Informal access to beaches, dunes, and coastal wetlands and waterways by vehicles and pedestrians can lead to the destruction of native vegetation, reduce vegetative cover, and increase the potential for erosion or compaction and weed invasion. Traffic can also displace wildlife or destroy their habitats.
A total of 91,000 indigenous species were planted across the urban coastal landscape of the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region between 2013 and 2016.
The Mackay Whitsunday Isaac (MWI) urban system repair program began July 2013 as a means to identify, prioritise, and implement management actions to improve urban water quality and protect and enhance native vegetation and biodiversity across waterways, wetlands (constructed and natural), estuarine and coastal environment with the MWI.
The Greater Brisbane Urban Fish Barrier Prioritisation Process was created as part of a larger federally funded fish migration project: Re-connecting aquatic habitats across the greater Brisbane Urban Area.
Diadromous fish in Mackay and Whitsundays face serious transit challenges.
The Regional Agriculture Landcare Facilitator (RALF) programme is made up of a national network which involves facilitators in each of Australia’s 56 natural resource management regions. They work to support Landcare and production groups to adopt sustainable farm and land management practices, and to protect Australia’s landscape.
The Game Changer and Project Catalyst sugar innovation programs involve around 140 sugarcane farmers from Australia’s most productive sugar growing regions. The Game Changer program is a part of the Australian Government Reef Programme and facilitates on-farm demonstrations and trials of practices with the potential to cut pollutant loads to the Great Barrier Reef.
Reef Catchments is working with community and industry to promote sustainable forestry in the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region.
Australia’s Biodiversity Conservation Strategy identifies changing fire regimes as one of six key threats to Australia’s biodiversity.
The Paddock to Reef integrated monitoring, modelling and reporting programme is a collaboration involving governments, industry bodies, regional natural resource management groups, landholders, and research organisations.
Reef Catchments works with community and industry to promote sustainable horticulture practices in the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region.
The primary focus of the programme is to assist graziers in the implementation of grazing practices that benefit both the landscape and improves the long-term viability of the grazier’s farm as a more efficient agricultural operation.
One-on-one consultations help farmers develop management plans for nutrients and herbicides, specific to their property.
Reef Catchments is working to restore the degraded corridor behind the Twin Creek Court development in Cannonvale in partnership with Whitsunday Regional Council and Whitsunday Catchment Landcare.
The Janes Creek catchment landholders’ project is a two-year Queensland Government funded water quality improvement project which engages a whole-of-system approach to management practice adoption, system repair, and treatment solutions.
Reef Catchments is working to restore and increase the resilience of our region in response to the impact of natural disasters, in particular Severe Tropical Cyclone (STC) Debbie.
Eleven fishways and fish hotels were installed and/or improved between 2013 and 2016, over the course of the Urban Reef Rescue Project.
Litter, nutrients, and sediments entering the marine environment through the storm water system threaten the integrity and condition of existing native vegetation and habitats in the coastal urban landscape of the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region.
The WQIP is an important document that aims to ensure water quality is suitable for human uses and aquatic ecosystem protection. This plan builds upon the 2008 WQIP and describes management interventions for rehabilitation of priority habitats and reduction of pollutant loads from diffuse and point sources.
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