Fairlight Landcare Group

Regional natural resource management organisation

Fairlight Landcare - Biodiversity Recovered on the Canterbury Tablelands and Fairlight Creek

The Fairlight Landcare - Biodiversity Recovered on the Canterbury Tablelands and Fairlight Creek project aims to target and treat two Weeds of National Significance, prickly acacia and rubber vine, on basalt tablelands and riparian zones of Fairlight Creek, a tributary of the Flinders River, north of Hughenden, northwest Queensland. Fairlight Landcare wants to continue our weed control work and with careful management and reseeding of native pastures where necessary. The reclaimed area will be able to redevelop into sustainable natural ecosystems.

South Myall Catchment Landcare Group Inc

Incorporated group or organisation

Improving management of native habitat and steep, erosion prone grazing land in South Myall Catchment.

Improve remnants and open woodland by linking existing vegetation to tree plantings. Increase regeneration of natural habitat by reducing the impact of lantana (a Weed of National Significance), rabbits and excessive grazing pressure. Increase ground cover by revegetation with native and adapted perennial pasture species and adopting advanced farming cultural practices to reduce sediment loss and water runoff from steep, hilly country. This will be done by (1) targeting serious lantana and other environmentally damaging woody weed outbreaks resulting from years of low rainfall and over-grazing and (2) providing workshops and field days conducted by technical leaders in the field to build on previously successful projects to reinforce and enhance adoption of better knowledge and management practices (farming, grazing and land management) now that climatic conditions have improved substantially.

Landcare Queensland Ltd

Landcare group

Urban NRM Campaign for Community Action in Queensland

This project will involve a marketing campaign for a new Caring for our Country Landcare day event to be piloted in Queensland during Landcare week (similar to a clean-up Australia day).

The campaign will encourage people to 'give a day to the environment' and assist Landcare groups to do a local project such as revegetation, weed removal or wildlife surveys. When possible, participants will be encouraged to apply what they learn on the day, at home, or learn more by joining their local Landcare group.

Fitzroy River and Coastal Catchments Inc

Incorporated group or organisation

Engaged community groups for rapid uptake of hillslope, reef rescue and sustainable farm practices

Through this project, the activities of five Landcare and other volunteer NRM groups covering approximately 45 per cent of the Fitzroy River and Coastal Catchments sub-region will be directed towards driving lasting and positive change in the health of the Lower Fitzroy environment. This project will service five key groups in the Lower Fitzroy and provide them with devolved grants to implement projects of high local priority that will increase the capacity of landholders to rapidly adopt sustainable farm practices and deliver hillslope and reef rescue outcomes.

Highfields Cooby Catchment Landcare Group

Landcare group

Highfields Cooby Catchment Landcare Group

A simple, practical model already trialled and proven will be implemented to achieve improved Biodiversity and Sustainable Farming outcomes, by recognising good land management practices in a catchment transiting from traditional farming practices to small lifestyle landholdings. The model provides a non-regulatory approach that natural resource managers can Triple A - adopt, adapt, apply - to engage a diversity of landholders to achieve biodiversity and land management outcomes.

Queensland Primary Industries & Fisheries (the State of Queensland through the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation.

State or Territory Government

Introducing a perennial legume into pastures to increase ground cover and soil carbon in the Condamine catchment.

This project will conduct on-farm learning and development activities with 40 producers in the Bowenville/Quinalow district of the Condamine Catchment to achieve permanent land management change which will meet hillslope erosion and soil carbon targets. Activities will increase stakeholder's capacity to establish and manage grass-pastures incorporating a perennial legume.The perennial nature and high ground cover of grass-pastures provide long term, sustainable mechanisms to minimise erosion and maximise soil carbon levels. However soil nutrient rundown in grass-only pastures is well recognised as being the cause of declining biomass production and thinning plant stands. This issue impacts negatively on the pasture's capacity to provide adequate ground cover to stop erosion leading to increased grazing pressure and ultimately a decline in land condition. Inappropriate grazing management exacerbates this issue; however changing management practices is not the solution to address the primary cause.

