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The Queensland Murray Darling Committee (QMDC) have successfully held tenders for conservation and soil management objectives. In there most recent program ‘Bush Tender 2007’ QMDC will allocate Australian Government funding to land owners and leaseholders under the Australian Government’s Maintaining Australia’s Biodiversity Hotspot Programme.
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The Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA) Biodiversity Incentive Scheme offers stewardship payments to landholders for conservation practices.
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The scheme targeted remnant vegetation, riparian management and pasture land management (including weed control).
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The Sustainable Landscape Program offers cash incentives for land managers to implement a range of activities that aim to improve the condition of the natural resources in the Mackay Whitsunday Region.
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Southwest NRM held a stewardship tender where landholders were invited to submit bids for the amount of fees they wish to be paid to remove stock from parts of or all of their properties, to allow the grasses to set seed and replenish the pasture.
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The Desert Uplands Committee, with funding provided by Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM, successfully ran a stewardship tender to protect remnant vegetation and areas of biodiversity significance by creating the foundation for Landscape Linkage across the Desert Uplands bioregion. The Landscape Linkage stewardship tender is the first trial of an environmental stewardship program in Central West Queensland. A multiple-round tender process was used - with very competitive bidding taking place amongst several landholders.
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Terrain Natural Resource Management, in Queensland’s Wet Tropics has entered into a joint venture with environmental services business BIOCARBON for carbon trading. The partnership is called Degrees Celsius and will see terrain NRM broker far north Queensland biocarbon - cost effective emission reductions that also sustain ecosystems and livelihoods - through one of Australia's first regional biocarbon pooling initiatives.
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The Burnett Mary Regional Group in partnership with Queensland DairyFarmers Organisation has used an MBI for water quality to improve effluent and riparian management.
Although riparian and effluent management improvements required quite different management actions, both bids were assessed and compared on the same criteria to generate reductions in nitrogen and phosphorus entering the waterway as a proportion of the total load for the Mary river catchment. A cost share element was recorded.
A second trial in partnership with Growcom and horticultural growers is under development
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