Training rural landholders to build bushfire resilience and preserve koalas.
Training rural landholders to build bushfire resilience and preserve koalas.This project aims to deliver training to landholders who live in identified rural and rural residential communities that are at risk of bushfire hazards.
Healthy Land & Water’s Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium (QFBC) is delivering the Community Bushfire Planning Workshops together with the Fitzroy Basin Association.
The purpose of this training is to increase community bushfire resilience, management, awareness, and capacity with a particular focus on koala conservation.
The project includes Community Fire Information Nights and a day Property Fire Management Planning workshop.
The project focuses on:
Reducing future disaster risk.
This project delivered through Community Fire Information Nights and a one-day Property Fire Management Planning workshop, involved:
As a result of the program, the following has been achieved:
Bushfires are an inherent part of the Queensland landscape and in many areas, bushfire risk is increasing because of hotter, drier weather conditions. The devastating bushfires across much of Queensland during the Black Summer bushfires are an example of what we can expect in the future and demonstrate the potential for severe to catastrophic fire weather. These Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium workshops provide landholders with relevant information on prevention and preparedness and facilitate their understanding of the impacts of these measures on the “whole of landscape” bushfire mitigation. Moreover, the workshops assist landholders in their understanding of the role of fire in supporting biodiversity conservation - with a focus on koalas - and maintaining healthy ecosystems at a local, catchment, and landscape scale. |
Project name: | Community Bushfire Planning Workshop - Koala - Fitzroy Basin |
Project manager: | Jamie Kruusmaa, Healthy Land & Water |
Region: | Fitzroy Basin |
Timing: | 2022 (Completed) |
Partnerships: | This project is supported by Healthy Land & Water, Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium (QFBC) and the Fitzroy Basin Association. |
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There is huge potential to build on the successful work.
This project is supported by Healthy Land & Water, Queensland Fire and Biodiversity Consortium (QFBC), and the Fitzroy Basin Association.