This update represents just a handful among the hundreds of NRM projects happening across Australia, which are made possible through funding from the Australian Government and respective State/Territory governments.
All sandy beaches in the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac regions are considered to be possible marine turtle nesting sites. It is estimated that approximately 100 turtles nest in this region every year.
Reef Catchments NRM (QLD) will be holding two community planting events at Seaforth and Grasstree Beach to mitigate the effects of artificial lighting disorientating nesting and hatching turtles. Mainly shrubs and grasses will be planted to provide a buffer and reduce the impact on ocean views.
An endangered plant species has been found on the Lower Snowy River. Bolwarra or Eupomatia laurina is sometimes known as Copper Laurel or Native Guava.
It was found by contractors undertaking weed maintenance works for East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (EGCMA).
EGCMA’s acting CEO Amber Clarke said, ‘with everyone working together over a long time, we have seen positive changes to the river, and to find this endangered species flourishing is very exciting’.
In February, Oceanwatch Australia held the fourth annual Tide to Tip clean-up event, which sees oyster growers from across NSW and interstate working together with local community groups to clean-up their estuaries and foreshores.
This year, 20 clean-ups and 211 volunteers removed 11,870kgs of marine debris. Across the four years of Tide to Tip, Oceanwatch and volunteers have removed over 42 tonnes of rubbish, completing clean-ups across NSW, QLD and WA. This year they also held competitions for the largest clean-up, most bizarre item, and an entry prize.
Click here or on the image to the left to learn more about the work being done.
North Coast Local Land Services is once again sponsoring this year’s Primex 2023. As the region continues to recover from last year’s floods, landholders, primary producers and visitors will be able to access help and information at the North Coast Local Land Services stand.
“We will have our team on the ground for all three days of the event providing information and support to landholders who are facing difficult decisions about how to manage their land in these changed conditions”.
Primex 2023 runs for 3 day, opening 9am, 11 May and the North Coast Local Land Services stand is located at Site A2/A3.
Image of NC LLS team at the Grafton Show 2023
With the 2022 unregulated flows supporting significant breeding events in Gunbower Forest across the northern wetlands in Victoria, large numbers of juvenile waterbirds are being recorded.
For the first 2-3 years of their life, young waterbirds need large amounts of food and are especially vulnerable to starvation, habitat loss, predation, and the impacts of climate change before they get to breeding age.
Victorian Environmental Water Holder and North Central Catchment Management Authority (CMA) are planning an environmental flow in Gunbower Forest this winter and spring, to provide nourishment for hungry young waterbirds.
Territory NRM Pastoral Officer Matt Fogarty recently attended the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association Conference to meet with pastoralists about some of the programs on offer including the Territory Conservation Agreement Program.
Territory NRM has established close to 50 Territory Conservation Agreements across the northern Territory since 2011, spanning more than 60,000 hectares to assist producers in protecting the areas of conservation significance.
The 10-year voluntary agreements are designed to integrate management for native vegetation and biodiversity into production regimes and property business plans.
As well as being one of Australia’s most at-risk freshwater fish, the Swan Galaxias is also one of our most mysterious. Confined to remote locations, only a handful of fragmented and fragile populations remain.
Over the last few months, NRM South in Tasmania has been working with Tasmania’s Inland Fisheries Service and CSIRO to identify suitable new translocation sites and, over the past couple of weeks, 120 fish from four separate populations were moved to new locations.
On the 10th of March 2023, Priscilla and Taj from the Northern Agricultural Catchments Council (NACC) NRM’s Aboriginal Custodianship team visited Holland Street School to teach the children Indigenous cultural history and awareness.
The team spoke about how traditional fire burning is good for country and good for the soil, as well as about the Emu in the stars and explained the time of the year Emu’s would lay their precious eggs.
Aboriginal Custodianship administration trainee, Kyiesha said ‘Being my first visit to Holland Street School, it was nice to see them work as a team to do something that involved Aboriginal culture’.
Drone technology is tackling a plague of infestation of the pest plant noogoora burr, that has travelled 19km along Amyton Creek near Willowie, South Australia.
12 landholders are involved in the Northern and Yorke Landscape Board project that aims to eradicate the weed and prevent it from moving further downstream.
The process involved a drone contractor mapping a 100 metre-wide stretch of the 19km terrain with a specialised mapping drone that takes high resolution video and distinguishes the noogoora burr from native vegetation based on colour identification.