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QMDC has a range of projects t
hat deliver technical advice and financial support to communities across our region.
If you can't find something that interests you, don't forget to check out the program sections of our website.
Border Rivers Demonstration Reach
Demonstration reaches are large scale river reaches, or wetlands, where a number of management interventions are applied to showcase the cumulative benefits of river rehabilitation on native fish populations. Read more
Bush Tender 2007
Bush Tender 2007 was funded by the Australian Government's ‘Managing Australia's Biodiversity Hotspots' programme, and aimed to engage landholders in actions to protect intact ecosystems, especially… Read more
Community Water Monitoring
Monitoring water quality provides valuable information about the state of our natural resources and how they are changing over time. QMDC’s Water Quality Officers are working with landholders… Read more
Grain and Graze
Grain and Graze is a national research, development and extension program aimed at achieving profit through knowledge. The project is working to integrate the knowledge and experience of farmers, researchers… Read more
Land for Wildlife
With over 90% of bushland managed for purposes other than wildlife conservation, private landholders play an important role in preserving Australia's unique wildlife. Retaining… Read more
Nature Conservation
The Queensland Murray-Darling Basin is home to a wide diversity of plants and animals including over 3,300 plant species, 97 mammals, 340 birds, 156 reptiles, 50 frogs, 18 fish and 120 butterflies. The… Read more
Parthenium Rapid Response
This program is supporting a rapid response capability across the Queensland Murray-Darling Basin to eradicate new parthenium outbreaks that occur outside core infestation areas (see map, right). The… Read more
Reptile Recovery - the scaly facts
Australia has a rich and unique reptile fauna with over 90% of them found nowhere else in the world. Sadly, the majority of Australia's reptiles are declining in numbers, with one in four of Australia's… Read more
War on ferals
Feral pigs, as well as feral cats and foxes, have become high priority pests because of the damage they cause to agricultural production and the environment. In fact, local governments in the Queensland… Read more
Water Use Efficiency
QMDC is currently funding a range of water use efficiency projects to help improve rural and urban water management. Rural Water Use Efficiency This program offers assistance to irrigators to conduct… Read more
Weeds & Pest Animal Management
QMDC is working on a number of projects that aim to manage weeds and pest animals, and reduce their spread and impact on the environment. Where possible, these projects build… Read more
Wash Down Facilities
Preventing Weed Seed Spread Ask us how we can help. QMDC is providing an incentive to install wash down facilities in the Maranoa-Balonne, Border Rivers and Condamine catchments. Preventing the spread… Read more



