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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

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