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Landmark paper published on assessing the net benefits of achieving water quality targets in the southern Great Barrier Reef

Natural Decisions in partnership with Craig Beverly, Graeme Doole and Fred Bennett have published a landmark publication describing a method to estimate the feasibility and net profit (or net costs) of achieving set water quality targets (sediment, nitrogen, phosphorus and herbicide load reductions) in the Burnett-Mary region within the southern portion of the Great Barrier Reef. […]

Posted 26 September 2016 in News

What price to protect the Great Barrier Reef?

Natural Decisions were part of the large team who have put together the cost estimates of the amount of money it might take to achieve the targets set for trying to protect the Great Barrier Reef in terms of addressing the impacts from agriculture (sugarcane and grazing). We are pleased the Queensland Government commissioned this […]

Posted 12 August 2016 in News

Natural Decisions farewells Michelle Dickson

The team at Natural Decisions is sad to advise that Michelle Dickson will be leaving us to take up a position with Melbourne Water. Michelle’s passion and abilities in all aspects of waterway management and project management, as well as her contribution of ideas and hard work in all areas will be sorely missed. Michelle […]

Posted 6 July 2016 in News

Evaluating water quality incentives and partnerships in the Burnett Mary region

Recently Anna Roberts spent a week in the Burnett Mary region evaluating a three year Australian Government funded program to protect the Great Barrier Reef in terms of its impact, effectiveness, efficiency and appropriateness. The program is focused on improving partnerships with local industries (sugarcane, grazing, dairy and horticulture) and providing incentives for landholders to […]

Posted 25 May 2016 in News

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Making sense of woodland bird data

Over the past couple of years Natural Decisions has been working closely with Kilter Rural and Accounting for Nature (AfN) to develop an environmental accounting method for woodland birds. The method, originally accredited in November 2021, has since been trialled extensively on Kilter managed properties in northern Victoria, which has led to a number of […]

Natural Decisions, in collaboration with the Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation, have developed a Tullaroop Integrated Catchment Management Plan (ICMP) for the North Central CMA and Central Highlands Water. The Tullaroop catchment provides a range of additional environmental, social, cultural and economic values to communities in central Victoria. It supplies drinking water for the […]

Natural Decisions recently completed a project to better protect the Barham water supply catchment. The work was conducted in partnership with Naturallogic (http://naturallogic.org) and Water Futures (https://waterfutures.net.au). The Barham catchment, in the southern Victorian Otways region, supplies drinking water to the communities of Apollo Bay, Marengo and Skenes Creek, and surrounding rural settlements. A participatory […]

In 2020 Natural Decisions has been pleased to work with Kilter Rural in support of their work to develop environmental accounts for their properties in northern Victoria. We have a long and productive collaboration with Kilter Rural, which extends back to 2004 when they first established their FFL Winlaton farmlands near Lake Boga. On 9000 […]

Higher summer temperatures and greater frequency of extreme temperature events are major climate change related threats in the Mallee. A project, funded by DELWP, Agriculture Victoria and the Mallee CMA, was developed to model yield impacts on irrigated horticulture crops (citrus, grapes and almonds) under current and future (2030, 2050 and 2070) climate scenarios and […]

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Landmark paper published on assessing the net benefits of achieving water quality targets in the southern Great Barrier Reef

What price to protect the Great Barrier Reef?

Natural Decisions farewells Michelle Dickson

Evaluating water quality incentives and partnerships in the Burnett Mary region

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