4619.0 - Land Management Practices in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments, Preliminary, 2008-09

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 22/12/2009 First Issue

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Contents Preface and acknowledgements Introduction Land in the Great Barrier Reef catchments Wet Tropics NRM region Burdekin NRM region Mackay Whitsunday NRM region Fitzroy NRM region Burnett Mary NRM region Maps About this Release ABS survey examines protection of the Great Barrier Reef (Media Release)	LAND IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF CATCHMENTS The survey covered 28 of the 30 catchments draining into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon. These 28 catchments cover a total land area of over 38 million hectares across 5 Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions. The land area covered stretches from the Daintree World Heritage area in the north to the Sunshine Coast in the south. Of this area, approximately 28.5 million hectares has been included in this survey. That is land used mainly for agricultural production by holdings with a predominant activity of sugar cane, horticulture, broadacre cropping or beef cattle grazing. The NRM regions in the survey Wet Tropics NRM region Burdekin NRM region Mackay Whitsunday NRM region Fitzroy NRM region Burnett Mary NRM region Maps of Land Management Practices Maps Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.