The ‘Burnett Catchment Strategy’ documented the outcomes from a 5-year collaborative process that drew together the diverse interests of stakeholders to back an agreed goal: ‘To coordinate and instigate community awareness and effort to maintain and improve an ecologically and economically sustainable Burnett Catchment River Basin’.

It involved a collaborative partnership between BCCA and other interests including State and Local governments, industry, community, specialised and business groups, and individual landholders within the Burnett Catchment.

The strategy provided a long-term framework to guide natural resource management decision making related to nine key issues of community concern regarding natural resource management and catchment management planning:

• communication
• education and awareness
• research
• land use and management
• biodiversity management and enhancement
• riparian zone management
• water access, quality and environmental flows
• water quality
• pest management

The Strategy recognises that the most successful plans are those which are embraced and implemented by the catchment community as a whole. This includes landholders, Landcare and catchment groups, rural industries, environmental groups, Indigenous Australians and the Commonwealth, State & Local Governments.

The release of this document was testament to the enduring commitment of all participants to maintain a voluntary cooperative climate to manage our natural resources.

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