Check Clean Disinfect Dry brochure released

NRM South has just produced some new brochures and posters to get our key biosecurity message out there: “Check, Clean, Disinfect, Dry, Done!” Biosecurity is all about preventing the introduction and spread of diseases such as frog chytrid fungus, Phytophthora dieback, didymo and platypus mucor disease into areas of Tasmania’s pristine wilderness.

• Check Clean Disinfect Dry brochure

It's your backyard too!

In April we launched our "It's your backyard too" campaign. The campaign provides an insight into the work that NRM South and our partners carry out and aims to encourage community involvement in natural resource management projects. The campaign focuses on our recent success stories.

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Local government forum

NRM South’s Local Government Forums are supporting local government by delivering expert presentations and providing opportunities for knowledge sharing and networking. This forum series is being presented by NRM South as part of our role in facilitating the implementation of the Natural Resource Management Strategy for Southern Tasmania. The inaugural workshop on 26 March addressed coastal management and climate change.

Guest presentations can be found on our Presentations page.

Southern Tasmanian Weeds Strategy 2011-16

The Southern Tasmanian Weeds Strategy consolidates weed management activities in the region, identifies emerging issues and sets clear achievable outcomes.  It provides a framework for improving weed management decision making and on-ground outcomes across the region and for developing effective partnerships to ensure a coordinated approach.

Download it here.

Derwent Catchment Review released

The Derwent Catchment Review project was initiated by organisations with a significant interest in the management of water quality and quantity in the greater Derwent catchment: NRM South, Derwent Estuary Program, Southern Water, Hydro Tasmania, DPIPWE and Derwent Catchment NRM. The main purpose of the review was to build upon earlier reviews of water quality issues in parts of the Derwent catchment undertaken by individual stakeholders (Coughanowr, 2001; Hydro Tasmania, 2001; Andrew, 2002; Hobart Water, 2006), and to integrate this information with more contemporary datasets across the entire catchment.

Download it here.

Update on Carbon

The Australian Government’s Carbon Farming Initiative will provide new opportunities for farmers and land managers, while also helping the environment by reducing carbon pollution. The CFI will create incentives to reduce emissions from agriculture and increase carbon storage in soils and vegetation.

By engaging in activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions we may have an opportunity to earn ‘carbon credits’. There are two types of activity:

• storing more carbon, for example by growing trees or reducing tillage on a farm in a way that increases soil carbon
• reducing or avoiding emissions, for example through capturing and destroying methane emissions from landfill or livestock manure.

Farmers will not have to pay for greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural activities, and the fuel they use for farm equipment and personal vehicles will be exempt under the carbon price.

NRM South is working with a range of organisations to identify opportunities to obtain multiple benefits from carbon-related investment, and is an information link for landholders interested in taking up opportunities.

If you have any questions about the new carbon economy contact our Regional Landcare Facilitator, Barry Hardwick.
Phone (03) 6221 6117, bhardwick@nrmsouth.org.au

More information on the Australian Government’s Clean Energy Future program can be found at
www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au/carbon-farming-initiative/

Guide to Planned Grazing released

NRM South in conjucntion with Graeme Hand recently published the Guide to planned grazing, a manual describing how to conduct a small-scale trial plus advice on how to scale-up to managing a whole property.

• Guide to Planned Grazing

There's a lot happening in our backyard

In the lead up to World Environment Day on Sunday June 5, Tasmania’s three NRM organisations recognised the community’s efforts in caring for our valuable natural resources.

• Media Release - World Environment Day June 5th
• There's a lot happening in our backyard

NRM Volunteer Community Needs Analysis

NRM South has undertaken a desk top Needs Analysis to help inform the direction of support activities for volunteers working in Natural Resource Management.  The analysis will be updated in 2011/12 following the completion of specially commissioned research by NRM South.  

• NRM Volunteer Community Needs Analysis

NRM Strategy for Southern Tasmania 2010-215

The Natural Resource Management Strategy for Southern Tasmania 2010–2015 has been developed to provide a strategic, integrated framework for natural resource management in the Southern Region of Tasmania. It has been developed by NRM South in accordance with the Tasmanian Natural Resource Management Act 2002. Click here to view a copy of the strategy or here to view the media release.