• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
Logo for Reef Catchments.
Get involved
Contact us
  • About
    • Annual reports
    • CEO’s message
    • Board members
    • Our team
    • Careers
    • Partners
    • Queensland NRM Network
    • Strategic plan
    • Become a member
    • Update your contact details
  • Community
  • Events
  • News
    • Newsletters
    • Media releases
    • Citizen Science Calendar
  • NRM Plan
    • NRM Plan 2014-2024
    • NRM region map
    • NRM Plan supporting documents
  • Projects
    • Sustainable Agriculture
    • Waterways
    • Conservation and Communities
    • Current Projects
    • Completed Projects
  • TORG
  • Resources
    • Species, ecosystems & pests
  • Get involved
  • Contact us
  • About
    • Annual reports
    • CEO’s message
    • Board members
    • Our team
    • Careers
    • Partners
    • Queensland NRM Network
    • Strategic plan
    • Become a member
    • Update your contact details
  • Community
  • Events
  • News
    • Newsletters
    • Media releases
    • Citizen Science Calendar
  • NRM Plan
    • NRM Plan 2014-2024
    • NRM region map
    • NRM Plan supporting documents
  • Projects
    • Sustainable Agriculture
    • Waterways
    • Conservation and Communities
    • Current Projects
    • Completed Projects
  • TORG
  • Resources
    • Species, ecosystems & pests
  • Get involved
  • Contact us
Hide Search

Archives for January 2014

Beach Plans essential to a year of caring for the coast

Jaime · Jan 30, 2014 · Leave a Comment

It takes a lot of time and effort to care for the coast, as well as the dedication of many working together to make a real and positive different to the natural environment.

The Coasts and Communities Program is a truly collaborative initiative, involving 15 organisations working with the community to undertake strategic management of the coast.

Managing the coast takes planning, and this is where Beach Plans come into play.

In 2013 Beach Plans were developed and approved for two coastal management areas: Blacks Beach Spit, and Town and Far Beach.

Beach Plans identify the natural and recreational values of a beach as well as the processes and threats acting upon it. The plans prioritise activities to be undertaken to enhance the natural environment for all beach users – be they people or coastal animals.

Beach Plans form the basis of all works undertaken along the Mackay coast, and ensure that all involved are working together towards the same goals. Using Beach Plans to guide them, the 15 organisations and hundreds of community volunteers accomplished great things along the Mackay coast in 2013.

Over the year, 168 hectares of coastal environments were cleared of invasive weeds, which will promote native rehabilitation. This was complemented by the planting of 5,312 native seedlings to help replace removed weeds, which will act to stabilise the dunes and provide future habitat for native fauna. The installation of 770 metres of fencing around areas of Nationally threatened coastal vegetation will help to protect the dunes from future degradation.

Through coordination by a number of groups, volunteers removed over 12 tonnes of litter from the coastal environment – litter that would otherwise have ended up in the ocean as a hazard to marine animals like endangered sea turtles. The number of hours spent working to help the coast by volunteers and staff is the true measure of how much we all care for our coast.

We thank everyone who was involved in the program in 2013, and hope to do it all again in 2014.

Coasts and Communities is a joint initiative of Mackay Regional Council and Reef Catchments, through funding from the Australian Government and with support from Mackay Regional Council’s Natural Environment Levy.  

Stay up to date. Subscribe now.

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Logo National Landcare.
The Australian Government supports the distribution of valuable reef-related information among the community and has funded the re-design of this website through its National Landcare Program.

© 2022 Reef Catchments · All rights reserved · Site by the dma

  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Contact
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Contact
Reef Catchments would like to acknowledge the First People, past and present, on whose Land, Sea and Waters we work. We acknowledge their enduring spiritual and cultural connection and their responsibility as First People to maintain and care for Country.
While every effort is made to maintain a culturally safe resource, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this website may contain images, voices and names of people who have passed away.