Cape York Peninsula is a dream destination, the ultimate road-trip, for people who love four-wheel-driving, fishing and camping. Visitor numbers increase every year, and most take good care of the place. But a small minority are causing problems for other visitors, the region and its people.
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Fire management training opportunities for land managers on the Cape have increased
As late season fires continued to burn across Cape York, many land managers undertaking best practice savanna burning fire management implemented their early season burns prior to 1 August 2018.
However, sometimes these early burns were not enough to prevent large areas of the landscape from burning in the late dry season.
No one ever learned to walk by reading a book about it—the same message holds true for working with land managers on Cape York
Words Abbey Ernst and Robyn May | Photo Kerry Trapnell
Abbey Ernst started work as Cape York NRM’s Sustainable Industries Officer in December 2018. She will work on the Queensland Government’s Paddock to Reef project, and the Federal Government’s Healthy Farming Futures project.
‘The change starts with us’—that was the takeaway for Cape York NRM staff attending the Australasia-Pacific Extension Network (APEN) conference in Darwin last week
Words Juliana Foxlee | Photo Andrew Brooks
Cape York NRM and Northern Gulf Resource Management Group are working with graziers in the Mitchell catchment to help them develop their knowledge of native vegetation management in a bid to reduce erosion.
Cape York NRM Acting Principal Program Manager Michael Goddard is managing the project.
Words Abbey Ernst and Robyn May | Photo Robyn May
2019 marks a decade of successful operation for the Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring, Modelling and Reporting Program (Paddock to Reef program).
It is through the Paddock to Reef program that Cape York NRM has effectively continued its work with landholders in the Normanby catchment of the Great Barrier Reef.
In late 2015, Sharks And Rays Australia commenced a research project on the distribution and abundances of sawfish in Far North Queensland, the Cape York region and the Gulf of Carpentaria.
Normanby Station’s Vince and Cliff Harrigan recently visited 12 primary schools in Victoria to share information about culture, country and life in Far North Queensland. The ‘classroom connections’, organised by Aboriginal cultural tour company Culture Connect, occurred over two weeks in March across Melbourne schools, and gave Victorian kids a rare opportunity to learn about Aboriginal culture and the unique features and history of the Balnggarrawarra homelands on Cape York.
Words Robyn May | Photo Jessie Price-Decle
Cape York grazing families didn’t let a little thing like a Cat 1 cyclone deter them from heading to the 2019 Cape York Grazing Forum held in Laura recently
Cape York NRM ran the event in partnership with South Cape York Catchments, Rural Financial Counselling Services North Queensland, AgForce, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and was a great success.
Curly and Lily Lagoons look great twelve months after exclusion fencing was put in place
Words Robyn May | Photo Liam O'Neill
Harry James might have grown up in the city but he never missed an opportunity to go bush.
Harry is Cape York NRM’s first Agricultural Extension Graduate, and one of only six in Queensland.