by Steve Titman | Feb 20, 2025 | News, Ready to tackle the crisis
The construction of six fishways has removed barriers to migrating juvenile fish, opening up 100km of creek and river systems between Tully and Townsville. Fishways are a relatively new innovation in the region and consist of a series of underwater stairs for fish,...
by Steve Titman | Feb 19, 2025 | News, Ready to tackle the crisis
The Virtually Fencing Free project, funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund, aims to drive large-scale adoption of drought-resilient grazing strategies across all remote Northern Australian cattle properties. The five-year pilot project is...
by Steve Titman | Feb 19, 2025 | News, Ready to tackle the crisis
Queensland is a global biodiversity hotspot—home to more than half of Australia’s native species. Some of these species are found nowhere else in the world. Yet, some of these precious plants and animals are at risk of extinction, with natural events such as...
by Steve Titman | Feb 19, 2025 | News, Ready to tackle the crisis
Feral cats pose a significant threat to the survival of endangered native bird species. In the Southern Gulf region, this includes the night parrot, Carpentarian grasswren, and Gouldian finch. Cats are skilled predators and will prey on ground-dwelling birds,...
by Steve Titman | Feb 19, 2025 | News, Ready to tackle the crisis
Significant numbers of native fish are lost from Murray-Darling Basin rivers every year after being sucked into irrigation pumps and diverted into on-farm storage and channels. This impacts the sustainability of ongoing native fish populations and can cause damage...
