News and Coming Events

News and Events

Up-Coming Events

  • BBIFMAC General Meeting - 20th April 9.30am at the PCYC Complex, Ayr
  • Annual General Meeting, 2012 - Election of 2012-13 Managment Committee

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GW Pixel Project

Recent Projects

GW Pixel Project

BBIFMAC has recently received funding to support grower monitoring of groundwater used for irrigation in the Lower Burdekin. Similar to the very successful “WQ Pixel Project”, the new “GW Pixel Project” will support the growers who choose to participate in the project with basic training, sample collection and free laboratory analysis of groundwater samples.

Salvinia Weevil Breeding Program in Burdekin Schools

Funded by NQ Dry Tropics this project is designed to engage and support selected Burdekin Schools to breed Salvinia weevils to release into local lagoons and waterways for biological control of Salvinis as part of the "Protecting the RAMSAR wetlands of Bowling Green Bay" project

Evaluating Alternative Irrigation

This project aims to quantify and qualify the effects of Overhead Low Pressure (OHLP) irrigation systems. The Evaluating Alternative Irrigation trial is monitoring the impact of OHLP on Green cane trash blanketing (GCTB) , Legume fallow, Nutrient Management and Irrigation Scheduling.

Caring for our Turtles

This project was to raise awareness of Turtles that inhabit the Bowen area at to provide education pamphlets, marine friendly lighting and signage for the Bowen area.

Agrichar

BBIFMAC, Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM, CANEGROWERS Burdekin, NQACC, Burdekin Shire Council, CSR Sugar and NSW DPI have partnered in a project to test the feasibility of a Burdekin pyrolysis industry.

Burdekin Bowen Integrated Floodplain 
Management Advisory Committee Inc.

BBIFMAC’s overall vision and aim is to assist in the management of the natural resources in such a way as to ensure social wellbeing, primary production and ecological sustainability of the Burdekin-Bowen floodplain.

Being a non government, community owned NRM agency provides the unique opportunity for BBIFMAC to engage industry and community in a neutral and unbiased manner.

The area covered by the committee is the floodplains in the Whitsunday and Burdekin Shires, embracing the lower catchments of the Bogie, Don, Elliot, Burdekin and Haughton Rivers