This section
of the website is to be maintained by the Sarina Landcare Catchment
Management Association Inc.:
Our
Partnerships:
We foster
relationship-building, co-operation, co-ordination and
information-sharing between community groups and Local and State
Government by encouraging a diversity of membership in our group,
and encouraging community feedback and partnership in the
development our natural resource management projects. We continue
developing partnership projects with:
- Sarina Shire Council,
- Broadsound Shire Council,
- CSR Distilleries,
- CSR Plane Creek Mill,
- Hay Point Services,
- Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal,
- Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service,
- and community groups and landholders in our catchment
area.
We
offer regular community participation activities &
skill-development programs:
We manage the
SLCMA Community Nursery and the SLCMA Community Volunteer Program.
These programs implement biodiversity conservation and
rehabilitation actions in our catchment.
We encourage
community involvement in environmental
monitoring through the Sarina Healthy Waterways
Program.
We disseminate
information on natural resource issues throughout the Sarina
Catchment
we support their Involved in the development of the Mackay
Whitsunday Natural Resource Management Plan, by encouraging them to
identify and report on local catchment environmental
issues.
We regularly
undertake Envirofund projects within our catchment and more
than 8 Sarina Green
Corps projects have been undertaken since
1997.
We are soon
to undertake further community consultation to deliver
on-ground works through the Sustainable Landscapes Program
as activities of the Sarina Landcare Catchment Management
Strategy.
SLCMA
membership
·
Sarina Shire
Council
·
Recreational
Fishing
·
Mackay
Whitsunday Natural Resource Management Group
·
Five
representatives from five different community groups
·
Bureau of
Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES)
·
Plane Creek
Cane Protection & Productivity Board
·
Landholders
from the Cane growing sector
·
Landholders
from the Grazing Sector
·
CSR
Distilleries
·
'Small
holding' land managers
·
Queensland
Parks
& Wildlife
Service
·
Department of
Main Roads
·
Ports
Corporation
·
Australian
Forest
Growers
·
Mackay &
District Turtle Watch
Our Community
representatives are elected by the members of the organization as
executive members (Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Secretary and
Treasurer) for a one year term.
Our key issues:
Water quality,
biodiversity conservation, coastal management and land use
management, weeds.
Coordinator
: Saskia von
Fahland, email: slcmasaskia@mcs.net.au
Address:
PO Box 682, Sarina, QLD, 4737
Phone: (07) 4956 1388
Fax: (07) 4956 2944
