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• Download PDF of NRM Plan
• NRM planning framework

Our Region

• About the Burdekin Dry Tropics region
• Our priorities
• Regional scene setting
• Resource-reliant enterprises
• Sub-regional systems
  • Belyando-Suttor
  • Bowen catchments & offshore
  • Burdekin Rangelands
  • Lower Burdekin & offshore
  • Townsville coastal plains & offshore

People Connections

• Traditional Owners
• Rural land managers & communities
• Urban NRM
• NRM Community groups
• Government
• Researchers
• NRM Plan delivery & success indicators for People Connections

Climate change

• Climate of the Burdekin Dry Tropics region
• Changes to climate and its impacts
• Burdekin Dry Tropics’ emissions & carbon exchange
• Managing carbon
  1. Efficient and renewable energy and fuel resources
  2. Using natural resources for carbon capture
  3. Natural resource and community resilience
• NRM Plan delivery & success indicators for Climate Change

Land

• Land use planning in the Burdekin Dry Tropics
• Land management in the Burdekin Dry Tropics
• ABCD frameworks for land condition and management
• Grazing land systems
  • 3P grasses
  • Landtypes
• Cropping and horticulture land systems
• Regional opportunities
• NRM Plan delivery & success indicators for Land

Water

• Water Resources in the Burdekin Dry Tropics Region
  1. Surface flows
  2. Groundwater
  3. Wet ecosystems
     • Basins, Catchments & Sub-catchments of the Burdekin Dry Tropics
• Water use & Water allocation
  • Burdekin Falls Dam
• Water quality
  1. Black Ross (Townsville) WQIP
  2. Burdekin WQIP
• Future water demands
• Lower Burdekin sub-catchment ground and surface water interaction issues
• Bowen Gumlu Agricultural District
• NRM Plan delivery & success indicators for Water

Biodiversity

• Our region’s biodiversity
  1. Terrestrial diversity
  2. Wetlands and coastal diversity
     • Directory of Important Wetlands occurring in the Burdekin Dry Tropics region
  3. Offshore diversity
  4. Flora and fauna species diversity
     • Black-throated Finch
• Main threats to biodiversity
  1. Native vegetation clearing and condition
  2. Weeds and feral pests
  3. Fire regimes
  4. Active land use
  5. Marine debris
  6. Offshore use
• Improving biodiversity management
• NRM Plan delivery & success indicators for Biodiversity

Tools & Maps

• Reference library
• NRM Online tools
• Static maps (pdf)
• Site map