16 Traditional Owner Groups

~240,000 people live in the region

>90% of the region grazing land

~146,000 square kilometre area (8% of Queensland)

~0.8% of region sugarcane land (1/4 of Australia’s total annual cane supply)

<1% of region forestry land

~6% of region conserved land - 25 National Parks

Burdekin Community Survey 2015

500 km coastline of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area; part of the Wet Tropics World Herit

34 nationally important wetlands - 1 Ramsar wetland

1,860,000 megalitres of water stored in Burdekin Falls Dam (4 times Sydney Harbour)

21 endangered species; 2 critically endangered