Completed Projects

The BDTB invested more than $3,619,800 across the Region in 2004-2005.

This funding included 34 contracts between the BDTB and Government agencies, and 52 contracts between the BDTB and Regional providers.

To find out more, click onto the project titles listed to your left.

• A Caring for Country Plan
• Natural Heritage Trust 2 Foundation Funding
  
• National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAPSWQ) Foundation Funding
• Property level rangelands grazing targets for the Northern Brigalow Belt
• Integrated community education and involvement in total water cycle management (Creek to Coral)
• Designing Incentives for Biodiversity Targets
  

Priority Action Proposals

• Improving Water Quality through Land Management Changes in the Bowen-Broken River Catchment – a Framework for Action (PAP1)

• Initiation of a Lower Burdekin Water Quality and Salinity Management Program (PAP2)

• Understanding Dryland Salinity in the Belyando Suttor (PAP3)

• Whole of Catchment Assessment and Prioritisation of Wetlands and Waterways (PAP4)

• Development and Implementation of a Community and Stakeholders NRM Infobase and Community Involvement Process for the Burdekin Dry Tropics Region (PAP5)

• Engaging Traditional Owner Participation in NAPSWQ in the Burdekin Dry Tropics (PAP6)

  Improving the Financial and Contract Administration of Priority Action Projects to Ensure Outcomes are achieved (PAP7)

• Desert Uplands Capacity Building for Sustainable Production and NRM (PAP8) 

  Increasing the Effectiveness of Community Engagement in the Management of Natural Resources in the Burdekin Dry Tropics (Community Coaches) PAP9

National Landcare Program

• Landcare Coordinator (NLP1)
• Revitalisation of Landcare of the Burdekin Dry Tropics Coastal Plains (NaREF & BBIFMAC) (NLP2)
• Piloting the Australian Landcare Management System (NLP3)
• Desert Uplands On Ground Landcare Support (NLP4)
• Combined SPIRAL and Continuing the Revitalisation of Landcare in the Burdekin Dry Tropics Coastal Plains (NLP5)

State-level Investment Program

• SE05 Designing Incentives for Achieving Biodiversity Targets in the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM Region with specific emphasis on the Bowen Broken and Bogie River sub catchments
  
• Tell me more about the State-level Investment Program (SIP)- link to Regional NRM Website
• SE03 Oral History and visual research methodologies as participatory tools to understand and integrate local and technical knowledge for natural resource management in the Desert Uplands (Desert Uplands Oral History Project)