetate local beaches in the Cassowary Coast region which wore the brunt of Cyclone Yasi. (Tuesday, 13/11/2012)

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Management Project: Warril Creek extension of riparian vegetation (Landcare)

Kuranda Envirocare has been working for over ten years to conserve and repair biodiversity and to educate the Kuranda community to value and protect biodiversity. New plantings have helped to restore the gallery forest along Warril Creek, providing shade over shallows, in turn this has assisted water quality and provided frog spawning areas as well as maintaining biodiversity and aiding erosion control.

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ABC Rural News: Banana levy for emergencies moves a step closer

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http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201210/s3601869.htm
Banana growers have moved one step closer to paying a levy which would help them respond to a serious pest incursion. The industry signed up to the Emergency Pest Plant Response deed in 2004 and has only now introduced a levy to meets its obligations under the cost sharing arrangements. (Tuesday, 02/10/2012)

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