Terrain NRM

"You are looking at a really thick healthy revegetation site. Some of the trees are now 12m high." - Terrain NRM's Evizel Seymour showing people Thirlmere Gully as part of a workshop on forest restoration methods by the Wet Tropics Restoration Alliance. Most of the waterways on this Malanda property have been revegetated. After the latest planting, as part of a Terrain project in 2019, the area was heavily mulched (20-30cm thick) to reduce follow-up maintence for the landholder. And it worked well. There was also experimentation with tree species over the years. With 60+ people at this workshop, it was a great chance to share knowlege on restoration of forests in the Wet Tropics region. Terrain NRM's Jacqui Diggins spoke about woodlands and the challenges of encroaching rainforest, Terrain NRM Board Director Dr Noel Preece shared his experiences using and assessing varying revegetation methods, former Terrain NRM Director Peter Rowles from C4 talked about trials to reduce costs of Miyawaki plantings, landholder Bess Murphy shared results of direct seeding pioneer species at Garriya Nature Refuge in Topaz, Alliance coordinator kylie Freebody spoke on assisted natural regeneration and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service's Peter Snodgrass talked about a Massey Creek wide-spaced revegetation trial. The Wet Tropics Restoration Alliance is a coalition of organisations - and it's open to any organisation or individual with an interest in working together to ensure the survival of Wet Tropics forests in a changing and unstable climate. For more information about the alliance, visit: https://lnkd.in/gTVdCwD3 Wet Tropics Management Authority James Cook University Rainforest Rescue The School for Field Studies Landcare Australia Mossman Botanic Garden Jabalbina Aboriginal Corporation GreenCollar Queensland Trust for Nature Greening Australia #revegetation #forestrestoration #wettropics

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists at the weekend's Cassowary Awards in the Wet Tropics region, celebrating community contributions to world heritage management. Terrain NRM was the proud sponsor of the People Country Culture Award, won by the Madjaybana Ranger program. Rangers have mapped cultural sites, documented story lines and language names, plotted ancestral walking trails, repaired degraded riverine land, collected litter polluting waterways and monitored mangrove forests and water quaity since the program began in 2020. Mandjandji Elders have shared cultural, historical and traditional ecological knowledge of the minya (fauna) and mayi (flora) with rangers, increasing cultural knowledge in management of the land. Thanks to the Wet Tropics Management Authority for this annual event. #Mandjandji #Madjaybana #rainforestaboriginalpeoples #wettropics Barry J Hunter Stewart Christie

There are some great speakers lined up for this 'fish-focused forum' at James Cook University next Thursday. Tickets are $10 (includes catering) for a day of all things fish, fish science, fishing...

Wetlands filter water running off the land – and they’re so good at it that treatment wetlands are being engineered in boggy areas of farmland to help process nutrients and sediment and improve water quality. In this video, you'll see a constructed wetland in Tully which was built five years ago. It’s reducing nitrogen levels in the water - so we've continued monitoring to find out just how effective wetlands like this could be as a wider-scale solution. Hear from Terrain NRM’s Alicia Buckle as well Wet Tropics Waterways Greg Vinall and James Cook University’s Nathan Waltham. And take a look at beautiful Barrett’s Lagoon, a natural wetland south of Tully, from above… Watch the video here: https://lnkd.in/gh7HFVdi This monitoring project is part of the Tully Johnstone Water Quality Program, funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Terrain is working with James Cook University, Griffith University and scientists from the Queensland Government’s departments of Environment and Science and Agriculture and Fisheries. The constructed wetlands at Tully and Innisfail were built as part of the Wet Tropics Major Integrated Project, funded by the Queensland Government’s Queensland Reef Water Quality Program. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water TULLY SUGAR LIMITED CANEGROWERS Australia TropWATER: JCU's Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (Queensland) Department of Environment, Science and Innovation #Tully #wetlands #sediment #nitrogen #reeftrust

It makes sense for the Wet Tropics to be at the leading edge in the transition to circular economy models – that treat ‘waste’ as a resource and encourage innovative thinking about how we can create new opportunities.  The Wet Tropics region is underpinned by its natural resources - our amazing natural environment brings tourists and our agricultural sector is reliant on healthy natural capital. But these natural resources are under pressure. Here's what's happening and what needs to happen... #circulareconomy #zerowaste #naturalresources #smartgreeneconomy #bananaflour #coffeewaste #coffeegrounds #organicfertiliser #wettropics

