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The Project and its objectives
Implemented through a Property Management
Planning framework, this project will
- Broaden the production focus of beef producers in the Bowen,
Broken, Bogie sub catchment to achieve a greater level of adoption
of sustainable grazing land management practices through capacity
building activities including those centred on sharing
information
- Increase producers understanding of landscape function, soil
including soil condition and erosion processes
- Increase the number of producers, in a priority hotspot, who
have completed Property Management Plans
- Incorporate grazing management strategies for erosion prone
areas and Grazing BMP Guidelines for WQ developed through the
Coastal Catchment Initiative into capacity and property management
planning activities
- Provide producers with financial and technical support to
prioritise management interventions and a staged approach of
management strategies and actions to achieve recovery of degraded
areas with the aim of moving towards greater sustainability,
increased profitability and reduced sediment export
- Provide financial and technical support for the establishment
of Producer Demonstration Sites and Producer Initiated
Demonstration Sites
- Produce a range of materials including case studies to expand
the accessibility of producer learnings, on ground actions and
outcomes
NRM issues which the project addresses
The NRM issues which this project will address are
- land degradation and declining soil and pasture condition
- insufficient levels of community engagement and capacity
- decline in extension services and other technical support
National Landcare Programme Outcomes
Producers in the Bowen, Broken, Bogie have chosen not to
establish a landcare group, but share the ‘Landcare
ethos’. This project supports and will work with and through
the existing producer networks, including their industry bodies.
This engagement strategy offers expanded opportunities for the
inclusion of industry, local government and broader community in
the implementation of this project and better matches engagement
strategies and tools to motivations, preferences and capacities
Addressing the causes of erosion, planning at the landscape
level and implementing action at the property or paddock scale
ensures that on ground activities are strategic and well targeted.
For a subcatchment which is believed to deliver almost a quarter of
the total suspended sediment load to the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon,
reductions in that load through training and capacity building
combined with Producer Demonstration sites and other on ground
works will deliver demonstrable public benefit outcomes.
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