Media Release
Queensland farmers making significant contribution to Great Barrier Reef plan
Thursday 12 June 2014 (Canberra) - The 2013 Report Card on the Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan shows that the improved land management practices adopted by farmers in reef catchments are making significant progress towards halting and reversing the decline of the quality of water entering the reef. “In 2009, the plan outlined very ambitious targets across a range of management practice indicators to improve the quality of water flowing into the Reef from…