North East Downs (NED) Landcare Group

Landcare group

Reducing erosion and improving soil carbon levels in the mid to upper slopes of the north-east Darling Downs

This project will address hillslope erosion and declining soil carbon on the mid to upper slopes of the north east Darling Downs by encouraging and supporting management practices that maximise groundcover, reduce grazing pressure, and build soil carbon levels.

The basis of this project will be a capacity building component linked to specific on-ground activities, which will include:

• Pasture cropping training workshops linked to incentives to trial pasture cropping as an activity to rejuvenate native pastures and improve the potential for building soil carbon
• Grazing management and pasture monitoring training linked to incentives for improved property layout to reduce grazing pressure and erosion
• Returning steep and degraded hillslope cultivation to permanent pasture

Private Forestry Southern Queensland

Incorporated group or organisation

Re-vegnet.au

Revegnet.au has been developed to progress through a logical flow from definition of best management forest, reafforestation and revegetation practices, mapping and risk assessment of priority areas, the improvement in skill and capacity building of landholders, developing property management plans and the implementation of those plans via an incentive program for on-ground works. These works will include fencing riparian areas and unstable drainage lines, revegetating recharge zones, linking fragmented essential habitat forests and improving the health, ground cover and productivity of overstocked regrowth forests. Revegnet.au will ensure a network of critical endangered ecological communities buffered and linked via reafforestation to allow for a resilient recharge/discharge of biodiversity functions across the landscape.

Granite Borders Landcare Committee Incorporated

Landcare group

Preventing Hill Slope Erosion through Improved Grazing Management in the Traprock Region of Southern QLD

This project will engage landholders in the "Traprock" area of southern Queensland in activities that reduce hill slope erosion in the fragile undulating landscape that they manage. Hillslope erosion is a major issue in this area due to extensive tree clearing activities for livestock grazing, heavy grazing with sheep and the dispersible nature of the soils.This project will raise awareness of landholders as to the environmental and sustainability losses incurred through this hillslope erosion and offer incentives for changes in management practices to reduce the risk of this erosion. Grazing management changes will be made from set stocking to a rotational grazing system, requiring fencing and other infrastructure. This rotational grazing system will allow for rest and recovery periods for grasslands, thus increasing ground cover and reducing hillslope erosion.

Murilla Landcare Group Inc

Landcare group

"Enable Land managers to return cultivated hillslope areas to pasture to reduce erosion"

Engage 11 Landholder within the Drillham/Dulacca Landcare groups in projects that reduce runoff and erosion on 1448 ha of hillslope pasture land.
Object:

• Improve ground cover through pasture establishment on cultivation land following prolonged drought
• Reduce hillslope soil erosion
• Reduce rainfall runoff and sedimentation
• Improve soil carbon and nitrogen levels in soil
• Improve soil health, soil bio-mass
• Improve soil water holding capacity
• Adoption of best practice grazing management
• Reduce production restraints and create long term profitability

South East Burnett Landcare Group Inc

Landcare group

Premium Practice in Burnett Land Management

Our vision is to promote the adoption of sustainable land management practices to preserve the valuable resource base and ecosystem services of the area and to stimulate financially viable and environmentally sustainable, vibrant rural communities.We wish to establish a sustainable land management Centre of Excellence within our area to show other land managers how to adopt improved practices. The 'centre', as a collection of demonstration sites, designed and monitored with scientific input, would allow land managers to view and ask questions about the practical day-to-day steps required to implement sustainable practices and incorporate them in to their long term land management strategies.We have a proven capacity as Local People Providing Local Solutions and we wish to build our knowledge, our networks and our operational capacity in order to continue to provide this valuable service to the land management communities within our reach, now and in the future.

North East Downs (NED) Landcare Group

Landcare group

Protecting and enhancing smaller patches of endangered remnant native vegetation in the north east Darling Downs

This project will protect and enhance 1,000 hectares of small patches of remnant endangered native vegetation on private land in the North East Darling Downs region of southern Queensland. There are many small patches of endangered vegetation (semi-evergreen vine thicket, Brigalow, box-gum and Queensland bluegrass) on landholders properties that are too small to be mapped under the Queensland Vegetation Management Act, but are nevertheless considered to have a very high conservation value. We will implement an environmental stewardship program that will assist landholders to protect, better manage and enhance these patches to ensure their long term survival.