Completed Projects
The Northern Gulf Resource Management Group working under the Natural Heritage Trust program completed many projects throughout the region in the following categories:
- Land
- Harnessing the power of technology
- SavannaPlan – our grazing land management package in action
- Improving productivity and landscape condition
- Establishing environmental duty of care with graziers
- Landscape health restored through managing weeds
- A rehabilitation plan for the Gilbert River – a ‘whole of river’ approach
- Incentives making a difference
- Biodiversity
- Learning about the region’s biodiversity
- Working with fire in the rangelands
- Incentives for biodiversity
- Understanding ‘ecosystem services’
- Freshwater
- Learning about aquatic animals in the Gilbert and Staaten Rivers
- An inventory of freshwater habitats
- An assessment of the condition of our riparian corridors
- Taking a remote sensing approach to understand gully erosion
- Determining water quality in the upper Walsh River
- Eradicating tilapia and preventing their introduction into the region’s waterways
- Coastal and Marine
- Planning for the Mutton Hole wetlands underway
- A recreational fishing survey in the Gulf
- Pingers to reduce impacts on marine mammals
- Gulf communities working together on ghost nets
- Establishing community monitoring of sawfish
- Community Empowerment
- The region’s Indigenous community working together
- Capturing traditional knowledge
- Supporting activities in the Mitchell River catchment
A celebration of these projects is contained in the “Northern Gulf’s Little Book of Big Achievements”. Click here to view the book.