Projects funded under the Natural Resource Management Expansion Program

More than $6.96 million in funding has been awarded to 4 projects, delivered by 3 regional natural resource management (NRM) organisations, helping protect and restore Queensland’s natural landscapes.

Gulf Savannah NRM—Northern Gulf Resource Management Group Ltd

The Improving condition of Native Riparian Vegetation by Tackling the Neem Threat in the Gilbert River Catchment project will target the removal of neem trees, including the removal of an historical need planation, resulting in:

• 100 hectares of improved native riparian vegetation along the Gilbert River
• 1,580 hectares of improved grazing land condition.

The Restoring the ecological value of springs forming part of the groundwater dependent ecosystems of the Great Artesian Basin (GAB) project will improve 12 hectares of GAB spring wetlands in the Northern Gulf NRM region by managing feral pigs, cattle, weeds and undertaking revegetation works.

NRM Regions Queensland—Queensland Regional Natural Resource Management Groups Collective Ltd

The Measuring and Communicating our on-ground impact project will:

• develop new and improved methods to monitor and collect evidence-based data to demonstrate the impact of projects
• build on the Queensland Government’s investment in the State-wide Indicators Framework (SWIF).

Terrain NRM—FNQ NRM Ltd

The Green Connections—Regional nature repair for climate resilience project will improve the extent and condition of 75 hectares of threatened ecological communities and native vegetation across the Wet Tropics region.