Quick links

Video tour of the Fitzroy Basin. Click here

What's on? Click here.

Positions Vacant? Click here.

Fix a virtual catchment! Play the ABC Catchment Detox Game. Click here .

Read all about it - Download the second issue of 'The Dirt':

The FBA has produced a second issue of its newspaper publication called ' The Dirt' with lots of interesting news and views about natural resource management from across the region including stories on:

  • Trialling subsurface drip irrigation to grow better pineapples
  • Water quality in the Fitzroy
  • Learning more about shorebirds in the Broadsound
  • Getting ready for a wallaby baby boom
  • How one family changed from a beef business to gourmet food

Essential Reading

FBA Annual Report 2008
Get a snapshot of what FBA achieved over the 2007-08 financial year. [pdf 1.0 Mb]


Fitzroy Basin home

The Fitzroy Basin Association Inc. (FBA) is a community-based organisation that promotes sustainable development in Central Queensland.

To achieve our vision of empowered communities for a sustainable CQ, we work with stakeholders across the region who have an interest in the use and management of our natural resources to provide planning direction, information, advice and practical support.

Our role is to promote sustainable development, both urban, rural and industrial, in the Fitzroy Basin through Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) processes.


INFORMATION ON WATER QUALITY TESTING

Fitzroy Basin Association Inc. (FBA) undertook water quality testing across the basin in October and December 2008 in response to concerns about water quality due to water being discharged from mines.  You can see where we tested and download the full set of results here.

FBA also regularly monitors 20 sites across the Fitzroy Basin as part of the Priority Neighbourhood Catchments Water Quality Monitoring project.  You can view and download baseline water quality data collected from these sites here.

What's New

Invitation to tender - NAP & NHT Review
The purpose of this study is to review implementation of the $25 million Regional Investment Strategy by the Fitzroy Basin Association funded by the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the extension of the Natural Heritage Trust. [pdf 35.2 kb]


The Economics of land regeneration
Our latest fact sheet in the 'Land' series. Learn more about a central Queensland case study to investigate the cost/benefit of regenerating degraded land to good health. [pdf 291.5 kb]


FBA E-Brief Autumn 2009
Learn more about FBA activities including our Beef 2009 display, and recent events to share innovative ideas, discover more about precision ag and natural sequence farming. [pdf 976.4 kb]


Assigning local water quality trigger values to coastal and marine assets
[pdf 1.3 Mb]


Mining Coal and Protecting Biodiversity: a solutions and options report for Queensland's Bowen Basin
A final draft version of this report. [pdf 1.1 Mb]


FBA E-Brief Spring 2008
[pdf 839.2 kb]


The Dirt - November 08
[pdf 1.1 Mb]


Does improved technology promote planning?
An evaluation of the effectiveness of funding landholders to purchase computer mapping and other technologies to promote improved property management planning. [pdf 400.1 kb]


FBA Annual Report 2008
Get a snapshot of what FBA achieved over the 2007-08 financial year. [pdf 1.0 Mb]


Carbon forum

On Friday 24 October in conjunction with the Annual General Meeting FBA hosted a forum on the risks and opportunities for agriculture associated with trading on the carbon market A diverse group of experts were brought together to deliver p [read more...]

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