BARRON RIVER CATCHMENT CARE
Vision Statement
The diverse background of our members ensures that management strategies are discussed with a broad field of vision and wide range of perspectives.
However, all our members and staff have one thing in common: we want to see the Barron River Catchment at its best; in a healthy condition, fulfilling its habitat- and ecological potential, as well as serving as a home with all its historical and contemporary cultural values and providing sustainable economic opportunities to its communities.
We are striving to continuously improve the catchment to achieve our vision with a combination of community engagement and education, revegetation, river- and creek bank stabilisation, weed management, landscape contouring, clean-ups and through networking with local community groups, government and landholders.
Barron Catchment Care is a not-for-profit organisation, that depends on government-, business- and individual contributions; not only monetary but also in form of volunteer work. There are many ways to be involved by becoming a member:
Members
- can choose to have an input into strategic planning for the catchment by joining the Zone Forum and/ or Catchment Coordinating Committee meetings.
- receive invitations to events where they can be actively involved in hands-on work or educational and networking activities.
- can play an important role in the organisation by contributing with volunteer work that utilises individual skills (i.e. assist with event planning, write articles for social media/ website/ local news, nominate for positions on the BCC board).
Can choose to have an input into strategic planning for the catchment by joining the Zone Forum and/ or Catchment Coordinating Committee meetings.
Receive invitations to events where they can be actively involved in hands-on work or educational and networking activities.
Can play an important role in the organisation by contributing with volunteer work that utilises individual skills (i.e. assist with event planning, write articles for social media/ website/ local news, nominate for positions on the BCC board).
BARRON RIVER CATCHMENT CARE
About Our Coordinators
WHO WE ARE
Current Committee Members
THE CCC IS MADE UP OF:
Voting members
Local government members – one each from the Tablelands Regional Council and the Mareeba Shire Council.
Four ordinary members from each of the Zone Forums
Up to four government employees (state and federal) representing departments with interests in the Barron catchment.
Non-voting members
State and federal parliamentarians whose electorate includes any
part of the Barron catchment.
Role of the CCC: to manage and coordinate the ‘grass roots’
activities of the community and government representatives of
Barron Catchment Care and to integrate the concerns of the three
Zone Forums into whole-of-catchment policy.
MEETS MONTHLY
BARRON RIVER CATCHMENT CARE
Current Catchment Coordinating
Committee Members
Barron Catchment Care members – representing landholders, Traditional Owners, community groups, government agencies and other natural resource users and managers – meet regularly to develop and manage projects focused on improving the health of the catchment, and reducing sediment and contaminants running off the land into the Great Barrier Reef lagoon.
Brian Down
Chair,
Lower Zone Forum
Margaret Cochrane
Vice Chair,
Treasurer
Case Schoorl
Secretary
Paul Novelly
Upper Zone Forum
Position Vacant
Central Zone Forum
Position Vacant
Central Zone Forum
BARRON CATCHMENT CARE CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF THREE COMMUNITY ZONE FORUMS OVERSEEN BY A CATCHMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
Zone Forums
Zone Forum members include representatives from a range of interest groups including local and state government, rural producers, commerce and industry, urban community, conservation, education, recreation, tourism and Indigenous groups. Through the forum activities, all areas of the community have the opportunity for input to the catchment management, following the principals of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM).
BARRON CATCHMENT CARE CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF THREE COMMUNITY ZONE FORUMS OVERSEEN BY A CATCHMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
Zone Forums
Zone Forum members include representatives from a range of interest groups including local and state government, rural producers, commerce and industry, urban community, conservation, education, recreation, tourism and Indigenous groups. Through the forum activities, all areas of the community have the opportunity for input to the catchment management, following the principals of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM).
BARRON CATCHMENT CARE CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF THREE COMMUNITY ZONE FORUMS OVERSEEN BY A CATCHMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
Zone Forums
Zone Forum members include representatives from a range of interest groups including local and state government, rural producers, commerce and industry, urban community, conservation, education, recreation, tourism and Indigenous groups. Through the forum activities, all areas of the community have the opportunity for input to the catchment management, following the principals of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM).
BARRON CATCHMENT CARE CONSISTS OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
ZONE FORUMS OVERSEEN BY A CATCHMENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE.
Zone Forums
Zone Forum members include representatives from a range of interest groups including local
and state government, rural producers, commerce and industry, urban community, conservation,
education, recreation, tourism and Indigenous groups. Through the forum activities, all areas
of the community have the opportunity for input to the catchment management, following the
principals of Integrated Catchment Management (ICM).
UPPER ZONE
Catchment Above
Tinaroo Falls Dam
MEETS MONTHLY
CENTRAL ZONE
Catchment Between Tinaroo
Falls Dam and Barron Falls
MEETS MONTHLY
LOWER ZONE
Catchment Below
Barron Falls
MEETS ON AN AS-NEEDS BASIS
Catchment Above
Tinaroo Falls Dam
MEETS MONTHLY
Catchment Between Tinaroo
Falls Dam and Barron Falls
MEETS MONTHLY
Catchment Below
Barron Falls
MEETS ON AN AS-NEEDS BASIS
Financial Partners
Community Partners
