Receive Financial Incentives and Support for Protecting Brigalow Belt Habitat on Your Property

Do You Have Remnant Brigalow Habitat on Your Property?

Landholders, does your property contain remnant Brigalow Belt habitat? Did you know that Brigalow habitat supports biodiversity that is valuable to maintaining the health and productivity of your agricultural systems? A loss of biodiversity can result in a reduction of ecosystem services like shade and shelter, healthy soil and water retention.

This project provides the opportunity to conserve these threatened Brigalow Belt habitats and contribute to the long-term sustainability and productivity of your agricultural systems. Protecting these threatened habitats will enable them to continue to provide the shade, shelter, and soil health that your livestock rely on, while creating mutual benefits for both your farm and the environment. You can also make a significant contribution to the quality of the nation’s environment by reconnecting the landscape along regional and national vegetation corridors. 

This project aims to improve the quality of remnant, fragmented Brigalow habitat in Southern Queensland. It prioritises corridors or fragments of Brigalow that contain likely habitat for nationally important species including the Koala, Yakka Skink, Collared Delma and Northern Quoll. The project will support work on both public and private land through land management activities including:

• Install fencing to improve grazing management, livestock watering and protect remnant Brigalow habitat
  
• Manage weed invasion that impacts threatened Brigalow habitat 
• Pest Management to increase Brigalow habitat health
• Implement appropriate fire regimes to mitigate vegetation edge effects and prevent uncontrolled fires

Collaboration with landholders, First Nations people, Government, and local communities will be crucial for successful implementation that achieves lasting positive impacts in threatened Brigalow Belt habitats.