Natural Decisions is delighted to be partnering with the Burnett-Mary Regional Group and Trop Water to develop the Burnett-Mary Water Quality Improvement Plan (WQIP). The Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) is the peak body for natural resource management (NRM) for a region comprising the Burnett and Mary river catchments and the associated sub catchment areas […]
Posted 24 October 2013 in News
by Geoff Park Natural Decisions has a strong commitment to improving environmental decision-making through delivery of education activities in a number of University programs. This includes teaching at graduate and post-graduate levels at the University of Western Australia and Melbourne University, in a number of courses, across economics, restoration ecology and catchment management. I’ve recently completed two days of […]
Posted 4 October 2013 in News
Natural Decisions has just completed an interesting piece of work examining the feasibility of conserving woodland birds in central Victoria. The woodland dependent bird community is threatened across much of south-eastern Australia, largely from threats such as habitat loss and fragmentation, over grazing and inappropriate fire regimes. An INFFER analysis conducted for the Connecting Country […]
Posted 13 September 2013 in News
The Natural Decisions team is working on a fascinating project for the Bow River in Alberta, Canada.
Posted 22 July 2013 in News
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 […]