Achieving impact
Natural Resources Recovery Program NRRP
Building resilient grazing landscapes and native vegetation communities in SEQ.
Enhancing community capacity for ongoing management actions that improve land conditions and contribute to well-functioning landscapes.
The project is delivering capacity-building activities and support for landholders with targeted incentives for the implementation of on-ground works that improve the condition of natural assets and build landscape resilience. Funded by the Queensland Government’s Natural Resources Recovery Program, Healthy Land & Water’s NRRP - Regional Recovery project started in 2021 and is now in its second iteration.
After three years of amazing work, new funds mean we can expand and extend our efforts for four more years!
It is designed to address key threats to land and vegetation condition, including declining pasture condition and soil health, hillslope erosion, invasive exotic weeds as well as inappropriate fire regimes and grazing management practices.
Through workshops, field days, property visits, and more over the upcoming years until 2028, this project will deliver on Natural Resources Recovery Program (NRRP) priorities by enhancing community capacity for ongoing management actions that improve land condition and native vegetation and by contributing to well-functioning resilient landscapes.
What we are doing
The next phase enables us to continue our work to help improve the knowledge, skills, and capacity of an additional 300 landholders.
Healthy Land & Water’s main focus is on improving landscape condition and resilience through increased sustainable practices. This project:
- Addresses some of the key threats to land condition and native vegetation identified in the SEQ Natural Resource Management Plan, including declining pasture condition, soil health, hillslope erosion, invasive exotic weeds, and inappropriate fire regimes and grazing management practices.
- Supports landholders to adopt sustainable management practices and drive regional economies that improve natural asset conditions – soils, pastures, native vegetation and biodiversity.
- Improve landscape resilience and ability to respond to natural disasters and climate change.
- Delivers workshops, field days, and property visits to build landholder and community capacity for improved natural resource management.
- Implements on-ground works to improve land and native vegetation.
Measuring success
As a result of the program, many activities to achieve sustainable agricultural and biodiversity outcomes are being delivered:
| Actions |
Project 1 (2021-2023) $1,217.000 |
Project 2 (2024-2028) $2,205,605 |
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| Promote and accelerate the adoption of best management practices |
Delivery of capacity-building activities: training, workshops, field days |
320 landholders 14 capacity building activities. |
300 landholders 16 capacity building activities planned |
| Address threats to soil health, land condition, and native vegetation |
Increase landholders’ capacity to develop site-specific property plans to address threats |
98% of participants indicated activities assisted with managing land and native vegetation | Yes |
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Increase landholders’ capacity to implement and maintain these on-ground works and practices over time |
82% of landholders with improved skills and knowledge | Yes | |
| Improvement of the health and stability of soil and land condition in main grazing areas, including the upper Brisbane and Logan catchments |
By improving the adoption and maintenance of recommended land management practices |
Directly supported improved land management practices over 2,020ha
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Improved land condition over 4,000ha |
| Vegetation condition and landscape resilience |
Improved in state-identified endangered regional ecosystems |
Yes | Yes |
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Implementing on-ground works to improve land and native vegetation |
Directly supported threat mitigation works over 610ha | Improved condition of 420ha native vegetation | |
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Enhancement of natural regeneration, improved diversity, habitat values, and connectivity |
Landholders reported improved threat management over a further 5,838ha of native vegetation | Yes | |
| Community |
Enhanced community partnerships |
Landholders, community groups – Lockyer Uplands Catchment Inc., Noosa and District Landcare, Little Liverpool Range Initiative, and Councils-Lockyer Valley, Ipswich, and Qld Department of Agriculture and Fisheries | Yes |
Why this project is important
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Approximately 55% of South East Queensland is used for grazing of modified & natural forest areas, managed as several thousand small to medium-sized rural holdings with high rates of changing land ownership. These circumstances generate a strong need and desire for ongoing targeted capacity-building programs to support landholders managing natural resources in the region. Since 2021and over the next 4 years, this project will deliver on NRRP priorities by enhancing community capacity for ongoing management actions that improve land condition and by contributing to well-functioning resilient landscapes. |
Project snapshot
| Project name: | NRRP Round 3 Project (2024 - 2028) $2,205,605 NRRP Round 2 Project (2021 – 2023) $1,217,000 |
| Project manager: | Renee Ould, Healthy Land & Water |
| Project team: | Bruce Lord, Vanessa Smolders and Lene Knudsen |
| Catchment: | South East Queensland |
| Partnerships: | This project is funded by the Queensland Government Department of Resources’ Natural Resources Recovery Program-Regional Recovery (NRRP). |
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What's next
There is huge potential to build on the successful work.
Project collaborators
This project is funded by the Queensland Government Department of Resources’ Natural Resources Recovery Program-Regional Recovery (NRRP).
