Landscape Resilience in the important sugar production area of the Lower Burdekin Delta

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Burdekin Bowen Integrated Floodplain Management Advisory Committee Inc (BBIFMAC)

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On-ground work

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Burdekin Bowen Integrated Floodplain Management Advisory Committee Inc

NQ Dry Tropics

Queensland Regional NRM Investment Program 2013-16 - Improving landscape resilience in the important sugar production area of the Lower Burdekin Delta

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1 September 2013

30 June 2016

The project aims to restore seasonality for landscape resilience in the important sugar production area of the Lower Burdekin Delta. Improved health and ecological functioning of Great Barrier Reef wetland ecosystems will lead to a healthy and resilient Great Barrier Reef.

This project is one small ‘building block’ that will support larger objectives, all aimed at providing for sustainable agriculture whilst maintaining (and hopefully improving) the high environmental values of the region. With internationally important natural areas of the Great Barrier Reef and the Ramsar Wetlands of Bowling Green Bay on its doorstep, the natural values could not be any higher.

The Burdekin District is also the largest cane growing area in Australia, which demonstrates the high economic and social importance of the location. While changes to the landscape have occurred historically, the future of all environmental, social and economic values of the area will depend upon finding a healthy ecological balance.

Public benefits will potentially include:

• improved long-term business and livelihood security for residents in the Lower Burdekin
• a reduction in the risk of flooding
• a healthier functioning wetland system supporting the health and resilience of the Great Barrier Reef and the Ramsar Wetlands of Bowling Green Bay.

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