Since 2008 Whitsunday Catchments Landcare (WCL) has been undertaking revegetation projects along the banks of the two creeks that align Galbraith Park in Cannonvale. WCL’s objectives for this [...]
Whitsunday Regional Council’s Feral Pig Program is continuing to significantly reduce the issue of widespread damage caused by feral pigs in the Whitsunday Council area. The large scale program [...]
Through the Australian Government’s Reef Programme, Whitsunday Regional Council, in partnership with Reef Catchments, has installed three gross pollutant traps within the Cannonvale Botanic [...]
Canegrowers Mackay has been involved with Reef Rescue one and two, both on the Regional Working Group, and with implementation. The Mackay region had some impressive results: 1. There were 516 [...]
The Mackay South Water Recycling Facility was built in 2008 to treat sewage from approximately 68,000 people in the Mackay Region. The recycling scheme allows for most of the effluent water [...]
Stormwater education (both community and industry) has been highlighted as one of the five priority implementation projects under Councils voluntary mechanism for stormwater quality management. [...]
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s (GBRMPA) Reef Guardian Program joins this project by assisting Mackay Regional Council (MRC), a Reef Guardian Council, to coordinate community [...]
Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Pty Ltd (DBCT P/L) and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal Management (DBCTM) are undertaking a Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) to reduce the likelihood of [...]
Coastal marine monitoring in the Mackay Whitsundays region has increased. North Queensland Bulk Ports (NQBP) has implemented a marine program that covers over 100 km of our regions coastline [...]
North Queensland Bulk Ports have been undertaking Seagrass Monitoring in some of their Ports for over 20 years. Researchers at James Cook Universities’ TropWater have been measuring the [...]