The relatively small proportion of native habitat conserved in
protected
areas through National Parks, and other reserves, indicates a
focus is needed to manage biodiversity values on freehold and
leasehold land in cooperation with landholders.
Don’t read this if you know it already:
Why Farmers Care About Biodiversity
Cattle grazing is the main land use in the region. In the
grazing lands, the most important issues are invasion by weeds such
as rubber vine, chinee apple, bellyache bush, lantana and
parthenium, the use of fire as a management tool and damage to
habitats by livestock under particularly high grazing pressure.
Agriculture occupies a much smaller area of land in the region.
In the cropping lands, the most important issues are invasion by
exotic grasses such as paragrass, and the replanting of trees lost
from riparian systems.
The BDTNRM Biodiversity Programme has one significant
collaborative project underway to enable better integration of
biodiversity conservation with land management:
Great links
Bushfire CRC
website
Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc - email landcare@bigpond.net.au
Conservation
volunteers
Desert Uplands Committee
Fire
ecology and management in northern Australia
Fire
North
Greening
Australia
Landcare
Queensland
Land for Wildlife
Landmanager's
website
NRW
Climate change information
Queensland Water &
Land Carers
Useful resources
A Growing Concern ( order
printed copy )
Balancing production with nature conservation
Biodiversity:
what is it and why is it important?
Biograze
- Waterpoints and Wildlife booklet
Bushcare - Working with Local Government to Conserve our Native
Vegetation - 2000
Covenants for Conservation Brochure - 2004 ( order
printed copy )
Desert Uplands Strategic Land Resource Assessment
Gifts That Keep on Giving - A Landholders Guide to Land Protection
and Conservation Options - 2005 ( order
printed copy )
Incentives for Sustainable Land Management: Community cost sharing
to conserve biodiversity on private lands, A guide for local
government (Revised Edition) - 2001
Incentives for Conserving Biodiversity ( order
printed copy )
Indigenous Knowledge Helps Manage our Land ( order
printed copy )
Logs Have Life Inside Music and Education Kit - firewood
education kit (including House on Fire song)
Managing the Great Artesian Basin spring wetlands
Methodology for Survey and Mapping of Regional Ecosystems and
Vegetation Communities in Queensland
Native Grasses: a Boon to Graziers ( order
printed copy )
Native grassland: regional ecosystem 11.3.21 (65 KB)
Native Vegetation: A library of research and
resources for vegetation management from Greening Australia
http://www.greeningaustralia.org.au/nativevegetation/pages/index.html
Nature
refuges
NRW
essential habitat web page has information on how essential
habitat is applied under the VMA Codes.
Protecting Biodiversity: Part of Farming ( order
printed copy )
Revegetating Cleared Land ( order
printed copy )
Tax Incentives for Conservation - July 2004 ( order
printed copy )
The Effects of Artificial Sources of Water on Rangeland
Biodiversity - 1997
Vegetation
management information can be found on the NRW website: or from
your District NRW office.