Condolences to the Darlington family on the passing of Jan. She was a driving force behind the early years of the Burnett Catchment Care Association, and attended BCCA’s 20 year celebration of natural resource management in the Burnett catchment in 2015. Jan was...
Widebay Burnett Regional Organisation of Councils (WBBROC), Invasive Species Advisory Committee is currently conducting an economic survey to approximate the economic cost that feral pigs are having to our horticultural and cropping industries. In addition to...
Inland Burnett: SMART Audit and Strategic Gap Analysis project is funded by the Australian Government through Building Better Regions Fund. The founding concept behind this project is based on the fact that agriculture is fast becoming more knowledge intensive....
John Day (Soil Conservation Adviser – Emu Ridge Pty Ltd) is spending the week in Monto providing erosion control and remediation design advice as part of BCCA’s Natural Disaster Resilience Project. Much of the damage sustained at the sites we’ve...
Hi, my name is Sarah and I have recently come on-board with BCCA as the Community Resilience Officer, taking over the facilitation of the North Burnett Natural Disaster Resilience Program (NDRP). I come from a rural background; our family owned a piggery on the...
Improving Resilience & Risk-Based Decision Making workshops organised by BCCA were held in Gaeta and Coalstoun Lakes in August. Presenter Cam Nicholson from Nicon Rural Consulting, aimed to explore the decision’s landholders make on a daily basis and the...
The latest Burnett Buzz is out, highlights include: Upcoming RCS Clinic— Biggenden 9 – 11 October Inland Burnett SMARTHub survey! Managing Risk in Agriculture – review of August workshops Drought Declaration – assistance available To download...
Due to significate ‘lack of rain and rapidly depleting pasture reserves’, the North Burnett local Council area has been drought declared, back dated to 1 September 2019. The North Burnett local government area now joins the South Burnett (declared March 2017) and the...
On Thursday evening, 29 August 2019, a crowd gathered to see the official launch of the Monto Agricultural Strategy. The Monto Agricultural Strategy was funded by the Australian Government through the Building Better Regions Fund. BBRF as it is known is an...
Three invasive water weeds (hygrophila, saggittaria and alligator weed), which are currently not found in the Burnett, are being targeted in an awareness campaign to make sure the Burnett stays clear of these high-priority water weeds. If you think you have seen these...
BMRG’s funding program is targeting local community groups for implementation of organisational capacity building activities. The total available funding under this round is $50,000 with a maximum of $2,500 available for each eligible organisation; small...
Central Burnett Landcare are excited to announce that funding is now available for projects focused on building soil and water health in the Great Barrier Reef catchments, thanks to Burnett Mary Regional Group! The opportunity is now open for landholders to apply for...
