Central Queensland's land and water assets are under pressure from
low ground cover, salinity, and pests, as well as specific land use
pressures. However land managers are moving to more
sustainable practices and as a result pressures causing low ground
cover and erosion, and other deteriorations in land condition may
already be diminishing.
The
Sustainable Landscapes
program is working to achieve sustainable, productive and
profitable agricultural land management, improve land condition
throughout the region and enhance the quality of water delivered to
creeks, rivers and the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. The primary focus
of this program is on addressing land use and management practices
impacting on ground cover as the primary pressure affecting soil
condition, water quality and biodiversity.
FBA's approach to sustainability in our region is called Integrated
Catchment Management (ICM) which provides a way for communities to
work together towards common goals and to build up to a broader,
catchment-wide outcomes.
The program incorporates the neighbourhood catchments approach
– the primary delivery mechanism for implementation of the
CQSS2, through integrated, holistic and strategic delivery on
targets at the landscape scale. A
Neighbourhood Catchment
consists of a group of landholders located in a common
catchment. Neighbours working together can address natural
resource concerns at the property scale as individuals and at the
Neighbourhood Catchment scale as a group.
The Sustainable Landscapes program offers help with property
management planning, including training, technical support and
resources for landholders involved in Neighbourhood Catchment
groups.
Click on the following links for more information about specific
aspects of the Sustainable Landscapes Program.
