Under the Eastern Cape York Water Quality Improvement Plan one of the intended outcomes was to produce a set of guidelines that addresses Aquatic Ecosystem Protection for both the fresh and estuarine surface water bodies of the region. This Appendix (Appendix 9) addresses the need for those guidelines.
This risk assessment was developed to help gain scientifically accurate information regarding the land-based pollutants which pose the biggest threat to coral reefs and sea grass beds in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR).
This appendix provides a practical and economic assessment of various natural resource management methods developed to improve grazing practices on the Cape.
The importance of the natural environment can be expresssed in terms of its values: ecologoical, socio-cultural, and economic. Assigning monetary value to goods and services provided by ecosystems can be a great way ensure that the environment is carefully considered during regional planning processes.
The 20th edition of the Healthy Country Newsletter is a special edition looking at the people of the 2014 Indigenous Fire Workshop, including information taken from interviews with the people themselves over the fire workshop
This issue of the Heathy Country Newsletter looks at both fire and rain with articles about fire management and burning practices as well as on weather mapping, the altering weather's effect in native animals and marine turtle conservation.
It's been another incredibly busy year for Cape York NRM and our partners. We hope you enjoy this newsletter which conveys some of our joint efforts.
Issue 28 of Healthy Country Newsletter focuses on the lessons learnt and the knowledge shared by Cape York's Land and Sea Managers.
Issue 27 of Healthy Country Newsletter explores some of the big issues impacting our water resources on the Cape, like gully erosion, salt water incursion and changing seasonal impacts. It also looks at some of the work underway from land managers to look after the land and care for our water.
This issue of the Healthy Country Newsletter talks predominately about turtle conservation and water quality improvement.