Assessing natural capital in North-West Queensland rangelands

Principal Investigator

This project seeks to develop a Rangelands Natural Capital assessment platform, tailored to the extensive grazing lands of north-west Queensland. The platform will enable landholders to interactively explore key natural capital indicators across their property through space and time. It will integrates freely available spatial datasets with field data to visualise trends in ground cover, vegetation, soil, and biodiversity condition. Producers will be able to export simple, easy-to-interpret reports. By providing tailored training and guidance to producers, the platform will build producer capacity to understand, monitor, and demonstrate the condition and value of their natural capital assets — supporting both improved land management and potential participation in carbon, biodiversity, and other ecosystem service markets. The Project is funded by Southern Gulf NRM through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) Climate Smart Agriculture Program.

11 Nov 2025 - 30 Mar 2028

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