Archives: Priority Actions

Identify and implement actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for climate change mitigation in the Wet Tropics.

Build resilience to climate change through natural solutions like plantings, greening cities, restoring corridors and utilising traditional land management knowledge.

Conduct riparian restoration to improve the health of waterways.

Identify and prioritise key riparian and wildlife corridor sites for protection and restoration.

Increase protection of areas identified as having high biodiversity significance and conduct restoration to strengthen and expand these areas.

Protect habitat across all tenures and minimise threats to threatened species, including the Spectacled Flying Fox, Kuranda Tree Frog and Southern Cassowary.

Protect and restore the diversity of habitats in our region to support a range of species, including migratory birds and endemic or threatened species.

Reduce water quality impacts resulting from point sources of water pollution, such as from urban and mining runoff, to improve waterway health.

Establish a Traditional Owner ‘working on country’ project at Anniversary Falls/Herberton area.

Undertake research into appropriate fire management strategies, with extension of results to landholders.

Collaboratively develop a protocol for weed control and biosecurity in the Upper Herbert.

Support for ongoing development and extension of regionally-specific grazing BMP, which takes into account the unique land types, soils and pastures in the Upper Herbert.