....a way of doing business which delivers solutions NOW

The Mackay Whitsunday Natural Resource Management Group's flagship business approach-Sustainable Landscapes, was developed by us as an incentive scheme. It provides a variety of cash, training and field extension support incentives to encourage the development of effective partnerships at all land management levels - agricultural industry, individual landholders, public land managers and business.
It delivers results across all program themes:

• Biodiversity, Coasts & Marine

• Land, Water & Waterways

• Healthy Waterways

• Climate, Community & Indigenous Culture

Cash incentives are offered across a diversity of land management practices. When accessed by land managers they can be used to deliver improvements in soil health, water use efficiency and water quality, input management (nutrient and chemical), and our region's public assets.

We present these incentives as investment packages to land managers so they will adopt the practices offered within them and deliver natural resource management solutions for Great Barrier Reef water quality, soil health, water-use efficiency and biodiversity.

A percentage investment between 10%-40% is provided to land manager applicants according to the results of property field assessments undertaken by Mackay Whitsunday Natural Resource Management field officers. Scheme participants receive training which enables improved practices to be applied according to property need.

Appropriate suites of practices are developed with agri-industry in consideration of the environmental context of climate change in which they will be implemented. Industry knowledge of best practice is extended to growers and innovations in practice are shared within the growing network of industry-wide sustainability stewards. Community, government and agri-business partners are targeted to deliver solutions in the management of -cane, grazing, horticulture, vegetation, stormwater, and public lands.

By presenting these natural resource management practices -our solutions -as investment packages supported by direct cash-funding, we enable their rapid adoption by land managers. In this way we help to reduce the financial risk inherent in the adoption of new practices. The solution delivers public benefit whilst giving direct returns on industry profitability.

Across the region, industry-focused, catchment-based projects enable solutions to be readily demonstrated - and therefore readily adopted by a variety of agri-industries.

In the O'Connell and Broken River Catchments, projects built from the Sustainable Landscapes scheme engage the grazing sector. Whole-of-community benefits are delivered through an industry-wide adoption of sustainable practices which deliver water quality and biodiversity solutions. In Baker's Creek, project work focuses on building sustainability in cane growing at a whole-of-catchment level.

The Sustainable Landscapes approach is adaptive to both the farm and regional level and is suitable for adoption Queensland-wide according to commodity and regional landscape variability.

By applying strategic approaches to solving communications, extension and engagement issues with our clients, stakeholders and partners we manage our relationships in a way which facilitates the delivery of effective natural resource management outcomes across all program themes whilst  promoting  the value of our work in the community.