Queensland’s regional NRM organisations have launched a campaign to address some of the biggest threats to the state’s environment and economy.

The $196.4 million Nurturing Nature: Cultivating Culture plan will see regional communities engaged in four years of action that will halt the decline of threatened species, support First Nations stewardship, and improve land condition for agriculture, biodiversity and the economy.

Julie Boyd, Chair NRM Regions Queensland said that to truly protect our most precious places while we continue to produce food and fibre calls for collaboration as well as investment.

“Queensland is a place of extremes – our landscapes and our special plants and animals are as diverse as the natural processes that impact them. They’re also vulnerable to these extremes and our changing climate will only exacerbate the pressures on our natural environment”.

“We continue to feed a growing Queensland population whilst we expect our farming communities to meet new local and global standards.”

“To meet these challenges we must work together, we must think strategically and we must invest appropriately” Julie said.

Queensland’s 12 regional NRM organisations have engaged with their communities to develop plans which address the state’s biggest threats. And as a result the sector has developed a comprehensive statewide package of works to take action on the ground, at the regional level.”

“We already have a 320+ strong workforce,” Julie said, “but through this new package, we’ll create an additional 619 jobs – most of them in rural and remote locations – and 63 of them are Indigenous-specified positions.”

We’ll directly work to address threats to 43 threatened species and engage 86 First Nations groups and hundreds of other partners in the process.

Nurturing Nature: Cultivating Culture will see outcomes delivered for biodiversity, First Nations stewardship, aquatic environments, biosecurity, land condition, and climate adaptation and disaster resilience.

Find out more about our plan for improving Queensland’s natural resources here