4619.0.55.001 - Land Management Practices in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments, Final, 2008-09

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Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction, abbreviations and symbols used 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 Land use maps Data maps About this Release History of Changes Size makes a difference for farmers in Great Barrier Reef catchment (Media Release)	LAND IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF CATCHMENTS The 28 catchments draining into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon cover a total land area of over 38 million hectares across 5 Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions. The land area covered stretches from the Wet Tropics 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 following sections summarise key findings from the survey. Wet Tropics NRM region Burdekin NRM region Mackay Whitsunday NRM region Fitzroy NRM region Burnett Mary NRM region Maps Land use maps Data maps Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.