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Burnett
The Burnett River Catchment starts in the Bunya Mountains south west of Kingaroy in Central Queensland, Australia and runs some 400 kilometres to discharge into the sea at Burnett Heads. The Burnett River, together with the associated systems of the Elliott, Gregory and Kolan Rivers, covers a land area of 33, 150 square kilometres. The Catchment includes 15 Local Governments including the Shires of Monto, Perry, Eidsvold, Mundubbera, Gayndah, Biggenden, Wondai, Murgon, Cherbourg, Kingaroy, Nanango, Kilkivan, Kolan, Isis, Burnett and the City of Bundaberg.
Catchment
The Burnett Catchment consists of a complex variety of landforms, geology and soil types. Agriculture is the principal land use of the Catchment with the most important industries being beef and dairy cattle, sugar cane, field crops, horticultural crops and intensive livestock. Some 2,877,243 ha or 74% of the total Catchment area is involved in actual agriculture. Within the agriculture sector the predominant land use is grazing which accounts for over 80% of the Catchment area.
Care
Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) is a philosophy that encourages a coordinated approach to the management of natural resources in Queensland. Its overall purpose is to integrate the management of land, water and related biological resources in order to achieve their sustainable and balanced use.
ICM involves the voluntary actions of stakeholders including government, rural landholders, industry, fisheries and urban dwellers that incorporate the goals of achieving and maintaining a healthy catchment for future generations.
Association
The Burnett Catchment Care Association (BCCA) was initiated in 1994 when a number of concerned citizens formed an Interim Steering Committee to facilitate the formation of a catchment care group. This steering committee was aware of the need to address natural resource management issues on a catchment approach instead of a Shire or locality basis.
By October 1995 this interim steering committee had become the Burnett Catchment Care Association. Today the organisation continues to grow and respond to changes in Natural Resource Management and to stakeholder needs.
