The Barron River Catchment Management Association (BRCMA), operating as Barron Catchment Care, was established in 1995 to identify and implement sustainable land use and catchment management strategies for the Barron River.

The Barron Catchment, one of nine catchments in the Wet Tropics Region of North Queensland, covers the diverse landscape of the northern Atherton Tablelands and a narrow coastal fringe north of Cairns.

The 165km Barron River originates in the rainforest of Mt Hypipamee National Park at approximately 1000 metres and flows northwards through agricultural country to Mareeba’s dry savanna lands, then eastward back into rainforest at Kuranda before plunging 260 metres down the Barron Falls Gorge to the lower floodplain and out to the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.