Less soil is being lost to creeks and rivers in our region thanks to solutions like rock chutes for eroded gullies, pile fields for streambank erosion, and changed grazing practices. The combined impact of 10 erosion-control structures, and grazing management changes across six cattle stations, is keeping thousands of tonnes of soil on the land each wet season and stopping an estimated 4,500 tonnes of the really fine soil particles (the equivalent of 225 semi-trailer loads) from becoming sediment on the Great Barrier Reef each year. Seven farming families have been working with us for the last seven years on changes that range from dividing paddocks up and rotating cattle differently to building up vegetation coverage where rock chutes and bund walls have been built to stop gullies from eroding any further. We've also held 50+ landholder workshops on soil health, grazing management practices, hydrology and business planning, with hundreds of participants, and undertaken vegetation and land condition surveys to assess soil health and changes in pasture. Graziers are saying the results include better pastures: “We’ve seen a marked improvement in the condition of country. What we are seeing is more feed and better-quality feed. We’ve fenced to cut paddocks up and we’re now running bigger numbers of cattle on smaller areas rather than the reverse, which is the traditional approach.’’ - Woodleigh Station's Pete Waddell Terrain NRM has been implementing change through the Upper Herbert Sediment Reduction Project, funded by the partnership between the Australian Government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, and the Herbert Gully and Grazing Project, funded through the Australian Government’s Reef Trust IV program. These projects have targeted the Herbert River catchment because it is one of Queensland’s five highest contributors of fine sediment to the Great Barrier Reef. Here's a link to our final video for the Upper Herbert project: "Keeping Soil on the Land - Erosion Control to Help Farmers and the Reef". https://lnkd.in/gK8gwpD4 #erosion #sediment #grazing #greatbarrierreef #reeftrust Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Great Barrier Reef Foundation Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources

Congratulations Nyoka Hrabinsky, Chelsea Perry and Tara Ganley - the recipients of our 2024 Indigenous Student Bursaries and three inspiring women. It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know Nyoka, Chelsea and Tara and we look forward to helping them in the environmental and natural resource management sectors. All three are studying environmental science at James Cook University. Noyoka Hrabinsky's story is told here: https://lnkd.in/gaRh5j4M This bursary program is a Terrain NRM Board of Directors initiative. Now in its fourth year, it was introduced to encourage more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to become future leaders in natural resource management. The program includes financial support and networking opportunities in the NRM sector. #naturalresourcemanagement #environment James Cook University TAFE Queensland Barry J Hunter Noel Preece Lucy Friend Gabrielle Davidson Zsuzsa Banhalmi-Zakar Pete Faulkner GAICD Kara-Glenn Worth

See you at the Queensland Decarbonisation Forum. Terrain NRM Chair Barry Hunter will be in good company as a panellist speaking on how to include nature or environmental integrity in decarbonisation decision-making. Brisbane, Friday 2 August. For details: Summary - Queensland Decarbonisation Forum (griffith.edu.au) The University of Queensland University of Southern Queensland QUT (Queensland University of Technology) James Cook University Queensland Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance Aboriginal Carbon Foundation Zeotech Lava Blue Limited Queensland Decarbonisation Hub Atlas Soils Queensland Farmers' Federation NQ Dry Tropics Gulf Savannah Development

We intrinsically need nature to survive and thrive but it’s also a key economic driver directly supporting over 50% of GDP. If nature was a dam, road or other piece of infrastructure appropriate investment would be provided annually in repairs and maintenance. With some very quick back of envelope calculations, in our part of the country, we should be investing at least $1Billion per year in the Great Barrier Reef and $100 million per year in the Wet Tropics Rainforest. The environment is a critically important asset and we need to start investing appropriately and not taking it for granted. In Queensland I’d love to see all sides of politics start taking steps in this direction by committing to funding the NRMRQ Nurturing Nature Cultivating Culture Election Package prior to October’s election. What are the tangible initiatives you think are needed to enable us to start thinking and acting differently about this challenge? Terrain NRM NRM Regions Queensland NRM Regions Australia

Join us at this breakfast event in Cairns on Friday morning. Our Biodiversity and Climate Leader Sarah Hoyal is a panellist, along with Lucy Graham from Cairns and Far North Environment Centre (CAFNEC) and chrissy warren from Bama Connect, with special guests Rachel Lowry from Bush Heritage Australia, Katharine Tapley from ANZ Banking Group and MC, journalist Kim Skubris. It's all about collaboration for a nature positive future. 🌿 Friday 26 July 2024 🌿 7.30AM - 10.30AM 🌿 Hilton Cairns Get your tickets and find out more here: https://lnkd.in/gdrN7-QY #naturepositive #biodiversity #climatechange #cairns